Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 338
d the staircase was never built whichis broad enough for two families; if the street is not a family street, and the seething and tur-bid tide of city life wells and swells past itsdoor, then neither the family nor the childrenwill be comfortable. The city has failed. It may, like Paris, fill its… … OLD SWEDISH CHIRCH. there whose glory is as of the sun; it may lineits ways with palaces, and draw to it all theworlds wealth and wonder; but, for all this, fail-ure is its portion. Families are not comforta-ble within its walls. Children are not at sweetease in its ways. It has failed. Its day…
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