Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 51

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Harper's Magazine Company, 1875

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Page 111 - Is it true, O Shadrach, and Meshach, and Abed-nego ! do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? " Now if ye be ready, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music...
Page 561 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 289 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 135 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Page 140 - No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another: and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him...
Page 446 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 532 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD...
Page 30 - In damp fields known to bird and fox, But he would come in the very hour It opened in its* virgin bower, As if a sunbeam showed the place, And tell its long-descended race.
Page 443 - Write on your doors the saying wise and old", "Be bold ! be bold !" and everywhere — " Be bold ; Be not too bold ! " Yet better the excess Than the defect ; better the more than less ; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and Ну.
Page 446 - Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand Œdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, "When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men...

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