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MEMOIRS OF THE HOLY LAND.
THE PALACES OF FRANCE.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
"WHO MURDERED DOWNIE?"
FRAGMENTS FROM A YOUNG WIFE'S DIARY.
A SOLDIER'S FIRST BATTLE.
MEMORY AND ITS CAPRICES.
BLEAK HOUSE.
MONSTERS OF FAITH.
LIFE AND DEATH OF PAGANINI.
NUMBER NINETEEN IN OUR STREET.
GOSSIP ABOUT GREAT MEN.
MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE.
A SHORT CHAPTER ON RATS.
A DARK CHAPTER FROM THE DIARY OF A LAW CLERK.
Monthly Record of Current Events
Editor's Table.
Editor's Easy Chair.
Editor's Drawer.
Literary Notices.
Comicalities, Original and Selected.
Autumn Fashions.
BY JACOB ABBOTT.
How strongly associated in the minds of men,are the ideas of guilt and ruin, unspeakableand awful, with the names of Sodom and Gomorrah.The very words themselves seem deeplyand indelibly imbued with a mysterious anddreadful meaning.
[1] Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year1852, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of theDistrict Court of the Southern District of New York.
The account given in the Sacred Scripturesof the destruction of these cities, and of the circumstancesconnected with it, has, perhaps, exerciseda greater influence in modifying, or,rather, in forming, the conception which hasbeen since entertained among mankind in respectto the character of God, than any otherone portion of the sacred narrative. The thingthat is most remarkable about it is, that whilein the destruction of the cities we have a mostappalling exhibition of the terrible energy withwhich God will punish confirmed and obduratewickedness