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Page 1 - picture of human manners, will outlive the 'Palace of the Escurial, and the imperial ' eagle of the House of Austria.
Page 206 - The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, — One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Page 106 - Upon a white horse, With rings on her fingers And bells on her toes ; And she shall have music Wherever she goes.
Page 16 - The training of her children was her work. She watched over them, inspired them, led them, governed them; her will impelled them; her word to them, as to her servants, was law. She reaped the reward. If she admired them, she was too wise to let them know it; but her sympathy and tenderness were theirs always and they worshipped her.
Page 92 - Union, which he has rejoiced to see fully restored in his time, he has never wittingly written a line which he did not hope might tend to bring about a better understanding between the North and the South, and finally lead to a more perfect Union.
Page 89 - ... him; that she had loved him ever since they had gone to school together in the little schoolhouse in the woods.
Page 189 - WE know a man who, in the midst of the fever of restlessness and of ambition which racks society in our times, continues to fill his humble part in the world without a murmur, and who still preserves, so to speak, the taste for poverty. With no other fortune than a small clerkship, which enables him to live within the narrow limits which separate competence from want, our philosopher looks from the height of his attic upon society as upon a sea, of which he neither covets the riches nor fears the...
Page 89 - Don't come without a furlough; for if you don't come honorable, I won't marry you." The date of the letter was not more than two ix weeks earlier than that of the battle in which her lover fell, and the natural comment was, "So, he got his furlough through a bullet." This idea took possession of me, and in about ten days I had written "Marse Chan.
Page 82 - In the simple plantation homes was a life more beautiful and charming than any that the gorgeous palaces would reveal," he insisted. "Its best presentation was that which had the divine beauty of truth.
Page 17 - I gave him the comfort of my earnest belief in some other interpretation, together with several spare " eighteen-pences," as he called them, for which he seemed humbly grateful. And as I rode away I heard him calling across the fence to his wife, who was standing in the door of a small whitewashed cabin, near which we had been standing for some time : " Judy, have Marse Chan's dawg got home...