The New England Magazine, Volumen15New England Magazine Company, 1897 |
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... hundred years ago , or even fifty . Medicine strides with every decade . What is that bird trying to say — or rather what does he not say ? Why , Plato would have given all the nightingales of his academic grove for that singer . See ...
... hundred years ago , or even fifty . Medicine strides with every decade . What is that bird trying to say — or rather what does he not say ? Why , Plato would have given all the nightingales of his academic grove for that singer . See ...
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... hundred and fifty feet high and six feet in diameter at the base were not uncommon ; and Doctor Dwight , in his " Travels in New England , " mentions a white pine in Lancaster , N. H. , which measured two hundred and sixty- four feet ...
... hundred and fifty feet high and six feet in diameter at the base were not uncommon ; and Doctor Dwight , in his " Travels in New England , " mentions a white pine in Lancaster , N. H. , which measured two hundred and sixty- four feet ...
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... hundred pounds yearly ; and his com- mission authorized him to view and survey " all our said Woods and Tim- ber , " and to mark such trees as were suitable for the use of the navy , and to keep a register of them . It also required all ...
... hundred pounds yearly ; and his com- mission authorized him to view and survey " all our said Woods and Tim- ber , " and to mark such trees as were suitable for the use of the navy , and to keep a register of them . It also required all ...
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... hundred men , very few white servants and a hundred and fifty blacks . " Away from these restricted settlements , for many a green and leafy mile of hill and valley , stretched the " King's Woods , " dense with noble trees and rich in ...
... hundred men , very few white servants and a hundred and fifty blacks . " Away from these restricted settlements , for many a green and leafy mile of hill and valley , stretched the " King's Woods , " dense with noble trees and rich in ...
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... hundred pounds , from which , however , he was required to pay his four deputies . In the charters of towns granted during his administration and that of Gov. John Wentworth , who was also Surveyor of the King's Woods in North America ...
... hundred pounds , from which , however , he was required to pay his four deputies . In the charters of towns granted during his administration and that of Gov. John Wentworth , who was also Surveyor of the King's Woods in North America ...
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Página 416 - I'd rather rove with Edmund there, Than reign our English queen.' 'If, maiden, thou wouldst wend with me, To leave both tower and town, Thou first must guess what life lead we, That dwell by dale and down. And if thou canst that riddle read, As read full well you may, Then to the greenwood shalt thou speed, As blithe as Queen of May.' Yet sung she, 'Brignall banks are fair, And Greta woods are green; I'd rather rove with Edmund there, Than reign our English queen.
Página 92 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 114 - At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful painted window, which was made by an apprentice out of the pieces of glass which had been rejected by his master. It is so far superior to every other in the church, that, according to the tradition the vanquished artist killed himself from mortification.
Página 216 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken ; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Página 665 - I list no more the tuck of drum, No more the trumpet hear ; But when the beetle sounds his hum, My comrades take the spear.
Página 114 - Sir Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Página 538 - A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart ; It seemed that Nature could not raise A plant in any secret place, In quaking bog, on snowy hill, Beneath the grass that shades the rill, Under the snow, between the rocks, In damp fn-lds known to bird and fox.
Página 293 - I'm with my comrades met, Beneath the greenwood bough, What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now. CHORUS. " Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer queen.
Página 520 - And by your palfrey good, I read you for a ranger sworn To keep the king's greenwood." " A ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Página 584 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.