The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 57Atlantic Monthly Company, 1886 |
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... interest is hardly served by the conditions which enhance its picturesque aspect . The roofs of a few log cabins at long intervals peer out from among Tobacco scanty orchards and fields . flourishes down the sides of steep funnel ...
... interest is hardly served by the conditions which enhance its picturesque aspect . The roofs of a few log cabins at long intervals peer out from among Tobacco scanty orchards and fields . flourishes down the sides of steep funnel ...
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... interest , - self- preservation they considered it , that despotic controller of conduct , in an atti- tude towards slavery which the more disinterested world had outgrown and come to execrate . To North Carolina belongs the sorry honor ...
... interest , - self- preservation they considered it , that despotic controller of conduct , in an atti- tude towards slavery which the more disinterested world had outgrown and come to execrate . To North Carolina belongs the sorry honor ...
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... interest in Richard . " At Heidelberg or Leipsic : it is not decided . " " And meanwhile what's to be your route of travel ? " " We shall go to Sweden and Nor- way , and perhaps to Russia . I don't know why , but it has been one of the ...
... interest in Richard . " At Heidelberg or Leipsic : it is not decided . " " And meanwhile what's to be your route of travel ? " " We shall go to Sweden and Nor- way , and perhaps to Russia . I don't know why , but it has been one of the ...
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... interest of England to dissolve the alliance between America and France , he declared himself ready to begin the negotiations without waiting for the recognition of independence , provided that Oswald's commission should speak of the ...
... interest of England to dissolve the alliance between America and France , he declared himself ready to begin the negotiations without waiting for the recognition of independence , provided that Oswald's commission should speak of the ...
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... interest in regaining the territories between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi , the forts in which were already held by American soldiers , and she relinquished all claim upon it . The Mississippi River thus became the dividing line ...
... interest in regaining the territories between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi , the forts in which were already held by American soldiers , and she relinquished all claim upon it . The Mississippi River thus became the dividing line ...
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Page 465 - Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 463 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe : You call me — misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
Page 311 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 466 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Page 254 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 67 - That it is now necessary to declare, that, to report any opinion, or pretended opinion, of his Majesty upon any bill, or other proceeding, depending in either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the members, is a high crime and misdemeanor, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the constitution of this country...
Page 467 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Page 700 - The fact is — and I will not disguise it in the least, for I think I ought not — the fact is, I most eagerly aspire after future eminence in literature ; my whole soul burns most ardently for it, and every earthly thought centres in it.
Page 463 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 179 - The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation.