Overland MonthlyA. Roman and Company, 1900 |
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Page 51
... given place to a new arrangement of cir- cumstances . To impute the disarrangement of un- comfortable European social convention- alities , as so many people do , to American maliciousness , is to utterly mistake the position of the ...
... given place to a new arrangement of cir- cumstances . To impute the disarrangement of un- comfortable European social convention- alities , as so many people do , to American maliciousness , is to utterly mistake the position of the ...
Page 53
... given privilege of doing entirely new and original things in entirely new and original ways . But the common clay - born man , possessing only talents , may do only what has been done before him . At the best , if he work hard , and ...
... given privilege of doing entirely new and original things in entirely new and original ways . But the common clay - born man , possessing only talents , may do only what has been done before him . At the best , if he work hard , and ...
Page 55
... given that travail and vicissitude mark time to man's footsteps as he stumbles onward toward the grave ; and it is well . Without the bitter one may not know the sweet . The other day - nay , it was but yesterday - I fell before the ...
... given that travail and vicissitude mark time to man's footsteps as he stumbles onward toward the grave ; and it is well . Without the bitter one may not know the sweet . The other day - nay , it was but yesterday - I fell before the ...
Page 63
... given the warning was not the only one there , but Grainger did not stop for them . With a harsh shout he leapt into the ditch , alight- ing on the prone form of a Boer , whom he immediately thrust through with his sword , while half a ...
... given the warning was not the only one there , but Grainger did not stop for them . With a harsh shout he leapt into the ditch , alight- ing on the prone form of a Boer , whom he immediately thrust through with his sword , while half a ...
Page 78
... given to him to mend . In the home of rugs , foot - coverings are left at the door . There are no chair- legs to crush and chafe the pile , and in a century of wear in the East a rug re- ceives less hard usage than it has in Ameri- can ...
... given to him to mend . In the home of rugs , foot - coverings are left at the door . There are no chair- legs to crush and chafe the pile , and in a century of wear in the East a rug re- ceives less hard usage than it has in Ameri- can ...
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