The Magazine of History: With Notes and Queries. Extra numbers, Tema 133,Volumen34 -Tema 140,Volumen35W. Abbatt., 1928 |
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... head of his profession , and this same knowledge made him master of the situation when he came to mold into action the stirred impulses of the people . I felt myself studying this strange , quaint , great man with keen interest . A ...
... head of his profession , and this same knowledge made him master of the situation when he came to mold into action the stirred impulses of the people . I felt myself studying this strange , quaint , great man with keen interest . A ...
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... head inclined forward and downward . His hair is wiry black , his eyes are dark gray ; his smile is frank , sincere , and winning . Like most American gentlemen , he is loose and careless in dress , turns down his flapping white collars ...
... head inclined forward and downward . His hair is wiry black , his eyes are dark gray ; his smile is frank , sincere , and winning . Like most American gentlemen , he is loose and careless in dress , turns down his flapping white collars ...
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... head cocoanut shaped and somewhat too small for such a stature , covered with rough , uncombed and un- combable hair , that stands out in every direction at once ; a face furrowed , wrinkled , and indented , as though it had been ...
... head cocoanut shaped and somewhat too small for such a stature , covered with rough , uncombed and un- combable hair , that stands out in every direction at once ; a face furrowed , wrinkled , and indented , as though it had been ...
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... head was long and tall from the base of the brain and the eyebrow , " his forehead big and narrow , but inclining backward as it rose . The diameter of his head from ear to ear was six and a half inches and from front to back eight ...
... head was long and tall from the base of the brain and the eyebrow , " his forehead big and narrow , but inclining backward as it rose . The diameter of his head from ear to ear was six and a half inches and from front to back eight ...
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... head . Many likenesses represent his face well enough , but none that I have ever seen do justice to the awkwardness and ungainliness of his figure . His feet , hanging loosely to his ankles , were prominent objects , but his hands were ...
... head . Many likenesses represent his face well enough , but none that I have ever seen do justice to the awkwardness and ungainliness of his figure . His feet , hanging loosely to his ankles , were prominent objects , but his hands were ...
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Página 35 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Página 34 - There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. o CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O Captain 1 my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart 1 heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Página 9 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Página 36 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly- earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Página 34 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Página 35 - Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass, Passing the yellow-spear'd wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows...
Página 36 - You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier! You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please...
Página 38 - And took both with the same unwavering mood ; Till, as he came on light from darkling days, And seemed to touch the goal from where he stood, A felon hand, between the goal and him, Reached from behind his back, a trigger prest, — And those perplexed and patient eyes were dim, Those gaunt...
Página 185 - How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead ; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity...
Página 184 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God. and true.