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Oliver Wendell Holmes. SIGILLVM VNIVERS CALIFO AT MDCCCLXVI EX LIBRIS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES'S WRITINGS . Poetical Works . 1 vol.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. SIGILLVM VNIVERS CALIFO AT MDCCCLXVI EX LIBRIS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES'S WRITINGS . Poetical Works . 1 vol.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES'S WRITINGS . Poetical Works . 1 vol . 16mo . With Portrait . $ 1.25 . Songs in Many Keys . 1 vol . 16mo . $ 1.25 . Poems . Complete . 1 vol . 32mo . Blue and gold . Portrait . $ 1.00 . Poems ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES'S WRITINGS . Poetical Works . 1 vol . 16mo . With Portrait . $ 1.25 . Songs in Many Keys . 1 vol . 16mo . $ 1.25 . Poems . Complete . 1 vol . 32mo . Blue and gold . Portrait . $ 1.00 . Poems ...
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... would take a picture of the place , a stereoscopic one , if possible , to show how gracefully , how charm- ingly , its group of steeples nestles among the Maryland hills . The town had a poetical look from 74 MY HUNT AFTER " THE CAPTAIN . "
... would take a picture of the place , a stereoscopic one , if possible , to show how gracefully , how charm- ingly , its group of steeples nestles among the Maryland hills . The town had a poetical look from 74 MY HUNT AFTER " THE CAPTAIN . "
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Oliver Wendell Holmes. Maryland hills . The town had a poetical look from a distance , as if seers and dreamers might dwell there . The first sign I read , on enter- ing its long street , might perhaps be consid- ered as confirming my ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Maryland hills . The town had a poetical look from a distance , as if seers and dreamers might dwell there . The first sign I read , on enter- ing its long street , might perhaps be consid- ered as confirming my ...
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... poetical Susquehanna , — the river of Wyoming and of Gertrude , dividing the shores where - - 66 aye those sunny mountains half - way down Would echo flageolet from some romantic town , ” . did not my heart renew its allegiance to the 1 ...
... poetical Susquehanna , — the river of Wyoming and of Gertrude , dividing the shores where - - 66 aye those sunny mountains half - way down Would echo flageolet from some romantic town , ” . did not my heart renew its allegiance to the 1 ...
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Page 377 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet.
Page 175 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 461 - I should advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine were to perish, and only one of a thousand were to survive, and retain his liberty ! One such free man must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves ; and let him propagate his like, and transmit to them what he hath so nobly preserved.
Page 413 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Page 267 - It was so nearly like visiting the battle-field to look over these views, that all the emotions excited by the actual sight of the stained and sordid scene, strewed with rags and wrecks, came back to us, and we buried them in the recesses of our cabinet as we would have buried the mutilated remains of the dead they too vividly represented.
Page 266 - Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations.
Page 358 - Go to the head of the Class, Josselyn," said the venerable Patriarch. The successful Inmate did as he was told, but in a very rough way, pushing against two or three of the Class. "How is this?" said the Patriarch. "You told me to go up jostlin',