Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volumen96

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Harper's Magazine Company, 1898
Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
 

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Página 39 - ... the Jaenesville miners were rescued alive from the pit after they had been entombed there and given up for dead for eighteen days, their rescuers and all the mining population of Jaenesville marched to the house of the owner of the mines at two o'clock in the morning, and, standing in the snow, sang the Doxology, and a man who was there told me he hid himself in the house and cried. If he had been at St. Paul's Cathedral he would have had to hide himself again, for there were ten thousand people...
Página 629 - For this reason I have greatly wished to see a plan adopted, by which the arts, sciences, and belles-lettres could be taught in their fullest extent, thereby embracing all the advantages of European tuition, with the means of acquiring the liberal knowledge, which is necessary to qualify our citizens for the exigencies of public as well as private life...
Página 94 - Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Página 195 - Then wakes the power which in the age of iron Burst forth to curb the great, and raise the low. Mark, where she stands, around her form I draw The awful circle of our solemn Church! Set but a foot within that holy ground, And on thy head — yea, though it wore a crown — I launch the curse of Rome!
Página 308 - On the contrary, we can perceive that it still formed the master-principle of his soul, ' the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night...
Página 148 - Who will now proceed to say the finest thing that has ever been said ?" It was quite involuntary and unavoidable, for the members lacked that fluent social genius without which a club is impossible. It was a congress of oracles on the one hand, and of curious listeners upon the other.
Página 148 - Sahara of silence with a solemn "saying," to which, after due pause, the honorable member for Blackberry Pastures responded by some keen and graphic observation ; while the Olympian host, anxious that so much good material should be spun into something, beamed smiling encouragement upon all parties. But the conversation became more and more staccato.
Página 297 - The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River, and such principal streams of it as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce.
Página 30 - ... the already swollen avenues of traffic became impassable, and it was only possible to move about by going on foot. When a stranger asked how long it would take to reach a certain point, he was told, ten minutes if he walked, or forty minutes if he took a cab. The decorations were not beautiful, and, with the exception of those in St. James's Street, there was no harmony of design nor scheme of color, and a great opportunity was lost. There was probably no other time when so much 277 money was...
Página 536 - Badeni government came down with a crash; there was a popular outbreak or two in Vienna; there were three or four days of furious rioting in Prague, followed by the establishing there of martial law; the Jews and Germans were harried and plundered, and their houses destroyed; in other Bohemian towns there was rioting — in some cases the Germans being the rioters, in others the Czechs — and in all cases the Jew had to roast, no matter which side he was on.

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