College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin Macmillan, 1914 - 653 páginas |
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... facts . The thought of Columbus was a reasoned conclusion . It marked the close of study into facts , of scrutiny and revision of evidence , of working out the implications of various hypotheses , and of comparing these theoretical ...
... facts . The thought of Columbus was a reasoned conclusion . It marked the close of study into facts , of scrutiny and revision of evidence , of working out the implications of various hypotheses , and of comparing these theoretical ...
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... fact that to - day the greater or more important instruments of pro- duction are owned by individuals called capitalists , who hire thousands of men to work for them , and who manage industry with an eye only to their individual profit ...
... fact that to - day the greater or more important instruments of pro- duction are owned by individuals called capitalists , who hire thousands of men to work for them , and who manage industry with an eye only to their individual profit ...
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... no doubt , to the fact that a large number of socialists oppose , not religion , but the activity of the Church in behalf of the interests of the capitalist class and in opposition to economic and political reforms . ΙΟ DEFINITIONS.
... no doubt , to the fact that a large number of socialists oppose , not religion , but the activity of the Church in behalf of the interests of the capitalist class and in opposition to economic and political reforms . ΙΟ DEFINITIONS.
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... fact in no small degree guide and dominate the committees to which they have been assigned . Business is more like business , because less formal and less touched with party feeling in the committee rooms than on the floor of the House ...
... fact in no small degree guide and dominate the committees to which they have been assigned . Business is more like business , because less formal and less touched with party feeling in the committee rooms than on the floor of the House ...
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... fact that the control board is a working miniature of the lock which it operates shows the operator the actual condition of gates , height of water , etc. , and , consequently , having the whole condition in miniature under his eye , he ...
... fact that the control board is a working miniature of the lock which it operates shows the operator the actual condition of gates , height of water , etc. , and , consequently , having the whole condition in miniature under his eye , he ...
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Página 192 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Página 548 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 544 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 209 - ... that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families...
Página 237 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Página 568 - Theirs be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold ; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould. Of the maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold — Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told.
Página 131 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 387 - ... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the seanymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst.
Página 215 - ... amidst the lightning of the sea, its thin masts written upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hue which signs the sky with horror and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight, and, cast far along the desolate heave of the sepulchral waves, incarnadines the multitudinous sea.
Página 6 - Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which it tends constitutes reflective thought.