The Midland Monthly Magazine, Volumes 1-2J. Birgham, 1894 |
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HTC was tied up in a bright handkerchief . She turned her brown and wrinkled face towards the visitors , smiling . " Viegates , Katrina ? " said Mr. Havens , cheerfully . " How are you , and how's Eliza Hinds ? Viegates , Eliza ? " The ...
HTC was tied up in a bright handkerchief . She turned her brown and wrinkled face towards the visitors , smiling . " Viegates , Katrina ? " said Mr. Havens , cheerfully . " How are you , and how's Eliza Hinds ? Viegates , Eliza ? " The ...
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... turned she will do those very things I don't want her to do and say that she can't help it . And yet I can't quite despair about her . She shows such a kind of dog - like attachment to me ; she is always obedient , and if I only stay ...
... turned she will do those very things I don't want her to do and say that she can't help it . And yet I can't quite despair about her . She shows such a kind of dog - like attachment to me ; she is always obedient , and if I only stay ...
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... turning point in American history . The war which came thirty years later was only the culmination of issues projected and ... turned from a low to a high protective tariff , which Henry Clay had made prominent as his " American policy ...
... turning point in American history . The war which came thirty years later was only the culmination of issues projected and ... turned from a low to a high protective tariff , which Henry Clay had made prominent as his " American policy ...
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... turned to account when the call for duty comes , - not in war and carnage , we trust ; but , rather , in the peaceful evolution of the progress of the world , where moral and social problems are daily to be solved with wisdom , with ...
... turned to account when the call for duty comes , - not in war and carnage , we trust ; but , rather , in the peaceful evolution of the progress of the world , where moral and social problems are daily to be solved with wisdom , with ...
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... turned to seek me with her eyes , to know that I was near to protect her from harm . I would have died for her then , as I felt the precious care of being her guardian . One after another they came and went , but he I waited for came ...
... turned to seek me with her eyes , to know that I was near to protect her from harm . I would have died for her then , as I felt the precious care of being her guardian . One after another they came and went , but he I waited for came ...
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Page 88 - Those activities which directly minister to self-preservation; 2. Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of the tastes and feelings.
Page 221 - Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
Page 79 - Twixt earth and paradise, Where things decayed and loved ones lost In dreamy shadows rise, And, freed from all that's earthly vile, Seem hallowed, pure, and bright, Like scenes in some enchanted isle All bathed in liquid light.
Page 408 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
Page 90 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 78 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 295 - That John Bunyan of the town of Bedford, labourer, being a person of such and such conditions, he hath (since such a time) devilishly and perniciously abstained from coming to church to hear divine service, and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, to the great disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the king, &c.
Page 320 - Volunteers and served therein until the close of his term of service; was collector of internal revenue for the Third district of Iowa from November, 1865, until June, 1869, when he resigned and became a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Henderson...
Page 501 - To study in common how to apply the moral truths and principles of Christianity to the social and economic difficulties of the present time.
Page 52 - ... glad welcome: I shall tremble— yes; And touch her, as when first in the old days I touched her girlish hand, nor dared upraise Mine eyes, such was my faint heart's sweet distress. Then silence: and the perfume of her dress: The room will sway a little, and a haze Cloy eyesight— soulsight, even— for a space; And tears— yes; and the ache here in the throat, To know that I so ill deserve the place Her arms make for me; and the sobbing note I stay with kisses, ere the tearful face Again is...