Harper's Magazine, Volume 128Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1914 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... waiting . While the Boy , tired out , was sleeping under the tree , the question of going home was talked out and decided . They would break camp at sunrise , and , joining with others of their countrymen who were tented around them ...
... waiting . While the Boy , tired out , was sleeping under the tree , the question of going home was talked out and decided . They would break camp at sunrise , and , joining with others of their countrymen who were tented around them ...
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... waiting for him , " G. G. told Ann ; " he must have stayed for dinner at Mr. Dilworth's . " George Gale was awe - struck at such behavior on his uncle's part . " Talk about courage ! " he said to himself— " those perfectly strange ...
... waiting for him , " G. G. told Ann ; " he must have stayed for dinner at Mr. Dilworth's . " George Gale was awe - struck at such behavior on his uncle's part . " Talk about courage ! " he said to himself— " those perfectly strange ...
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... waiting for ? An oil princess ? See here , George , if I caught you playing with that young lady's feelings , or lacking in respect- " I have the greatest possible respect ! Only I have no reason to suppose that she has the slightest ...
... waiting for ? An oil princess ? See here , George , if I caught you playing with that young lady's feelings , or lacking in respect- " I have the greatest possible respect ! Only I have no reason to suppose that she has the slightest ...
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... waiting for her ; " and so is my nephew ; the boy has lost his heart , and I'm afraid his head has gone with it , for he has left me to escort you . ' " " But before the captain and Netty caught up with the others , G. G. found himself ...
... waiting for her ; " and so is my nephew ; the boy has lost his heart , and I'm afraid his head has gone with it , for he has left me to escort you . ' " " But before the captain and Netty caught up with the others , G. G. found himself ...
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... waiting -waiting , I tell you ! -to have you say ' Will you ? ' George , look here ; you are playing with that girl's feelings ! " " I'm no such thing ! " George Gale said , with answering anger . " I meant to pay my addresses this ...
... waiting -waiting , I tell you ! -to have you say ' Will you ? ' George , look here ; you are playing with that girl's feelings ! " " I'm no such thing ! " George Gale said , with answering anger . " I meant to pay my addresses this ...
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Page 227 - THE LOOK STREPHON kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Strephon's kiss was lost in jest, Robin's lost in play, But the kiss in Colin's eyes Haunts me night and day.
Page 390 - Just ask Axon whether he means to go fetch wages to-day or to-morrow. Has he forgotten it's Saturday morning?" Louis shot away into the outer office, where Axon was just putting on his hat to go to the bank. Alone in the outer office, Louis wondered. The whole of his vitality was absorbed in the single function of wondering. Then, through the thin slit of the...
Page 486 - Government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the infinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. The power of all corporations, ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.
Page 188 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Page 489 - ... naked deformity, the doctrine that religious truth is to be tested by numbers, or that the major sects have a right to govern the minor. If religion consists in voluntary acts of individuals, singly or voluntarily associated, and it be proper that public functionaries, as well as their constituents, should discharge their religious duties, let them, like their constituents, do so at their own expense.