The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 48Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1894 - American literature |
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... person entering - doubtless another lodger ; this person closed the door and tramped up- stairs behind Tom . Tom found his door in the dark , and entered it and turned up the gas . When he faced about , lightly whistling , he saw the ...
... person entering - doubtless another lodger ; this person closed the door and tramped up- stairs behind Tom . Tom found his door in the dark , and entered it and turned up the gas . When he faced about , lightly whistling , he saw the ...
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... person concerned , either in his own interest or as hired assassin . But who could it be ? That , he must try to find out . The safe was not open , the cash - box was closed , and had three thousand dollars in it . Then robbery was not ...
... person concerned , either in his own interest or as hired assassin . But who could it be ? That , he must try to find out . The safe was not open , the cash - box was closed , and had three thousand dollars in it . Then robbery was not ...
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... person or persons , although he was afraid that she or they would be too smart to venture again into a town where everybody would now be on the watch for a good while to come . Everybody was pitying Tom , he looked so quiet and ...
... person or persons , although he was afraid that she or they would be too smart to venture again into a town where everybody would now be on the watch for a good while to come . Everybody was pitying Tom , he looked so quiet and ...
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... person goes off heart- ily into the country , and yet the following para- dox is true ; namely , that it is city people who are precisely the best fitted for the country . Your average denizen of the country has no appreciation of ...
... person goes off heart- ily into the country , and yet the following para- dox is true ; namely , that it is city people who are precisely the best fitted for the country . Your average denizen of the country has no appreciation of ...
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... person of a less resolutely philanthropic temperament would have been satisfied to pool her good in- tentions toward half - orphans with one or an- other of the charitable institutions designed , directly or incidentally , for their ...
... person of a less resolutely philanthropic temperament would have been satisfied to pool her good in- tentions toward half - orphans with one or an- other of the charitable institutions designed , directly or incidentally , for their ...
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Page 24 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 632 - The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived by the State governments. The Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties.
Page 631 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 320 - War to the last he waged with all The tyrant canker-worms of earth ; Baron and duke, in hold and hall, Cursed the dark hour that gave him birth; He used Rome's harlot...
Page 320 - Cumae's cavern close, The cheeks, with fast and sorrow thin, The rigid front, almost morose, But for the patient hope within, Declare a life whose course hath been Unsullied still, though still severe; Which, through the wavering days of sin, Kept itself icy-chaste and clear. Not wholly such his haggard look When wandering once forlorn he strayed...
Page 606 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 601 - Government is instituted for the common good ; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people ; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men ; Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government ; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it.
Page 234 - ... manners of a slave. Money and fine clothes could not mend these defects or cover them up; they only made them the more glaring and the more pathetic. The poor fellow could not endure the terrors of the white man's parlor, and felt at home and at peace nowhere but in the kitchen. The family pew was a misery to him, yet he could nevermore enter into the solacing refuge of the "nigger gallery" — that was closed to him for good and all.
Page 157 - On the morrow he came back, a little boy. And his teacher (who was God) put him in a class a little higher, and gave him these lessons to learn: Thou shalt do no hurt to any living thing. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not cheat.
Page 234 - It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar October 12. - The Discovery. - It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.