The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 42Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1853 |
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... present day ; but she looked , to my ignorant eyes - oh ! so monstrous , and so dangerous ! The steadfast heart failed as I saw the black smoke pouring from her chimneys , and heard the sharp hiss of the escaping steam ; and , for a ...
... present day ; but she looked , to my ignorant eyes - oh ! so monstrous , and so dangerous ! The steadfast heart failed as I saw the black smoke pouring from her chimneys , and heard the sharp hiss of the escaping steam ; and , for a ...
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... present enjoyment is derived from anticipation of future good , or from pleasing reflections upon the past . Whatever happiness we may occa- sionally experience from the present hour , there are many , many times , when the vacuum which ...
... present enjoyment is derived from anticipation of future good , or from pleasing reflections upon the past . Whatever happiness we may occa- sionally experience from the present hour , there are many , many times , when the vacuum which ...
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... present writing , ' that we have seen the same sentiments , better expressed , before : but we may be mistaken : ' WHEN We look around us and behold the happy condition of our country , the success which has attended its enterprises ...
... present writing , ' that we have seen the same sentiments , better expressed , before : but we may be mistaken : ' WHEN We look around us and behold the happy condition of our country , the success which has attended its enterprises ...
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... present volume the reader will be enabled to follow Mr. COLE from his birth and school - days to the day of his death ; embracing his early love for nature and art ; his pedestrian tours in the West as a portrait- painter ; his voyages ...
... present volume the reader will be enabled to follow Mr. COLE from his birth and school - days to the day of his death ; embracing his early love for nature and art ; his pedestrian tours in the West as a portrait- painter ; his voyages ...
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... present volume , with the assured conviction that we shall hear again from Mr. SMITH , and more to his advantage , when time shall have pruned his redundant imagination , and made him more reliant upon his heart and his judgment than ...
... present volume , with the assured conviction that we shall hear again from Mr. SMITH , and more to his advantage , when time shall have pruned his redundant imagination , and made him more reliant upon his heart and his judgment than ...
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