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Page 18 - Lo, humbled in dust, I relinquish my pride: From doubt and from darkness thou only canst free,* " And darkness and doubt are now flying away, No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Page 3 - For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath, shall be given: and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
Page 199 - Year from the First Day of January to the Thirty-first Day of December...
Page 12 - His soliloquy continued thus: "The City of New York may be justly compared to a human being, the City Hall being the heart, the Tombs the stomach, the Five Points the Bowels, the Park the lungs, Broadway the nose, the Piers the feet, Wall Street the pocket, the hotels the mouth, the theaters the eyes, the Bowery the aorta, the avenues the veins, and Nassau and Ann Streets the brains.
Page 96 - Williams's ball to open. Let us go down. We enter a cellar, where we see a few males and females, black, yellow, and white, seated or swaggering about the room; as many males smoking segars and swearing off some story of the day. Upon a sort of platform sit two or three negroes representing the orchestra, and opposite is the bar, behind which stands a negro, or Pete (who is a negro) himself, dealing out whisky, tobacco, beer, and segars, at three cents a glass, or a penny apiece. The music commences...
Page 109 - He takes the bundle, unrolls it, turns up his nose, as if he had smelt a dead rat, and remarks, in the crassest manner possible, 'You have ruined the job,' makes the whole lot up together, and contempuously throws it under the counter. . . . She then asks for her money back, but only receives a threat in return, with a low, muttering grumble, that 'you have damaged us already eight or ten dollars, and we will retain your dollar, as it is all we shall ever get for our goods, which you have spoilt!
Page 97 - ... in the city of New- York alone, than all the South put together. In fact, there is more poverty, prostitution, wretchedness, drunkenness, and all the attending vices, in this city, than the whole South.
Page 67 - At the head of the heap stands JAMES GORDON BENNETT, and by his side stands that engine of terror to all evildoers, the Herald, and there they are likely to remain as firm as the rock of Gibraltar. BENNETT is, unquestionably,
Page 35 - It is an old and true saying that " one half of the world know not how the other half live.