The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 15Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1840 |
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... trees walking , ' and its incidents come like ' certain strange things to our ears . ' It was a period characterized by strong individuality ; by gigantic virtues and gigantic crimes ; by picturesque institutions and fantastic customs ...
... trees walking , ' and its incidents come like ' certain strange things to our ears . ' It was a period characterized by strong individuality ; by gigantic virtues and gigantic crimes ; by picturesque institutions and fantastic customs ...
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... trees , the growth of innumerable years , with the clambering plants that were their decoration , are swal- lowed up and disappear in the turbid current . But the end is not yet . Following the stream downward , you will at last find ...
... trees , the growth of innumerable years , with the clambering plants that were their decoration , are swal- lowed up and disappear in the turbid current . But the end is not yet . Following the stream downward , you will at last find ...
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... tree - top he lies , Let the spear be poised quick , or good - bye to our prize . Down it darts -to the blow our best efforts are bent , And a white bubbling streak shows its rapid descent ; We grasp it , as upward it shoots through the ...
... tree - top he lies , Let the spear be poised quick , or good - bye to our prize . Down it darts -to the blow our best efforts are bent , And a white bubbling streak shows its rapid descent ; We grasp it , as upward it shoots through the ...
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... trees live ; At once they promise , and at once they give : So sweet the air , so moderate the clime , " None sickly lives , or dies before his time . Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncursed , To shew how all things were ...
... trees live ; At once they promise , and at once they give : So sweet the air , so moderate the clime , " None sickly lives , or dies before his time . Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncursed , To shew how all things were ...
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... tree to be executed , but cut the rope with a knife , which he had concealed about his person , and fled to the woods , where he was joined by Carter . These two worthies kept themselves concealed in the secret parts of the island ...
... tree to be executed , but cut the rope with a knife , which he had concealed about his person , and fled to the woods , where he was joined by Carter . These two worthies kept themselves concealed in the secret parts of the island ...
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Page 24 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 265 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 182 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 535 - For if I am obliged to storm, you may depend on such treatment as- is justly due to a murderer. Beware of destroying stores of any kind, or any papers or letters that are in your possession, or hurting one house in town — for, by Heavens! if you do, there shall be no mercy shown you. [Signed,] "GR CLARK.
Page 304 - ... after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one helps with his breath to swell the windy superstructure, and admires and wonders at the magnitude of the inflation he has contributed to produce. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stockjobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of knighterrant, or rather...
Page 24 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour ; treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foizon, all abundance. To feed my innocent people.
Page 179 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 417 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Page 12 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 92 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.