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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 43 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 33 3 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 28 4 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 28 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 24 2 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 15 3 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 8 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 6 0 Browse Search
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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Cold comfort. (search)
tal, we should have a very dying time here in New York every Summer. One set of dog-days would leave Manhattan a desert. Yet, somehow, by virtue of straw hats, linen coats, and ice at discretion, we do, some of us, survive surpassingly high temperatures. We do not call ourselves absolute salamanders — nor Shadrachs, Meshachs, and Abednegos — but we do not believe that the fiery sunbeams of Secessia will quite singe the hair off our soldiers' heads, nor that our braves will be driven to Sydney Smith's extremity, of getting out of their flesh to sit, or stand, or do battle in their bones. Somehow, we can not think of our gallant fellows advancing with fans in one hand and the rifle in the other. Thus far in more than one fight, they have shown themselves cool enough. We hope it will not be entirely different in June. It is curious to notice the fatuity with which the Rebels rely upon Hot Weather and the Yellow Fever. It would be still more curious to see them upon their knees p