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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The astronomer reads a new page in the heavens with the New Year ; indeed
with every returning night ; and , to the observant eye there is a new heaven and
a new earth ' with every revolving sun . But every body feels it on the New Year .
The astronomer reads a new page in the heavens with the New Year ; indeed
with every returning night ; and , to the observant eye there is a new heaven and
a new earth ' with every revolving sun . But every body feels it on the New Year .
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Alice had listened with a tearless eye and bursting heart ; but when she thought
of this darling brother , with all his noble ... Like others similarly circumstanced ,
she had often sought her mirror ; but it was only to see if her tell - tale eyes too ...
Alice had listened with a tearless eye and bursting heart ; but when she thought
of this darling brother , with all his noble ... Like others similarly circumstanced ,
she had often sought her mirror ; but it was only to see if her tell - tale eyes too ...
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in the face , the lady casts her eyes down , while the gentleman puts his right
hand to the left side of his waistcoat and shows his teeth . The motion is very
pretty when gracefully done , and seldom fails of bringing a little color into the
lady's face ...
in the face , the lady casts her eyes down , while the gentleman puts his right
hand to the left side of his waistcoat and shows his teeth . The motion is very
pretty when gracefully done , and seldom fails of bringing a little color into the
lady's face ...
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... concerns they are remarkably quick - witted , and perceive whatever is for their
advantage in the twinkling of an eye . ... turbans over their eyes and scratch their
heads with all the earnestness men ' usually show when they are absorbed in ...
... concerns they are remarkably quick - witted , and perceive whatever is for their
advantage in the twinkling of an eye . ... turbans over their eyes and scratch their
heads with all the earnestness men ' usually show when they are absorbed in ...
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All this time the people of the United States were looking with a wishful eye upon
this vast territory . They did not pretend to have any right to it , yet as they already
owned much more land than they knew what to do with , it was thought wise to ...
All this time the people of the United States were looking with a wishful eye upon
this vast territory . They did not pretend to have any right to it , yet as they already
owned much more land than they knew what to do with , it was thought wise to ...
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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.
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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;...
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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.
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| Title | The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 29 The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Charles Fenno Hoffman |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew |
| Published | 1847 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2007 |
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