Continental Monthly Vol 5 No 6 June 1864 Devoted To Literature

Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made availabl...

However, He begins His teaching. Where He learned it, how He learned it, why it took the form it did, how _He_ came to give moral law to the world, where He found the words of w...

Time or chance alone could resolve the question, and meanwhile, what course could Ænone take? Not that of sending the object of her suspicion to another place; for even if she h...

Few of the people of the North have ever inquisitively considered the Mississippi River, and as a consequence its numerous peculiarities are not generally known. Indeed, its onl...

1846. ft. in. ° A. B. May 21 10 11 72 6.66 7.00 " 25 10 11 73 9.08 9.12 " 27 10 10 78 7.80 9.00 " 29 11 0 74 7.30 8.10 June 2 11 1 75 4.80 5.45 " 4 11 1 75 7.87 6.10 " 6 11 4 75...

As the Mississippi reaches the neighborhood of the Balize the east banks slope to the sea level very rapidly, running off toward the end at a declination of three feet to a mile...

At one the stage for the Mountain House started. The passengers had already waited three hours for the arrival of the down boat, delayed by the fog. They were consequently in no...

Still profounder insight is disclosed in the article on 'Christianity as an Organ of Political Movement.' It was a chance perusal of this essay that first turned our attention t...

In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness. Of the former we have no defence to make; we think that,...

'Come, and play with me,' cried the little fellow, bounding up to Harry in all the ardor of a glowing anticipation, eagerly folding one thin hand in both his dimpled ones, and f...

'That was the lady who sent you the flower. She lives in a little white house just across the road. One day, when Betty took me out for a walk, I ran away and went there; and I...

At the mention of that word, what little self-possession he retained gave way, and he sobbed outright. It was a sob so passionate and long suppressed, and it burst forth in spit...

Then the father, stooping, looks into the little face lying on Charley's shoulder, and, staggering back as if a blow had struck him, cries out: 'Dead!' and the friend that Harry...

The whole of what man individually or collectively puts forth, as the product of his mind or of all minds, is the totality of _Expression_, in a sense which exactly counterparts...

_3d Power_. ROOT-WORDS 3. DESCRIPTIVE GENERALIZATIONS. (Three-letter Syllables). (Averages). _2d Power_. SYLLABLES 2. SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES. (Two-letter Syllables). (Force, Attr...

Intermediate between the Active and the Passive Locutions is a compound Active and Reactive state--the action put forth by the agent, and yet terminating upon himself--which is...

To one familiar with the gradual progress in the organization of our armies, it is interesting to recur to the time when the first levies of volunteers were raised. Regiments we...

Once or twice in my life I have seen a smile on a female face under circumstances which made it impossible to doubt that the smile was gotten up for my especial benefit. On such...

'The _Plète_, which is often and wrongfully confounded with the knout, is a far less formidable instrument. It is composed of three strong leathern thongs, terminated at the one...