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The false and the phantasmal have ever been considered the necessary complements, as it were, of our

They heard gods in winds and in fire—and altars to these were among the earliest raised.

The forests were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad

The Swiss peasants were successful, and are held in honorable remembrance forever.

We have a thousand proofs that they were rude, bad, ignorant times.

Grass points out that this is a revised reprint of an article by the same title published by the American

were even then the remains of an ancient city."

The population were in a state of terror and despair, and hopes were expressed and reports whispered,

Formerly, these were reluctant to mingle with the American population, but this state of things is rapidly

They were met by the Americans under General Jackson, 6000 strong.

—Over one-half of the population are Americans, of British descent.

At one time this scrapbook likely contained numerous additional manuscript pages that were later removed

how it should be administered, and who were qualified and who not.

, and why they were so willing to give the price required for it.

they could go, and when they were wanted again they would be sent for.

This news was not long in reaching the American Legislative Assembly who were then in session in Westchester

This valuable property, of right belongs to the city of Brooklyn.

I think posterity will doubt if such things ever were; if our bold ancestors who settled this land were

They were vapors, fever and ague of the unsettled woods.

In 1660, the population was one hundred and thirty- four souls: in 1698 it had increased to five hundred

During this period, and for a long time afterwards, almost all the inhabitants of Brooklyn were Dutch

In that year, a number of emigrants, chiefly Walloons, were sent out from Holland to Manhattan, under

Francis Bright, who came out in 1629, were the first regularly ordained ministers in Massachusetts.

All around were then open cultivated fields with farm houses.

Would to heaven that it were so!

As he himself says:— "If these brief lays, of sorrow born, Were taken to be such as closed Grave doubts

and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn."

Children's Hospital" passionately asserting that she could not serve in the wards unless Christianity were

crouch whom the rest bade aspire. ****** Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were

His lays were heard in the pauses of the fight.

to blow through the long corridor of the canal, which is here cut straight through the woods, and were

When we reached the Concord, we were forced to row once more in good earnest, with neither wind nor current

from about 40˚ 34´ to 41˚ 10´ North Latitude, and from 2˚ 58´ to 5˚ 3´ East Longitude from Washington City

miles the hour without diminution or interruption, in an eastwardly direction, sweeping past the American

by the wreck of the British sloop of war Sylph, as well as parts of the vessel and cabin furniture, were

The force of the current between Oyster Pond Point and Plumb Island is very great, yet it is exceeded

afloat during low water of spring-tides, moored to the quays which bound the seaward sides of the city

Among the many accusations and calumnies which were heaped upon this despised people, there was none

The answer is plain,by the hands of wicked men, and because his works were righteous, and theirs were

Know ye not that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ, were baptised into his death ?

But they were not necessary, and perhaps not suited to any other people than they to whom they were written

Were you ever tempted by any devil but one in your own souls? No: you never were.

other European power, seated upon what must one day have been the easternmost projection of the American

Both shrouded as it were from the world, and dedicated to the service of Apollo almost from their very

Her first attempts at verse were given to the Athenaeum without any signature, or indeed even initial

word, and call Browningesque; for we question if, till Miss Barrett wrote, so singular a position were

actual life, Schiller the ideal Goethe mixes both actual and ideal Niebelungen Lied—scene much in the city

from it, the revealed system of medicine, the Puranas, or sacred histories, and the code of Menu, were

—"A number of glosses or comments on Menu were composed by the Munis, or old philosophers, whose treatises

We seem to be dabbling in the very elements of our present conventional and actual life; as if it were

where how to eat and to drink and to sleep, and maintain life with adequate dignity and sincerity, were

In another era the "lily-of-the valley, cowslip, dandelion," were to work their way down into the plain

Coleridge, Lloyd, and Lovell were those who were his first intellectual associates; after a time, Wordsworth

, Lamb, and Cottle were added.

All these were men of a peculiar stamp, some of the highest powers.

fitted for emigration to a new world than they were.

