Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 9Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1854 - Literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... thousand feet frozen ocean on the north . The greater portion of the streams dry up dur- ing. STEPPES OF SOUTHERN RUSSIA . TARTAR COFFEE - HOUSE . MAUSOLEUM OF THE KHANS . It is not a very creditable confession to make , but though both ...
... thousand feet frozen ocean on the north . The greater portion of the streams dry up dur- ing. STEPPES OF SOUTHERN RUSSIA . TARTAR COFFEE - HOUSE . MAUSOLEUM OF THE KHANS . It is not a very creditable confession to make , but though both ...
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... thousand ; but at times , when some great review is to be held , it is vastly increased . Yet in so large a town there is no such thing as a hotel or an inn , worthy of the name . A few miserable dens in an obscure quarter of the town ...
... thousand ; but at times , when some great review is to be held , it is vastly increased . Yet in so large a town there is no such thing as a hotel or an inn , worthy of the name . A few miserable dens in an obscure quarter of the town ...
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... thousand men in the Russian cam- strangely offered his services to the Emperor.paign , three hundred thousand on the plains of He wished to make himself the rallying point of the old royalist party in Sweden . He would thus greatly ...
... thousand men in the Russian cam- strangely offered his services to the Emperor.paign , three hundred thousand on the plains of He wished to make himself the rallying point of the old royalist party in Sweden . He would thus greatly ...
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... thousand men , he encountered sixty thousand Russians , commanded by Blucher , formidably posted in the castle and upon the eminences of Brienne . Napoleon gazed for a moment upon these familiar scenes , hallowed by the reminiscences of ...
... thousand men , he encountered sixty thousand Russians , commanded by Blucher , formidably posted in the castle and upon the eminences of Brienne . Napoleon gazed for a moment upon these familiar scenes , hallowed by the reminiscences of ...
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... thousand men in killed and crisis . Ruin was coming , like an avalanche , wounded . upon him and upon France . The generals of The next day Blucher and Schwartzenberg , the army urged him to submit to the dire neces- having effected a ...
... thousand men in killed and crisis . Ruin was coming , like an avalanche , wounded . upon him and upon France . The generals of The next day Blucher and Schwartzenberg , the army urged him to submit to the dire neces- having effected a ...
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Page 256 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 489 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 599 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 599 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 443 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Page 56 - It grew up without the lullaby of nurses, it was a stranger to the patient fondle, the hushing caress, the attracting novelty, the costlier plaything, or the cheaper off-hand contrivance to divert the child...
Page 272 - ... into the vault. The spirit was solemnly required to perform its promise, but nothing more than silence ensued : the person supposed to be accused by the spirit, then went down with several others, but no effect was perceived. Upon their return they examined the girl, but could draw no confession from her. Between two and three she desired and was permitted to go home with her father. " It is, therefore, the opinion of the whole assembly, that the child has some art of making or counterfeiting...
Page 389 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Page 389 - Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit...
Page 389 - Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.