Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... Miss Clara Berwick or her representative . ” " That will do , " said Toussaint . The two gentlemen were called in , and in five minutes the proper paper was drawn up , witnessed , and signed , and Mr. Jones gave a receipt for the box ...
... Miss Clara Berwick or her representative . ” " That will do , " said Toussaint . The two gentlemen were called in , and in five minutes the proper paper was drawn up , witnessed , and signed , and Mr. Jones gave a receipt for the box ...
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... Miss Aylesford of Chicago , and is the niece of my present wife . ” " I understand all that , " said Charlton ; and then , as the thought occurred to him that he might make the connection useful , he rose , and , offering his hand ...
... Miss Aylesford of Chicago , and is the niece of my present wife . ” " I understand all that , " said Charlton ; and then , as the thought occurred to him that he might make the connection useful , he rose , and , offering his hand ...
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... Miss Aylesford , who at the time was on a visit to New York , a girl of eighteen , handsome , accomplished , and worth half a million . In vain had her brother tried to open her eyes to Pompilard's character as an inveterate fortune ...
... Miss Aylesford , who at the time was on a visit to New York , a girl of eighteen , handsome , accomplished , and worth half a million . In vain had her brother tried to open her eyes to Pompilard's character as an inveterate fortune ...
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... from the bogs and fens of Ireland and Scotland . " * * These passages are from a speech of President Davis at Jackson , Miss . , Colonel Delancy Hyde revelled in those genealogical invec- tives of A DESCENDANT OF THE CAVALIERS . 61.
... from the bogs and fens of Ireland and Scotland . " * * These passages are from a speech of President Davis at Jackson , Miss . , Colonel Delancy Hyde revelled in those genealogical invec- tives of A DESCENDANT OF THE CAVALIERS . 61.
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... cease your trifling ! " interposed the lady . Vance picked up from the deck a little sleeve - button of gold and coral . It had been dropped in the child's fall . " This must belong to Miss Clara , " said 94 PECULIAR .
... cease your trifling ! " interposed the lady . Vance picked up from the deck a little sleeve - button of gold and coral . It had been dropped in the child's fall . " This must belong to Miss Clara , " said 94 PECULIAR .
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Términos y frases comunes
Abolitionist arms Artful Dodger asked Aylesford barouche beautiful believe Berwick Berwick family Blake called Captain carriage Charles Charlton child Clara Colonel Delancy Hyde Colonel Hyde colored cried cui bono damned Yankee dear door dress drew Esha Estelle exclaimed eyes face father gentleman Gentry girl give hair hand heard heart hour hunderd hundred dollars Josephine Kenrick kiss Kunnle Laura letter look Madame Volney Maloney Massa minutes mother mulatto negro never nigger Number once Onslow Orleans passed Pat Maloney Peek Perdita person pocket Pompilard Pontiac poor quadroon Quattles Ratcliff replied returned Ripper Robson seemed Semmes slave slavery soon spirit Street suddenly tell thar thought thousand dollars tion told took Toussaint Vance walked wife Wigman window Winslow woman words wounded Yankee وو
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Página 105 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 108 - And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog And smote him, thus.
Página 98 - ... 5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter. 6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
Página 499 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Página 151 - Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly clight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul the body form doth take : For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Página 60 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 69 - ... at this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man...
Página 412 - Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. 162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. 163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgments.
Página 46 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near ;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait.
Página 413 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.