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... present work . They would call atten- tion , however , to the fact that a considerable proportion of longer compositions - descriptive , narrative , and argument- ative are provided for in the exercises , the necessary additional theory ...
... present work . They would call atten- tion , however , to the fact that a considerable proportion of longer compositions - descriptive , narrative , and argument- ative are provided for in the exercises , the necessary additional theory ...
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... present , for my lord had furnished me with money , on purpose , because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them . I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder , who likewise showed me a treatise he had ...
... present , for my lord had furnished me with money , on purpose , because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them . I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder , who likewise showed me a treatise he had ...
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... present fades into the past . And I believe it pos- sible to discover a law out of all this apparently chaotic whirl and bustle , this tangled skein of human affairs , as it spins itself through the centuries . That law is Progress ...
... present fades into the past . And I believe it pos- sible to discover a law out of all this apparently chaotic whirl and bustle , this tangled skein of human affairs , as it spins itself through the centuries . That law is Progress ...
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... presents a perfect democracy , the oli- garchs leading in the popular movement - - a social system compact and closely knitted , less splendid on the surface , but stronger at the core — a hundred farms for every plantation , fifty ...
... presents a perfect democracy , the oli- garchs leading in the popular movement - - a social system compact and closely knitted , less splendid on the surface , but stronger at the core — a hundred farms for every plantation , fifty ...
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... present . It thus becomes “ Amusements of the Pres- ent Day . " If a limitation of place be made , the subject may become , " Amusements in the United States , " or " Amusements in the Place where I Live , " or " Amuse- ments at Our ...
... present . It thus becomes “ Amusements of the Pres- ent Day . " If a limitation of place be made , the subject may become , " Amusements in the United States , " or " Amusements in the Place where I Live , " or " Amuse- ments at Our ...
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Page 297 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Page 227 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Page 386 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 373 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 138 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 212 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 387 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 370 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean, unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
Page 107 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 212 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union...