The Dial, Volume 17Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1894 - Books |
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... Poem by John Vance Cheney Ballade of Books Well Bound . Poem by Harry 188 57 149 57 . 149 56 147 • • · Newberry Library , John Vance Cheney Elected Librarian of the . 270 B. Smith 73 Oxford , Final Honor School of English at Pater ...
... Poem by John Vance Cheney Ballade of Books Well Bound . Poem by Harry 188 57 149 57 . 149 56 147 • • · Newberry Library , John Vance Cheney Elected Librarian of the . 270 B. Smith 73 Oxford , Final Honor School of English at Pater ...
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... Poems 156 · Curzon , George N. Problems of the Far East 189 387 . Davidson , John . Plays 125 386 • De Amicis , Edmondo . Holland . 383 De Gontaut , the Duchesse , Memoirs of 384 340 68 300 De Méneval , Claude - François . Memoirs Illus ...
... Poems 156 · Curzon , George N. Problems of the Far East 189 387 . Davidson , John . Plays 125 386 • De Amicis , Edmondo . Holland . 383 De Gontaut , the Duchesse , Memoirs of 384 340 68 300 De Méneval , Claude - François . Memoirs Illus ...
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... Poems 66 Kidd , Benjamin . Social Evolution . 154 Molesworth , Mrs. My New Home 388 Kingsley , Charles . Hypatia , holiday edition . 336 Kingsley , Henry , The Novels of , Ward , Lock , & Bowden's edition . Monroe , Kirk . The Fur ...
... Poems 66 Kidd , Benjamin . Social Evolution . 154 Molesworth , Mrs. My New Home 388 Kingsley , Charles . Hypatia , holiday edition . 336 Kingsley , Henry , The Novels of , Ward , Lock , & Bowden's edition . Monroe , Kirk . The Fur ...
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... Poems and Lyrics of Nature 389 300 Robertson , Alexander . Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi Robinson Crusoe , Macmillan's edition Robinson , Rowland E. Danvis Folk 70 390 Thiers , Louis Adolphe . History of the Consulate and the Empire ...
... Poems and Lyrics of Nature 389 300 Robertson , Alexander . Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi Robinson Crusoe , Macmillan's edition Robinson , Rowland E. Danvis Folk 70 390 Thiers , Louis Adolphe . History of the Consulate and the Empire ...
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... poems . Of course current maga- zine writing is not held up as ideal literature ; nor , on the other hand , is the production of literature deemed a possible part of college study . The work in this branch of English is rounded off by a ...
... poems . Of course current maga- zine writing is not held up as ideal literature ; nor , on the other hand , is the production of literature deemed a possible part of college study . The work in this branch of English is rounded off by a ...
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Page 34 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 34 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 34 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
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Page 33 - Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate its evils.
Page 145 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
Page 34 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Page 145 - Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 34 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 219 - But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it; he first made writing easily an art; first showed us to conclude the sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together that the reader is out of breath to overtake it.