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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 14 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. 4 0 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.) 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. 4 0 Browse Search
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River and Gillie's Creek, and Shockoe, and Westham, and Falling Creeks — all proper streams enough, and wanting nothing but immortal song to make them immortal — anything but vulgar? Suppose we take a hero, Smith, famous for killing Indians, as Achilles was famed for killing Trojans, and place him in a similar predicament with Achilles, when Simois and Xanthus joined streams to overwhelm him — suppose we put him in the falls of James River near Haxall's mills — what muse will condescend, upon oAchilles, when Simois and Xanthus joined streams to overwhelm him — suppose we put him in the falls of James River near Haxall's mills — what muse will condescend, upon our invitation, to sing the horrors of the "Diving Rock," or the dark mystery that closes around "Little Hell?" What divinity shall we invoke to out the knot of the difficulty when we shall have once gotten him in the water? And our mountains; noble mountains they are, beyond a doubt. Ida was not more worthy to be the favorite resort of Jupiter, than some of them. Olym?us certainly did not better deserve to be the home of all the Gods; the place where Vulcan constructed palaces for them a