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... hand came back skeptics . This same influence shaped the statesmen of Venice . The Venetian Ambassadors were the fore- most in Europe . Their Relations are still studied as the clearest , shrewdest , and wisest statements regarding the ...
... hand came back skeptics . This same influence shaped the statesmen of Venice . The Venetian Ambassadors were the fore- most in Europe . Their Relations are still studied as the clearest , shrewdest , and wisest statements regarding the ...
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... hand , thus escaping the public burdens , but ever absorbing more and more men and women , and thus depriving the ... hands , and in the first years of the seventeenth century all these questions , and various other matters distasteful ...
... hand , thus escaping the public burdens , but ever absorbing more and more men and women , and thus depriving the ... hands , and in the first years of the seventeenth century all these questions , and various other matters distasteful ...
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... hand , the cap- italist - group , numerically weaker , hires newspapers , universities , and legisla- tures , and ... hands of a policeman . Nay , the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhet- oric for the God - given right of ...
... hand , the cap- italist - group , numerically weaker , hires newspapers , universities , and legisla- tures , and ... hands of a policeman . Nay , the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhet- oric for the God - given right of ...
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... hand- labor process in his English factory , invented a machine which he proved capable of displacing several men . But workman after workman was put at the machine , and without exception they turned out neither more nor less than a ...
... hand- labor process in his English factory , invented a machine which he proved capable of displacing several men . But workman after workman was put at the machine , and without exception they turned out neither more nor less than a ...
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... hand , to be a non - scab , to give least for most , is universally branded as stingy , selfish , and unchristian ... hands of such a biographer as Camp- bell , he started up and exclaimed theat- rically , Look to your bandages , all ye ...
... hand , to be a non - scab , to give least for most , is universally branded as stingy , selfish , and unchristian ... hands of such a biographer as Camp- bell , he started up and exclaimed theat- rically , Look to your bandages , all ye ...
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Page 244 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 336 - Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', in allen Wipfeln spürest du kaum einen Hauch; die Vögelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur, balde ruhest du auch.
Page 177 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 711 - The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 692 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 177 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Page 108 - We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years. I had a thought for no one's but your ears : That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love ; That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.
Page 6 - For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man : also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Page 375 - I give no alms only to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God.
Page 337 - ... ,"Go thy ways, and God bless thee, for it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish.