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I might have been some time ago the Queen of beauty, but now, Agnes, I am the Queen of Sorrow." "You have had your share of sorrow, my poor stricken creature," replied Agnes, heavily. "But there is, Agnes, a melancholy beauty in sorrow it is so sweet to be sad. Did. you ever see a single star in the sky, Agnes?" "Yes, love, often." "Well, that is like sorrow, or rather that is like me.
What will a Manchester man that knows nothing except goods and office work, and knows these only in their superficial aspect, and not as related to God, what, in the name of common-sense, will he do with himself when he gets into a world where there is not a single ledger, nor a desk, nor a yard of cloth of any sort?
Unless I am entirely mistaken in my idea of the inclinations of boys, it would be very difficult to get a single honest expression of preference for the latter. They would say with one voice, "The first." "I suppose it would be so.
It was in June, 1857, that I had the good fortune to meet Macaulay at dinner at the house of my dear friend, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, then principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea. The brilliant career of the great talker and essayist was drawing to its close, and it is partly on this account that I make now what record I can of my single meeting with him.
The many varieties of the world's manufactures one might almost call them wonders are now so numerous, that to bring any particular one in a single form before this meeting is a matter of no easy nature.
As I finished each letter I had to say who it was to, and where the people lived; and then I had to tell her if they were married or single, how many children they had, and make a guess at how many pounds they spent in the year, and at the number of their servants.
He wore a cap and a brown jockey coat, trowsers, leggings, and highlows, and sported a single spur. He had whiskers all jockeys should have whiskers but he had what I did not like, and what no genuine jockey should have, a moustache, which looks coxcombical and Frenchified but most things have terribly changed since I was young.
Lincoln wrote him on April 9: "After you left I ascertained that less than twenty thousand unorganized men, without a single field-battery, were all you designed to be left for the defense of Washington and Manassas Junction; and part of this, even, was to go to General Hooker's old position.
Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free Negro labor was possible without a system of restrictions that took all its freedom away; there was scarcely a white man in the South who did not honestly regard Emancipation as a crime, and its practical nullification as a duty.
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