Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young Men of Germany and the Old Boys of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 360 sider |
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... South Germans is partly accounted for by their softer climate , but here the same temperature prevails as about Wit- tenberg . The Germans seem to suffer in their moral nature , under a purely hireling system , more than any other ...
... South Germans is partly accounted for by their softer climate , but here the same temperature prevails as about Wit- tenberg . The Germans seem to suffer in their moral nature , under a purely hireling system , more than any other ...
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... South Ger- man peasants than their almost infantine devotion to tawdry ornamentation . This was well illustrated in a little village near May- ence , whose single street , when I entered it , was furbe- lowed in an astonishing manner ...
... South Ger- man peasants than their almost infantine devotion to tawdry ornamentation . This was well illustrated in a little village near May- ence , whose single street , when I entered it , was furbe- lowed in an astonishing manner ...
Side 149
... South Ger- man character ( for these peasants here are no longer like those in Protestant Prussia ) . It was the birthday of a certain great man of the village , who died and was buried , and they assembled to do honor to his memory in ...
... South Ger- man character ( for these peasants here are no longer like those in Protestant Prussia ) . It was the birthday of a certain great man of the village , who died and was buried , and they assembled to do honor to his memory in ...
Side 150
... South German ! It is a mystery , a contradiction , one of those innumerable paradoxes of the German character . The graves are The South German mind is utterly hollow and vain , sacrificing utility or noble reverence for gauds at any ...
... South German ! It is a mystery , a contradiction , one of those innumerable paradoxes of the German character . The graves are The South German mind is utterly hollow and vain , sacrificing utility or noble reverence for gauds at any ...
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... south of Königgrätz ! All that long flight since ten o'clock in the morning ! Never in history or in story will the narrative of König- grätz be told more graphically than Marshal Benedek pictured it to his Imperial master , in that ...
... south of Königgrätz ! All that long flight since ten o'clock in the morning ! Never in history or in story will the narrative of König- grätz be told more graphically than Marshal Benedek pictured it to his Imperial master , in that ...
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Side 353 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Side 75 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood : If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Side 162 - Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Side 304 - They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
Side 317 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Side 24 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone...
Side 299 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Side 230 - HARK ! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum ; Lo ! a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum, — Saying, " Come, Freemen, come ! Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick alarming drum.
Side 9 - And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Side 78 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...