American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 42Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1853 |
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... observation and meditation . Elevated above the world around , I looked down upon its teeming life and activity ; off over its boundless fields , now rich with the harvest ; upon its mills and huge factories ; upon a white monument here ...
... observation and meditation . Elevated above the world around , I looked down upon its teeming life and activity ; off over its boundless fields , now rich with the harvest ; upon its mills and huge factories ; upon a white monument here ...
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... observation of a similar phenomenon at his own residence , and ended by declaring that the Day of Judgment must be at hand . I was somewhat alarmed at these reports , although I did not heed his conclusion , as he was a Millerite , and ...
... observation of a similar phenomenon at his own residence , and ended by declaring that the Day of Judgment must be at hand . I was somewhat alarmed at these reports , although I did not heed his conclusion , as he was a Millerite , and ...
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... observed at Lima , at San Fran- cisco , and Astoria ; and by a dispatch over the Bhering Straits and Asiatic Line we ... observation . I did not understand them , and I do not now know why the human race was not crushed and buried in the ...
... observed at Lima , at San Fran- cisco , and Astoria ; and by a dispatch over the Bhering Straits and Asiatic Line we ... observation . I did not understand them , and I do not now know why the human race was not crushed and buried in the ...
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... observations may have been erroneous , and when I point out what to my mind seemed errors , to yours they may appear only as the workings of a lofty and unbending spirit . ' He had formerly been in the military service of the Sultan ...
... observations may have been erroneous , and when I point out what to my mind seemed errors , to yours they may appear only as the workings of a lofty and unbending spirit . ' He had formerly been in the military service of the Sultan ...
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... observed it from the moment of his entry on the premises ; and my first impulse was to attribute it to superstitious fear - not so bad a guess , either , for even a well - educated man , if his imagination were at all susceptible ...
... observed it from the moment of his entry on the premises ; and my first impulse was to attribute it to superstitious fear - not so bad a guess , either , for even a well - educated man , if his imagination were at all susceptible ...
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