American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 131839 |
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... less write , reasons , merely to satisfy the party decided against , or to acquaint the bar or the public of his extensive erudi- tion . There is more occasion for , and the less apology for the lack of , despatch of business before him ...
... less write , reasons , merely to satisfy the party decided against , or to acquaint the bar or the public of his extensive erudi- tion . There is more occasion for , and the less apology for the lack of , despatch of business before him ...
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... less over cases , write shorter and fewer opinions , and read none , and thus put things on a better footing ? Is it not intolerable , that he should sit and hear long - spun arguments on questions of practice , or upon any mere ...
... less over cases , write shorter and fewer opinions , and read none , and thus put things on a better footing ? Is it not intolerable , that he should sit and hear long - spun arguments on questions of practice , or upon any mere ...
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... less apology for reading or conning one aloud , long or short . If written , hand it to the clerk . The parties can read for themselves , and the reporter can publish it . This reading of deci- sions , with great effort , to an audience ...
... less apology for reading or conning one aloud , long or short . If written , hand it to the clerk . The parties can read for themselves , and the reporter can publish it . This reading of deci- sions , with great effort , to an audience ...
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... less than four or five hundred . Still , the number of litigated causes actually dis- posed of , the past year in it , is probably more than double the number consummated in the superior court , and four times the number perfected in ...
... less than four or five hundred . Still , the number of litigated causes actually dis- posed of , the past year in it , is probably more than double the number consummated in the superior court , and four times the number perfected in ...
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... less about subserving the ends of justice , than of returning home rich with the spoils of extortion . When the infection broke out , he was not slow to flee from the post of danger ; but for reasons known to himself , did not choose to ...
... less about subserving the ends of justice , than of returning home rich with the spoils of extortion . When the infection broke out , he was not slow to flee from the post of danger ; but for reasons known to himself , did not choose to ...
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Page 376 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 13 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Page 13 - I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My...
Page 554 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union : on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched it may be in fraternal blood...
Page 77 - THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of stars ; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars.
Page 96 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 121 - The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 13 - Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. 'They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 287 - THE time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves ; whether they are to have any property they can call their own ; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.
Page 97 - Your nuts in oak-tree cleft? — 'For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree; For wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms, And cold mushrooms; For wine we follow Bacchus through the earth; Great God of breathless cups and chirping mirth! Come hither, lady fair, and joined be To our mad minstrelsy!