The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 29Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1847 - American periodicals |
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... seemed to repel such sympathy rather than to seek it . But the most striking feature of his religious character was , that notwithstanding his retired and almost unsocial habits , he never shrunk from what he recognized as duty . Show ...
... seemed to repel such sympathy rather than to seek it . But the most striking feature of his religious character was , that notwithstanding his retired and almost unsocial habits , he never shrunk from what he recognized as duty . Show ...
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... seemed at first to some to be indicative of an unfeeling heart , having but little love for the social scenes and pleasures of life . But nothing could be farther from the truth . He was of a social disposition , and often indulged in ...
... seemed at first to some to be indicative of an unfeeling heart , having but little love for the social scenes and pleasures of life . But nothing could be farther from the truth . He was of a social disposition , and often indulged in ...
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... seemed disposed of themselves to resign their liberties , had he not at the same time made an attempt upon their religion ; and he might even have succeeded in surmounting at once both their liber- ties and their religion , had he ...
... seemed disposed of themselves to resign their liberties , had he not at the same time made an attempt upon their religion ; and he might even have succeeded in surmounting at once both their liber- ties and their religion , had he ...
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... seemed sacred in the eyes of Englishmen , should be wantonly set aside . It was quite enough , that , after a year's intermission , the obnoxious declaration should be obstinately republished . But , when not content with insult , the ...
... seemed sacred in the eyes of Englishmen , should be wantonly set aside . It was quite enough , that , after a year's intermission , the obnoxious declaration should be obstinately republished . But , when not content with insult , the ...
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... seemed secure and confirmed by the union of Austria and France , in the persons of Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette ; behold the issue ! It was a sub- lime lesson upon the instability of human grandeur . In that little narrow ...
... seemed secure and confirmed by the union of Austria and France , in the persons of Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette ; behold the issue ! It was a sub- lime lesson upon the instability of human grandeur . In that little narrow ...
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Page 283 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Page 96 - Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a stern last morning.
Page 372 - APOLOGY Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Tax not my sloth that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought. There was never mystery But 'tis figured in the flowers; Was never secret history But birds tell it in the bowers.
Page 162 - ... close at hand were three men with rifles lying across their knees. The foremost of these, a tall, strong figure, with a clear blue eye and an open, intelligent face, might very well represent that race of restless and intrepid pioneers whose axes and rifles have opened a path from the Alleghanies to the western prairies.
Page 372 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 388 - Encyclopaedia of Geography ; Comprising a complete Description of the Earth : Exhibiting its Relation to the Heavenly Bodies, its Physical Structure, the Natural History of each Country, and the Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, and Civil and Social State of All Nations. Second Edition ; with 82 Maps, and upwards of 1,000 other Woodcuts. 8vo. price 60s. Neale.— The Closing Scene; or, Christianity and Infidelity contrasted in the Last Hours of Remarkable Persons.
Page 265 - ... public faces and deportments of persons, and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters. But such being the workmanship of God, as He doth hang the greatest weight upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof.
Page 388 - Americana, and there the outline, at least, would be found, and reference made to those works which treat at large upon the subject. It was not strange, therefore, that the work was popular. But in fourteen years, great events occur. The last fourteen years have been full of them, and great discoveries have been made in sciences and the arts ; and great men have, by death, commended their names and deeds to the fidelity of the biographer, so that the Encyclopedia that approached perfection in 1832;...
Page 102 - CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A Selection of the choicest productions of English Authors, from the earliest to the present time. Connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Forming two large imperial octavo volumes of TOO pages each, double column letter press ; with upwards of 300 elegant Illustrations.
Page 95 - I say, like the stertorous, unquiet slumber of sick Life, is heard in Heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful are there ; men are dying there, men are being born ; men are praying, — on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night.