Both Lloyd and Lovell were singular beings.

Clipping on final page appeared in Scientific American, 25 September 1847; here it is pasted on a February

1851 essay on Robert Southey from the American Whig Review.

The Americans are in very good repute in China—the English and French very bad.— June 23d '57 Talk with

Canton, and all through the country: A religious building : There would be here and there in the cities

—Away in the interior is Pekin, the great city, the "Chinaman's heaven."

June '57) describes to me a very low kind of human beings he saw in one of the Ladrone islands—they were

They were two in number. About three feet high; weighed between 47 and 50 pounds.

Some contradict it, and say they were raised in this country."

incline to the opinion that they are real Borneoans. * *What difference does it make whether they were

neighbouring mountains, hoisted the inverted red flag to the foremast as a signal that the parties on board were

—Personal qualities were accepted and obeyed:— as (When are they not accepted and obeyed?

composition expression— —but the men and women other nation other empires and states, other mighty and populous

cities, contemporary was with them in other parts of the world, or ages antecedent of them, perhaps

another in methods fit for answering to what was needed.— These other nations unknown empires and cities

.— Grier estimates that this was written between 1856 and 1860 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished

Grier estimates that this was written between 1856 and 1860 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished

See "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 355.

See "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 355.; Transcribed from digital

.1809 1847 39 Lincoln.............1809 1865 56 Cumming ..........1810 1870 60 Parker, Theo ......1810 1860

Webb, President of the Free College of the City of New York, and from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Rev. Wm.

Dating this piece is difficult; Grier estimates that the notes were written after 1873 (Walt Whitman:

Dating this piece is difficult; Grier estimates that the notes were written after 1873 (Walt Whitman:

city into a solitude of mourning and of ruins!

Notwithstanding this, the Turks were beaten by the Russians, and the man who then predicted the fall

We were slaves, we might command; but we only wish to be free, and liberty is but justice. 79 Mollas,

they were committed by those men, who, descending from their cages, thus indemnified themselves for

the Fortunate Islands, the abode of eternal spring; and beyond were the hyperborean regions, placed

The Quirites were a Sabine race. These two towns were hostile to each other.

The senators were chosen for life.

were taken from, before they were conquered.

to the Etruscan city.

Schlegel 272 were hewn.

influence has been more perceptible since the close of the Eastern war, by which quite a number of them were

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe. 283 and adds the interesting fact, that they were in a good state

Specimens of wood found there were in an excellent state of preservation.

Even they, however, were doomed at last to foreign invasion.

, seeds that were but revived by the German Luther?

Even in her worst days, were her serfs more degraded beings than those of Russia now?

Would that Lord Bacon were here! And thus we are led to a deeper truth.

History, without doubt, as Lord Bacon says—it borrows thence its mould, not rigorously, but with exceeding

With Wales, it contains fifty-two counties, or thirty-seven millions of acres, and a population of about

legislative system till 1800, contains thirty-two counties, or twenty millions of acres, and a population

at a more rapid pace than any other part of the civilised world, some of the states of the North American

Barbadoes, Trinidad, and the other West India colonies, are less populous, the full amount being in each

In Ireland, the population is divided into seven hundred and fifty-two thousand persons in connexion

the arrow ; and these moments are all so closely connected, and yet so distinct one from another, were

uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce; and round the gold Two brazen rings of work divine were

Th' embroidered sandals on his feet were tied; The starry falchion glitter'd at his side; And last his

That the writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were ignorant of the true principles of

In the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, of which there is a translated American edition, we

While those on one side were thus passing down in line to the stern, those on the other, having faced

about, were passing up toward the bow, drawing their poles floating on the water.

They were the most athletic, restless, and reckless set of men the country ever produced.

In their habits, the keel-boatmen were lawless in the extreme, and would set the civil authorities at

Had their numbers increased with the population of the West, they would have endangered the peace of

Population of the World. Mr. C. F. W.

