Six Months in the Federal States, Τόμος 1Macmillan and Company, 1863 |
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... party were playing faro at the time , clinging to the table with one hand , and clutching their cards with the other , when the wave washed both players and tables away to the end of the cabin . One of them , a friend of mine , sprung ...
... party were playing faro at the time , clinging to the table with one hand , and clutching their cards with the other , when the wave washed both players and tables away to the end of the cabin . One of them , a friend of mine , sprung ...
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... parties , and the opera was not regularly open , partly because public feeling was averse to much gaiety ; partly , and still more , because the wealthy classes had retrenched all superfluous expendi- ture with a really wonderful ...
... parties , and the opera was not regularly open , partly because public feeling was averse to much gaiety ; partly , and still more , because the wealthy classes had retrenched all superfluous expendi- ture with a really wonderful ...
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... party was a very select one ; but , to my surprise , I met there the correspondent of the New York Herald with his family . The cause of my surprise , I need hardly say , was not at a newspaper correspondent being present - in truth ...
... party was a very select one ; but , to my surprise , I met there the correspondent of the New York Herald with his family . The cause of my surprise , I need hardly say , was not at a newspaper correspondent being present - in truth ...
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... parties are agreed . The Herald is a very valuable property ; and its net profits are said to vary from £ 20,000 to £ 30,000 annually . With the one virtue , too , that a Scotchman can never get rid of , Mr. Bennett is not personally ...
... parties are agreed . The Herald is a very valuable property ; and its net profits are said to vary from £ 20,000 to £ 30,000 annually . With the one virtue , too , that a Scotchman can never get rid of , Mr. Bennett is not personally ...
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... party , of whom Mr. Seward and Mr. Thurlow Weed are the leaders in the State of New York ; and as this party has never yet been able to look the slavery question boldly in the face , their organ shares in their indecision , and their ...
... party , of whom Mr. Seward and Mr. Thurlow Weed are the leaders in the State of New York ; and as this party has never yet been able to look the slavery question boldly in the face , their organ shares in their indecision , and their ...
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Σελίδα 122 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Σελίδα 213 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govem1nent. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Σελίδα 16 - PROCTER— A HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, with a Rationale of its Offices. By FRANCIS PROCTER, MA Thirteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo. loг. 6d. PROCTER AND MACLEAR— AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
Σελίδα 6 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Σελίδα 8 - HODGSON -MYTHOLOGY FOR LATIN VERSIFICATION. A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools. By F. HODGSON, BD, late Provost of Eton. New Edition, revised by FC HODGSON, MA i8mo.
Σελίδα 23 - A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DURING THE fIRST FOUR CENTURIES. Fourth Edition. With Preface on "Supernatural Religion.
Σελίδα 213 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Σελίδα 4 - CLAY. — The Prison Chaplain. A Memoir of the Rev. JOHN CLAY, BD late Chaplain of the Preston Gaol. With Selections from his Reports and Correspondence, and a Sketch of Prison Discipline in England. By his Son, the Rev. WL CLAY, MA 8vo.
Σελίδα 6 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this World to that which is to come.
Σελίδα 122 - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.