Self Culture, Volumen10Werner Company, 1900 |
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... turn largely upon the absent- mindedness popularly supposed to be char- acteristic of mathematical genius . At the recent presentation of Professor Sylves- ter's portrait to the University , Professor Newcomb dwelt with emphasis upon ...
... turn largely upon the absent- mindedness popularly supposed to be char- acteristic of mathematical genius . At the recent presentation of Professor Sylves- ter's portrait to the University , Professor Newcomb dwelt with emphasis upon ...
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... turns , and one goes up and the other down . This is not a bad simile . The one that is down stays down only un- til the people need him . He comes up refreshed from his retirement . The one that is up knows that in due time he must in turn ...
... turns , and one goes up and the other down . This is not a bad simile . The one that is down stays down only un- til the people need him . He comes up refreshed from his retirement . The one that is up knows that in due time he must in turn ...
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... turn their faces toward Mecca and die of slight wounds . The American soldier has no Mecca but the presidential chair , and to win that he must live . There is nothing he believes in quite so much as himself . The young American is not ...
... turn their faces toward Mecca and die of slight wounds . The American soldier has no Mecca but the presidential chair , and to win that he must live . There is nothing he believes in quite so much as himself . The young American is not ...
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... turn means the control of the boss . In the poorer parts of our great cities the corruption is necessarily greater , owing to the greater need and the facility of bribery . Of course we cannot get along in politics without parties ...
... turn means the control of the boss . In the poorer parts of our great cities the corruption is necessarily greater , owing to the greater need and the facility of bribery . Of course we cannot get along in politics without parties ...
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... turning - points in this struggle in the wil- derness . It was not at all difficult for savage partisanship to shift from one side to the other whenever the fickle na- English for the fur trade with the Indians resulted in pouring into ...
... turning - points in this struggle in the wil- derness . It was not at all difficult for savage partisanship to shift from one side to the other whenever the fickle na- English for the fur trade with the Indians resulted in pouring into ...
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Página 312 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Página 29 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe; Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law; Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Página 400 - Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock and together again, Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall. All down the hills of Habersham, All through the valleys of Hall, The rushes cried Abide, abide...
Página 27 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 400 - As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies : By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness-of God : Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within The range of the marshes, the liberal marshes of Glynn.
Página 440 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had...
Página 400 - Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main. The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn, And a myriad flowers mortally yearn, And the lordly main from beyond the plain Calls o'er the hills of Habersham, Calls through the valleys of Hall.
Página 455 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 139 - The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never be abridged or so construed as to prevent the legislature from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies and subjecting them to public use, the same as the property of individuals...
Página 122 - Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.