Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2Chas. Alexander, 1838 |
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... opened - the fire blazed brightly , and developed the outline of the chief - young Wee - sau took deliberate aim - and his victim fell . 46 The war whoop resounded through the woods . The young Indians rushed to the spot ; and the mur ...
... opened - the fire blazed brightly , and developed the outline of the chief - young Wee - sau took deliberate aim - and his victim fell . 46 The war whoop resounded through the woods . The young Indians rushed to the spot ; and the mur ...
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... opened the door , and passing a group of surprised attendants , entered the parlor , where my uncle was sitting alone . " My Lord ! " said I , with vehemence , " it is idle at such a time to talk of exclusion . I will be heard . The ...
... opened the door , and passing a group of surprised attendants , entered the parlor , where my uncle was sitting alone . " My Lord ! " said I , with vehemence , " it is idle at such a time to talk of exclusion . I will be heard . The ...
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... opened with a sudden jerk on its crazy hinges , and slammed violently against the inside wall . The room was of some strange angular formation , terminating in front by the ceiling running from the centre at about an angle of fifty ...
... opened with a sudden jerk on its crazy hinges , and slammed violently against the inside wall . The room was of some strange angular formation , terminating in front by the ceiling running from the centre at about an angle of fifty ...
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... opened for passengers . Thanksgiving Day . 1801 1814 1815 1816 Died , in Philadelphia , aged 78 , Colonel Francis Wade , of Montgomery County , Pennsylvania . Buffalo attacked by United States Dragoons . Lieutenant Totman killed . The ...
... opened for passengers . Thanksgiving Day . 1801 1814 1815 1816 Died , in Philadelphia , aged 78 , Colonel Francis Wade , of Montgomery County , Pennsylvania . Buffalo attacked by United States Dragoons . Lieutenant Totman killed . The ...
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... opened in Philadelphia . Ship Rapid , Captain Dorr , of Boston , with 280,000 dollars in specie , lost off coast of New Holland ; crew saved . Died , at Philadelphia , John Dennie , littérateur . The first Newspaper in South Carolina ...
... opened in Philadelphia . Ship Rapid , Captain Dorr , of Boston , with 280,000 dollars in specie , lost off coast of New Holland ; crew saved . Died , at Philadelphia , John Dennie , littérateur . The first Newspaper in South Carolina ...
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Page 47 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...
Page 101 - But Jesus said, Forbid him not : for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
Page 148 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and...
Page 120 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Page 339 - You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 122 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 101 - Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be known.
Page 45 - But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 253 - ... are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness ; for the longer it possesseth a man, the more he will delight in it ; and the older he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernel of the nut.
Page 209 - It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.