The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 54Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1859 - American periodicals |
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... whole is a landscape of gentle slopes and copses . The picture has the expression of gaiety throughout , and the engraving is splendidly executed . It is fresh from the burin of HOLL , not having yet been pub- lished in England ...
... whole is a landscape of gentle slopes and copses . The picture has the expression of gaiety throughout , and the engraving is splendidly executed . It is fresh from the burin of HOLL , not having yet been pub- lished in England ...
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... whole Island of Man- hattan of the Indians for twenty - four dollars ' worth of cheap trinkets and utensils . In the earliest deed on record in the city , ( about 1635 , ) Abraham Van Steenwyck conveyed to Anthony Van Trees a lot. 1859 ...
... whole Island of Man- hattan of the Indians for twenty - four dollars ' worth of cheap trinkets and utensils . In the earliest deed on record in the city , ( about 1635 , ) Abraham Van Steenwyck conveyed to Anthony Van Trees a lot. 1859 ...
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... , and dissipation . The whole of the interior , galleries and all , was destroyed , leaving the bare walls and roof . It is stated that a Mr. - Oothout obtained permission from Lord Howe to take down the 1859. ] 13 New - York Illustrated .
... , and dissipation . The whole of the interior , galleries and all , was destroyed , leaving the bare walls and roof . It is stated that a Mr. - Oothout obtained permission from Lord Howe to take down the 1859. ] 13 New - York Illustrated .
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... whole starry system of society , government , and religion , all the man- ners and instincts of public and private life . The world's history is but an account of the progress of man through a series of civilizations , as through a ...
... whole starry system of society , government , and religion , all the man- ners and instincts of public and private life . The world's history is but an account of the progress of man through a series of civilizations , as through a ...
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... whole streets . The e man's ey eye at length brightened , and he answered de- cidedly in a whisper : I'll do it . ' Then Mr. Krafft took his patient into the street , where the police saved them from interruption , and began to dig away ...
... whole streets . The e man's ey eye at length brightened , and he answered de- cidedly in a whisper : I'll do it . ' Then Mr. Krafft took his patient into the street , where the police saved them from interruption , and began to dig away ...
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Page 580 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 216 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 647 - I shall bo soon ; Beyond the shining and the shading, Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home ! Sweet hope ! Lord, tarry not, but come.
Page 531 - Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations, in all difficult cases of his practice. In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton. Between two of the bookcases hung a looking-glass presenting its high and dusty plate within a tarnished gilt frame.
Page 426 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 540 - O gifts with rain and sunshine sent! The bounty overruns our due, The fulness shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still.
Page 531 - ... little better than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body.
Page 81 - Three Visits to Madagascar during the Years 1853— 1854 — 1856. Including a Journey to the Capital, with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People. By the Rev. WILLIAM ELLIS, FHS, Author of "Polynesian Researehes.
Page 321 - But if the moral pestilence that rises with them, and, in the eternal laws of outraged Nature, is inseparable from them, could be made discernible too, how terrible the revelation ! Then should we see depravity, impiety, drunkenness, theft, murder, and a long train of nameless sins against the natural affections and repulsions of mankind, overhanging the devoted spots, and creeping on, to blight the innocent and spread contagion among the pure.
Page 231 - And what adds to my mortification is, that this post, after the last ships went past it, was held contrary to my wishes and opinion, as I conceived it to be a hazardous one; but, it having been determined on by a full council of general officers, and a resolution of Congress having been received strongly expressive of their desire, that the channel of the river, which we had been laboring to stop for a long time at that place, might be obstructed, if possible, and knowing that this could not be done,...