If Mr. Bulstrode insisted, as he was apt to do, on the Lutheran doctrine of justification, as that by which a Church must stand or fall, Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; if Mrs. Wimple insisted on a particular providence in relation to her stomach complaint, Dr. Minchin for his part liked to keep the mental windows open and objected to fixed limits; if the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr. Minchin quoted Pope's "Essay on Man." — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
moderate sum of four dollars
The merchant assured is that this could be made very comfortable until such time as it suited R—— to remove, and the owner was willing to let us have it for the moderate sum of four dollars a month. — from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
Passing one of these boats at night, and seeing the great body of fire, exposed as I have just described, that rages and roars beneath the frail pile of painted wood: the machinery, not warded off or guarded in any way, but doing its work in the midst of the crowd of idlers and emigrants and children, who throng the lower deck: under the management, too, of reckless men whose acquaintance with its mysteries may have been of six months’ standing: one feels directly that the wonder is, not that there should be so many fatal accidents, but that any journey should be safely made. — from American Notes by Charles Dickens
my state of feebleness deceive
"Do not let my state of feebleness deceive you," she said; "I feel that I am better; there is a quick life within me, and a spirit of anticipation that assures me, that I shall continue long to make a part of this world. — from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Lion having made himself king of the wild beasts, and wishing to acquire the reputation of equity, abandoned his former course of rapine , and, content among them 418 with a moderate supply of food, distributed hallowed justice with incorruptible fidelity. — from The Fables of Phædrus
Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus
George on Iroquois peace embassy 486 Lowrey , Maj. George , signer of act of union 136 Lowrey , Col. John , part taken by, in Creek war 90 , 91 , 97 Lyttleton , Governor, negotiations with Cherokee by (1758–59) 42 [ Contents ] M McCarthy, W. C. , East Cherokee agent 174 – 175 McCarthy, W. C. on East Cherokee condition (1875) 175 MacCormack , ——, collection by xxix McCulloch on De Soto’s route 193 McDowell , ——, defeat of Ferguson by 57 McDowell , —— on Ohio Cherokee 79 McFarland , Colonel, expedition under 75 McGee , Dr W. J., memoir by xliii–xliv McGee , Dr W. J., work of xx, xxi, xxix McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , endeavor to form Indian confederacy by 72 McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , life of 209 – 210 McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , ransom of Mrs. Brown by 65 McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , remonstrance against Creek raids to 67 MacGowan , Dr D. J. on Ani′ Kuta′nĭ 393 MacGowan , Dr D. J. on farewell address of Floyd Welch 226 – 227 MacGowan , Dr D. J. on Ketoowah society 226 McIntosh , Gen. William , attitude of, during Creek war 89 , 90 McIntosh , Gen. William , killing of 134 McIntosh , Gen. William , life of 216 – 217 McIntosh , Gen. William , removal of Creeks after killing of 385 McIntosh , Gen. William , treaty signed by 61 McKenney, Thomas , Chief of Indian Bureau (1825) 111 McKenney, Thomas on Cherokee government 107 McKenney and Hall on battle of Horseshoe bend 96 McKenney and Hall on Cherokee declaration of war against Creeks (1813) 89 McKenney and Hall on invention of Cherokee syllabary 110 McKenney and Hall on killing of Doublehead 85 McKenney and Hall on number of Cherokee in Creek war 96 McKenney and Hall on Osage-Cherokee troubles 137 McKenney and Hall on Prophet’s mission among Cherokee 89 McKenney and Hall on Sequoya’s ancestry 109 McKenney and Hall on Tahchee 141 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , effort to cause Cherokee removal by 105 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , emigration under direction of 103 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , figures of, on Cherokee emigration 106 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , treaty signed by 103 McNair, David , grave of 221 – 222 Magic in Cherokee myth 243 , 246 , 255 , 277 – 278 , 279 , 320 , 374 – 375 , 393 – 394 , 434 , 501 , 502 , passim Magic , Indian practice of 495 Mahican , association of, with Delawares 494 Mahican , modern representatives of 498 Mahican , separation of, from Delawares 19 Maine , work in xiii, xvii–xviii Maize , see Corn . — from Myths of the Cherokee
Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney
Further, agriculture in Great Britain, from the great attention paid to it, and the extended capital and skill employed in its prosecution, had come to be more and more worked by manual labour, and was rapidly approaching—at least, in the richer districts of the country— the horticultural system , in which at once the greatest produce is obtained from the soil, and the greatest amount of human labour is employed in its cultivation; and in which the greatest manufacturing states of former days, Florence and Flanders, had, on the decay of their manufacturing industry, found a never-failing resource for a denser population than now exists in Great Britain. — from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various
The valley was soon as lonely as it had been populous; the pulpit remained a mere mossy bank, more suggestive or fairy dances than of Calvinist sermons, and no one remained on the scene save Beranger with his pony, Jacques the groom, a stout farmer, the preacher, and a tall thin figure in the plainest dark cloth dress that could be worn by a gentleman, a hawk on his wrist. — from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
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