Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National Interests, Volume 4G. P. Putnam & Son., 1869 |
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... hour on the flat shore . Officers and men were cheerful . Colonel Shaw and his staff sat on a stretcher . A few officers were grouped on a couple of rubber blankets and the men lounged in a long irregular line . Started at last ! We ...
... hour on the flat shore . Officers and men were cheerful . Colonel Shaw and his staff sat on a stretcher . A few officers were grouped on a couple of rubber blankets and the men lounged in a long irregular line . Started at last ! We ...
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... hour . It was soon to be the proudest boast of the survivors that they " charged with Shaw at Wagner . " A narrow strip of land stretched away for sixteen hundred yards , to the point where Wagner faced us , with two of its bastions and ...
... hour . It was soon to be the proudest boast of the survivors that they " charged with Shaw at Wagner . " A narrow strip of land stretched away for sixteen hundred yards , to the point where Wagner faced us , with two of its bastions and ...
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... hours , eight hours ( ten hours at first ) , without any waking up during the interval . Think of that , my friend , who art glad if thou canst coax four hours of forgetfulness out of twice that number of drinks ; has that no attrac ...
... hours , eight hours ( ten hours at first ) , without any waking up during the interval . Think of that , my friend , who art glad if thou canst coax four hours of forgetfulness out of twice that number of drinks ; has that no attrac ...
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... hour , the evening Sunday service comprises the order usually fol- lowed in a Presbyterian church , and the chaplain of the asylum preaches a ser- mon of about thirty minutes . There is a " Mason and Hamlin organ " in the chapel ...
... hour , the evening Sunday service comprises the order usually fol- lowed in a Presbyterian church , and the chaplain of the asylum preaches a ser- mon of about thirty minutes . There is a " Mason and Hamlin organ " in the chapel ...
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... hours fleet , And day again comes on . The day of life is done ! And set the sun ! Eyes dim to fairest sights that earth can ... hour if I could . I am in haste to get out of Jersey . A country where there is no more honor burns my feet ...
... hours fleet , And day again comes on . The day of life is done ! And set the sun ! Eyes dim to fairest sights that earth can ... hour if I could . I am in haste to get out of Jersey . A country where there is no more honor burns my feet ...
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Page 340 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 515 - There is a river in the ocean: in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Page 524 - The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost.
Page 557 - The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in Greece which has impressed its image on those faultless productions, whose very fragments are the despair of modern art, and has propagated impulses which cannot cease, through a thousand channels of manifest or imperceptible operation, to ennoble and delight mankind until the extinction of the race.
Page 202 - Government, to administer the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy...
Page 38 - The children of foreigners, found in great numbers in our populous cities and towns, and in the vicinity of our public works, are too often deprived of the advantages of our system of public education, in consequence of prejudices arising from difference of language or religion. It ought never to be forgotten, that the public welfare is as deeply concerned in their education as in that of our own children. I do not hesitate, therefore, to recommend the establishment of schools in which they may be...
Page 301 - The original charter title was the " Society of the Hospital in the City of New York in America...
Page 128 - THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT; Or Philosophy of the Divine Operation in the Redemption Of Man.— Being volume second of "The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation.
Page 432 - Ah, there was a woman !" simply makes us uncomfortably jealous ; we feel like exclaiming, with a certain asperity, that there are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.
Page 523 - But it may be asked : What has all this to do with the enormous American turnover ? The author thinks that it has everything to do with it.