The Overland MonthlySamuel Carson, 1889 |
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... better cause . In some instances it is possible that these venerable impostors really per- suade themselves into believing that they are telling the truth ; so far as their hearers are concerned their sayings are accepted in good faith ...
... better cause . In some instances it is possible that these venerable impostors really per- suade themselves into believing that they are telling the truth ; so far as their hearers are concerned their sayings are accepted in good faith ...
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... better information from books , while the Indian , lacking this essential possession , cannot help his ignorance in many things . Coh - coh - mak presented the former with a curiously shaped stick , with which they wrote in the sand ...
... better information from books , while the Indian , lacking this essential possession , cannot help his ignorance in many things . Coh - coh - mak presented the former with a curiously shaped stick , with which they wrote in the sand ...
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... better news of the prodigal than I had dared hope for him . It was dated from Bacharach , Germany , and went on to say : " I am soon to wed the dearest little woman in the world . Madalene is the granddaughter of an old German baron ...
... better news of the prodigal than I had dared hope for him . It was dated from Bacharach , Germany , and went on to say : " I am soon to wed the dearest little woman in the world . Madalene is the granddaughter of an old German baron ...
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... better than if I had remained . In my last visit , in 1888 , I had this question of the New South constantly in mind in all my observa- tions and in all my conversations with others . Perhaps no one ever wholly frees him- self from the ...
... better than if I had remained . In my last visit , in 1888 , I had this question of the New South constantly in mind in all my observa- tions and in all my conversations with others . Perhaps no one ever wholly frees him- self from the ...
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... better schools any- where than the old preparatory grammar schools of the South . There was no quarreling about religious influence , nor about ornamental and useless studies , nor about salaries of teachers , for all this was decided ...
... better schools any- where than the old preparatory grammar schools of the South . There was no quarreling about religious influence , nor about ornamental and useless studies , nor about salaries of teachers , for all this was decided ...
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Página 112 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...
Página 591 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Página 251 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 131 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Página 295 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Página 82 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 109 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Página 138 - Thy soft response renewing— What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?' Second Voice 'Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Página 552 - This I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God.
Página 138 - The point of one white star is quivering still Deep in the orange light of widening morn Beyond the purple mountains : through a chasm Of wind-divided mist the darker lake Reflects it : now it wanes : it gleams again As the waves fade, and as the burning threads Of woven cloud unravel in pale air : Tis lost ! and through yon peaks of cloud-like snow The roseate sunlight quivers...