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... writes of what Madame Blavatsky was to him : - Two years ago Annie Besant and I saw H. P. B. for the first time , and now it is not many days since I stood by her lily - covered coffin and took my last lingering look at the per ...
... writes of what Madame Blavatsky was to him : - Two years ago Annie Besant and I saw H. P. B. for the first time , and now it is not many days since I stood by her lily - covered coffin and took my last lingering look at the per ...
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... writes an article in the North American Review for June , entitled " Brutality and Avarice Triumphant , " in which he declares that " Plunder Made Easy " ought to be the motto of the United States : - - From the beginning of the ...
... writes an article in the North American Review for June , entitled " Brutality and Avarice Triumphant , " in which he declares that " Plunder Made Easy " ought to be the motto of the United States : - - From the beginning of the ...
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... writes to her favourite brother , " We have been married for eleven days , I have just counted them on my fingers . We have only quar- relled twice and luckily " ( the handwriting of her husband interpolates ) " the fault was all on my ...
... writes to her favourite brother , " We have been married for eleven days , I have just counted them on my fingers . We have only quar- relled twice and luckily " ( the handwriting of her husband interpolates ) " the fault was all on my ...
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... writes to the editor : - Let me express to you my ardent admiration for the strong moral tone you are breathing into the Arena . It is certainly one of the most hopeful and significant signs of the times that two such magazines as the ...
... writes to the editor : - Let me express to you my ardent admiration for the strong moral tone you are breathing into the Arena . It is certainly one of the most hopeful and significant signs of the times that two such magazines as the ...
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... writes on " The Chivalry of the Press , " in an article the chief point of which is that the defeat of Horace Greeley in his candidature for the Presidency , represented the revolt of the people against the dictation of the press , and ...
... writes on " The Chivalry of the Press , " in an article the chief point of which is that the defeat of Horace Greeley in his candidature for the Presidency , represented the revolt of the people against the dictation of the press , and ...
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Page 238 - he pierced the hollow sham of a Christianity which maintained such horrors. It occurs in the " Lines on the Present Crisis " :— Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause,
Page 127 - ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. Kaiser Wilhelm is not Kubla Khan, but there is
Page 241 - for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, ' Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own. It was in that faith we fought and in that faith
Page 434 - chapter is closed, and over the grave in Glasnevin we, at least, have no desire to recall anything but his services to the cause of Ireland. " For know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel
Page 21 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied. There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch ; this pitch, as ancient
Page 363 - lead. Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on : The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on : Keep Thou my
Page 238 - blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, .And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. The only objection to make to this verse is that the choice does not come once only. It is of constant recurrence. Whenever a duty is shirked, there Christ is rejected. Whenever we act knowingly and deliberately as
Page 127 - dream :— With music loud and long I would build that dome in air— That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 296 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the Government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females.)
Page 414 - random wrong," but that is only because we have not yet had any one who •could draw the knighthood errant of this realm, and all the realms together, " to serve as model for the mighty world, and be the fair beginning of a time.