Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 27Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1863 - Literature |
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... soon to be made at the Upper Agency , on the Yellow Medicine River ; and that for it thousands of Dahkotahs have collected from the little brick farm - houses the Government has built for them , from their sycamore - bark vil- lages ...
... soon to be made at the Upper Agency , on the Yellow Medicine River ; and that for it thousands of Dahkotahs have collected from the little brick farm - houses the Government has built for them , from their sycamore - bark vil- lages ...
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... soon emptied , with their flesh and bone - of the abominations too hellish to rehearse - of the cruelties , the tortures , the shrieks of agony , the death - groans , of that single hour ? The few that escaped by any means heard enough ...
... soon emptied , with their flesh and bone - of the abominations too hellish to rehearse - of the cruelties , the tortures , the shrieks of agony , the death - groans , of that single hour ? The few that escaped by any means heard enough ...
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... Soon the remnant from Captain Marsh's company rushed in with their tale of defeat and horror . While the ears of all were still tingling with it Jack Frazier , barely with his life , brought word that " Little Crow and his band were ...
... Soon the remnant from Captain Marsh's company rushed in with their tale of defeat and horror . While the ears of all were still tingling with it Jack Frazier , barely with his life , brought word that " Little Crow and his band were ...
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... soon busily engaged butchering cattle for their evening meal . During the Sabbath and Monday , when all this was going on at the Lower Agency and be- low , the people at the Yellow Medicine and the Not all engaged in the outbreak had ...
... soon busily engaged butchering cattle for their evening meal . During the Sabbath and Monday , when all this was going on at the Lower Agency and be- low , the people at the Yellow Medicine and the Not all engaged in the outbreak had ...
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... soon came across our tracks . " There , " said they , " are the tracks of Dr. Williamson and Mr. Riggs ; they can't be far distant , let us overtake and kill them ! " On they came ; in half an hour more they would have been up with us ...
... soon came across our tracks . " There , " said they , " are the tracks of Dr. Williamson and Mr. Riggs ; they can't be far distant , let us overtake and kill them ! " On they came ; in half an hour more they would have been up with us ...
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Page 336 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 425 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Page 233 - The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too. It flashed upon her mind that the problem before her was essentially the same as that which had lain before Savonarola — the problem where the sacredness of obedience ended and where the sacredness of rebellion began. To her, as to him, there had come one of those moments in life when the soul must dare to act on its own warrant, not only without external law to appeal to, but in the face of a law which is not unarmed with Divine lightnings...
Page 413 - Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest.
Page 222 - After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be such strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling.
Page 129 - So long as physiologists continued to believe that Man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their assent from the doctrine of a unity of origin of so many distinct races; but the difficulty becomes less and less, exactly in proportion as we enlarge our ideas of the lapse of time during which different communities may have spread slowly, and become isolated, each exposed for ages to a peculiar set of conditions, whether of temperature, or food,...
Page 227 - The question where the duty of obedience ends, and the duty of resistance begins, could in no case be an easy one ; but it was made overwhelmingly difficult by the belief that the Church was — not a compromise of parties to secure a more or less approximate justice in the appropriation of funds, but — a living organism, instinct with Divine power to bless and to curso.
Page 251 - He might fill himself with the corned beef and the carrots : but, as soon as the tarts and the cheesecakes made their appearance, he quitted his seat, and stood aloof till he was summoned to return thanks for the repast...
Page 413 - By direction of the President of the United States, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac. As a soldier, in obeying this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited — I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion.
Page 247 - The population, sparse as it was, was perpetually thinned by pestilence and want. Nor was the state of the townsman better than that of the rustic ; his bed was a bag of straw, with a fair round log for his pillow. If he was in easy circumstances, his clothing was of leather ; if poor, a wisp of straw wrapped round his limbs kept off the cold.