The Dial, Volumes 32-33Francis Fisher Browne Jansen, McClurg, 1902 - American literature |
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Page 48 - The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The smack and tang of elemental things...
Page 342 - States have ever been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad. Let us all join in doing the acts necessary to restoring the proper practical relations between these States and the Union, and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether in doing the acts he brought the States from without into the Union, or only gave them proper assistance, they never having been out of it.
Page 342 - As appears to me, that question has not been, nor yet is, a practically material one, and that any discussion of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends.
Page 342 - We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the Government, civil and military, in regard to those States, is to again get them into that proper practical relation.
Page 77 - A New Geographical Series. Edited by HJ MACKINDER, MA ., Student of Christ Church, Reader in Geography in the University of Oxford, Principal of Reading College. The Series will consist of Twelve Volumes, each being an essay descriptive of a great natural region, its marked physical features, and the life of its peoples.
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Page 48 - What do we need to keep the nation whole, To guard the pillars of the State? We need The fine audacities of honest deed; The homely old integrities of soul; The swift temerities that take the part Of outcast right — the wisdom of the heart; Brave hopes that Mammon never can detain, Nor sully with his gainless clutch for gain.
Page 86 - It was a cold night in December, and his fire having gone pretty nearly out, by the aid of some tallow candles, and the fragments of a small table which he broke up for the purpose, he soon rekindled it, and by its comfortable blaze I spent a very pleasant hour with him. On this occasion he spoke with regret of the large amount of money he had wasted and of the debts he had contracted during the session. If my memory is not at fault, he estimated his indebtedness at $2,000, and, though they were...
Page 317 - Then have the truth ; I speak as a man speaks ; Pour out my heart like treasure at your feet. This odorous amorous isle of violets, That leans all leaves into the glassy deep...
Page 174 - ACCORDING TO SEASON Talks about the Flowers in the order of their appearance in the Woods and Fields By FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS Author of "How to Know the Wild Flowers," "How to Know the Ferns,