The Atlantic Monthly, Volum 30Atlantic Monthly Company, 1872 |
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Pàgina 8
... soul ; that it held the. lies open to any well - sustained , per- haps to any plausible claimant . If it should appear from the records of that family , as I have some reason to sup- pose , that a member of it , who would now represent ...
... soul ; that it held the. lies open to any well - sustained , per- haps to any plausible claimant . If it should appear from the records of that family , as I have some reason to sup- pose , that a member of it , who would now represent ...
Pàgina 9
... soul , and that body dead . And so it went on ; and the poor , half- maddened Septimius began to think that his immortal life was preserved by the mere effort of seeking for it , but was to be spent in the quest , and was therefore to ...
... soul , and that body dead . And so it went on ; and the poor , half- maddened Septimius began to think that his immortal life was preserved by the mere effort of seeking for it , but was to be spent in the quest , and was therefore to ...
Pàgina 10
... soul thus to come to him with his musty autograph - book . So Septimius fought with his difficulty by himself , as many a beginner in science has done before him ; and to his efforts in this way are popularly attributed many herb ...
... soul thus to come to him with his musty autograph - book . So Septimius fought with his difficulty by himself , as many a beginner in science has done before him ; and to his efforts in this way are popularly attributed many herb ...
Pàgina 11
... soul might be his companion , then how complete the fence of mutual arms , the warmth of close - pressing breast to breast ! Might there be one ! O , Sybil Dacy ! He Perhaps it could not be . Who but himself could undergo that great ...
... soul might be his companion , then how complete the fence of mutual arms , the warmth of close - pressing breast to breast ! Might there be one ! O , Sybil Dacy ! He Perhaps it could not be . Who but himself could undergo that great ...
Pàgina 12
... soul thrill , and at the same time shudder . Some sort of sympathy there surely was , but of what nature he could not tell ; though often he was impelled to ask himself the same question he asked Sybil , " Are we friends ? " because of ...
... soul thrill , and at the same time shudder . Some sort of sympathy there surely was , but of what nature he could not tell ; though often he was impelled to ask himself the same question he asked Sybil , " Are we friends ? " because of ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Alabama Albrecht Dürer American Anchor Street answer appear arms asked Aunt Rosy balloon beauty Bilkins called Captain Carrol Cherbourg color dark DeMille Dick doctor door doubt Du Potiron eyes face fact Falstaff fear feel felt French GANNET give governor governor of Virginia Grimes hand heard heart hope hundred interest Jefferson knew lady laws of war letter light live look Lovell Margaret matter Maud means ment mind Monticello mother Nadar nature ness never night O'Rouke O'Rouke's once Paris passed perhaps person play poor Potiron prisoner of war prisoners Quaker Scarabee seemed seen Semmes Septimius side smile soul stood story suppose sure Sybil talk tell thing thou thought tion took ture turned Virginia waiting walked whole words wrote young ZoÏLUS
Passatges populars
Pàgina 287 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Pàgina 249 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Pàgina 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Pàgina 287 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 335 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Pàgina 28 - Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.
Pàgina 35 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Pàgina 249 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Pàgina 30 - There are at this time in the adjacent county not less than five or six well-meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments, which in the main are very orthodox.
Pàgina 369 - I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.