Deitterich, a statistician and director of the Statistical Department of Berlin, estimating the population

"The Sorrows of Werter Werther " seems to us a wondrously trashy production, and, were it appearing now

, principle, or geniality, although with considerable power of simulating sympathy with all three, were

He passes with the general crowd upon whom the American glance descends with certain blending of curiosity

—Thus reasoned the Emperor Caligula, according to Philon, proving plausibly enough that the kings were

—Aristotle had said, before them all, that men are not equal by nature, but that some were born for slavery

undeveloped is, in not realizing that the individual , man or woman is the head and ideal, and the State, City

.— Even at the time of writing them, Spenser's words, in his poems, were many of them unusual, obsolete

delivers the king & queen, marries the daughter.— Grier estimates that this was written in 1859 or 1860

Grier estimates that this was written in 1859 or 1860.

See Stovall, "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 348.

See Stovall, "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 348.; Transcribed

Then said the lady Brunhilde, "Nay, The King, your brother, is most noble—If none were living but you

The great characteristics of Franklin were perseverance, temperance, and common sense.

Spinal idea of a "Lesson" Founding a new American Religion (?

era," (the birth of Christ.) about the year 536 Moses of course was born in Egypt, while the Jews were

The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women," which probably dates from

about 1854 to about 1860.

Both manuscript scraps were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the

continuation of the text on the reverse of both paste-ons with the notebook leaves from which they were

The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women," which probably dates from

about 1854 to about 1860.

Both manuscript scraps were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the

may have been written at a later date.; The notes written on the pasted-on parts of this manuscript were

continuation of the text on the reverse of both paste-ons with the notebook leaves from which they were

one week's issue of patents from the National Patent office at Washington illustrates America and American

—(Remember the show at the Crystal Palace, and the American Institute Fairs.)

Gallegher, Alleghany City, Pa. Needles for sewing: Benjamin Garvey, New York, N. Y.

American Institute Farmers Club April 21, '57 Origin and unchangeable nature of Plants and Animals. —

also contends that there is no upward progression into another of any species—that all are as they were

The North American Indian, as he was found here by our ancestors, was a carnivorous animal, as untamable

Yet when we suppose the age was faultless, or that all were actuated by pure and patriotic motives, or

American Institute Farmers Club

Gorilla—those reports and notices related of the much dreaded, ape-like animal of the African wilds, that were

lives in one of the best houses of the place—"New Place" 1601 his father died, aged 71—his last years were

1600 As the first translations (worth‑mentioning) of the Iliad and Odyssey were published in 1675, Shakespeare

Chamberlain in behalf of him and Burbage 1600 and for some time before and after, juvenile companies were

At the back of the stage is a platform and balcony—that is the city-wall, where Helen will see the armies

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

An American poet may read Rousseau, but shall never imitate hi m .— He is a curious study, and will cause

After many wanderings, the last ten years of Rousseau's life, were in and around Paris.

Rousseau's Confessions— Swinton's translation, fall of 1856 were in 1766, Rousseau, 5 6 4 years old,

within a month of each other. finishing stroke George Steers's lead ☞ Remember in those days there were

More than two-thirds of his fourscore years were passed in unremitting literary labor.

☟ good statement There is something very bitter in the tacit adoption in the our great democratic cities

His are perhaps more numerous in New York, in Cincinnati and Charleston than they are in other cities

Because they were implanted in us by God for this and no other purpose; 2d.

enter respectively into marital relations with new partners, then we say that his views on this point were

imprinting many a kiss; Joying, as I would joy, to see such charms, As though he knew how blest a lot were

I cried, 'would that I shared the bliss Of that embrace, and that such joy were mine!'

Meanwhile, the vigorous minds of Germany were occupied with other matters.

Soul-like were those hours of yore; Let us walk in soul once more.

It is the strangest contrast of cities that can be seen in Europe.

going forth, seeing all the beautiful perfect things— "Nobly does ARISTOTLE observe, that if there were

immutable in all eternity; when, I say, they should see these things, truly they would believe that there were