The Overland Monthly

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Samuel Carson, 1888

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Стр. 438 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, — a people who are still, aj it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Стр. 438 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Стр. 666 - Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand!
Стр. 438 - Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Стр. 438 - I chanced to espy, All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks all loose...
Стр. 219 - DRAW up the papers, lawyer, and make 'em good and stout; For things at home are crossways, and Betsey and I are out. We, who have worked together so long as man and wife, Must pull in single harness for the rest of our nat'ral life.
Стр. 89 - The text-books so adopted shall continue in use not less than four years ; and said State Board shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law. The Legislature shall provide for a Board of Education in each county in the State. The County Superintendents and the County Boards of Education shall have control of the examination of teachers and the granting of teachers' certificates within their respective jurisdictions.
Стр. 656 - WHEN on my soul in nakedness His swift, avertless hand did press, Then I stood still, nor cried aloud, Nor murmured low in ashes bowed ; And, since my woe is utterless, To supreme quiet I am vowed ; Afar from me be moan and tears, — I shall go softly all my years. Whenso my quick, light-sandaled feet Bring me where Joys and Pleasures meet, I mingle with their throng at will ; They know me not an alien still, Since neither words nor ways unsweet Of stored bitterness I spill ; Youth shuns me not,...
Стр. 538 - But if, firmly believing, as we do, in the omnipresence of God, we behold, by the aid of our imagination, in the form of an image any of His glorious manifestations, ought we to be charged with identifying them with the matter of the image, whilst during those moments of sincere and fervent devotion, we do not even think of matter ? If at the sight of a portrait of a beloved and venerated friend no longer existing in this world. our heart is filled with sentiments of love and reverence; if we fancy...
Стр. 557 - This book has been written to answer questions. As the author in earlier days had spent several years beyond the Mississippi, and much time and travel there since in official...

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