The Nation, Volume 16J.H. Richards, 1873 - Current events |
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... known ; he made no attempt to deny that he had broken the law , but pleaded the necessity of the case . He at first appointed a great number of bankers , including the whole of the national banks in this country , as agents for the sale ...
... known ; he made no attempt to deny that he had broken the law , but pleaded the necessity of the case . He at first appointed a great number of bankers , including the whole of the national banks in this country , as agents for the sale ...
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... known to modern society . " Of course , there is hardly a family in the country which has not had , in its own experience , illustrations of the extravagance of these charges . There is probably nobody who has long kept servants who has ...
... known to modern society . " Of course , there is hardly a family in the country which has not had , in its own experience , illustrations of the extravagance of these charges . There is probably nobody who has long kept servants who has ...
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... known to Anglo - Saxon jurisprudence , but it would , we imagine , sound very familiarly in South America or in France , and is of the kind constantly heard there in the mouths of prefects and commanding officers . Indeed , we could not ...
... known to Anglo - Saxon jurisprudence , but it would , we imagine , sound very familiarly in South America or in France , and is of the kind constantly heard there in the mouths of prefects and commanding officers . Indeed , we could not ...
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... known that he did . Another passage will be found amusing , and worth all the Swiss scene- painting put together : " From Strassburg they went by rail on the 8th to Bâle , from which they started for Lausanne next day in three coaches ...
... known that he did . Another passage will be found amusing , and worth all the Swiss scene- painting put together : " From Strassburg they went by rail on the 8th to Bâle , from which they started for Lausanne next day in three coaches ...
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... known to the Spanish Government " without giving offence , " and threatening that if its remonstrances are not heeded Spain may look for a " marked change in the feeling and in the temper of the people and of the Government of the ...
... known to the Spanish Government " without giving offence , " and threatening that if its remonstrances are not heeded Spain may look for a " marked change in the feeling and in the temper of the people and of the Government of the ...
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Page 278 - States in the legislative bodies which claimed to be in their normal relations with the federal government, were laws which imposed upon the colored race onerous disabilities and burdens, and curtailed their rights in the pursuit of life, liberty, and property to such an extent that their freedom was of little value...
Page 278 - Not only may a man be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of a state, but an important element is necessary to convert the former into the latter. He must reside within the state to make him a citizen of it, but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.
Page 76 - Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heartbeats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
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Page 252 - But my delight in going over Homer and Virgil with the boys makes me think what a treat it must be to teach Shakespeare to a good class of young Greeks in regenerate Athens ; to dwell upon him line by line, and word by word, in the way that nothing but a translation lesson ever will enable one to do; and so to get all his pictures and thoughts leisurely into one's mind, till I verily think one would after a time almost give out light in the dark, after having been steeped as it were in such an atmosphere...
Page 76 - But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
Page 278 - If, then, there is a difference between the privileges and immunities belonging to a citizen of the United States as such, and those belonging to the citizen of the State as such, the latter must rest for their security and protection where they have heretofore rested, for they are not embraced by this paragraph of the amendment. The first occurrence of the words privileges and immunities...
Page 150 - I have:' looking very hard at me the while, for he had told me with some pride coming down that it was his composition. 'Oh !' said the clergyman. 'Then you will agree with me, Mr. C, that it is not only an insult to me, who am the servant of the Almighty, but an insult to the Almighty, whose servant I am.
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