The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918

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George H. Doran Company, 1918 - 435 sider
 

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Side 408 - Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills...
Side 407 - Dear Editor — I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so.
Side 408 - Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a SANTA CLAUS. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Side 220 - Grant nor Thomas intended it. Their orders were to carry the rifle-pits along the base of the ridge and capture their occupants, but when this was accomplished the unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily up those impracticable steeps, over the bristling rifle-pits on the crest and the thirty cannon enfilading every gully. The order to storm appears to have been given simultaneously by Generals Sheridan and Wood, because the men were not to be held back, dangerous as the attempt appeared...
Side 74 - Sir John has added a stock of knowledge to the present age that will immortalize his name, and place it high on the page of science.
Side 407 - 115 West Ninety-fifth street." Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping...
Side 78 - Whilst passing across the canvass, and whenever we afterwards saw them, these creatures were evidently engaged in conversation; their gesticulation, more particularly the varied action of their hands and arms, appeared impassioned and emphatic. We hence inferred that they were rational beings, and although not, perhaps, of so high an order as others which we discovered the next month, on the shores of the Bay of Rainbows, that they were capable of producing works of art and contrivance.
Side 63 - ... about five feet seven inches in height, symmetrically formed ; there is an air of distinction about his whole person — the air noble of genius. His face is strongly pitted by the small-pox, and, perhaps from the same cause, there is a marked obliquity in the eyes ; a certain calm, clear luminousness, however, about these latter, amply compensates for the defect, and the forehead is truly beautiful in its intellectuality. I am acquainted with no person possessing so fine a forehead as Mr. Locke.
Side 237 - Support your party, if you have one. But do not think all the good men are in it and all the bad ones outside of it.
Side 206 - VIA SACRA. Slowly along the crowded street I go, Marking with reverent look each passer's face, Seeking, and not in vain, in each to trace That primal soul whereof he is the show. For here still move, by many eyes unseen, The blessed gods that erst Olympus kept; Through every guise these lofty forms serene Declare the all-holding Life hath never slept ; But known each thrill that in man's heart hath been, And every tear that his sad eyes have wept; Alas for us ! the heavenly visitants— We greet...

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