The Career of a JournalistB. W. Dodge, 1908 - 529 pages |
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... keep on . " My heart swelled with pride as the other pupils regarded me with envy and admiration . They , simple children that they were , never guessed that for weeks I had been preparing for that essay by reading newspapers . Nor ...
... keep on . " My heart swelled with pride as the other pupils regarded me with envy and admiration . They , simple children that they were , never guessed that for weeks I had been preparing for that essay by reading newspapers . Nor ...
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... keep the paper's circulation above the zero - mark was to print long obituaries after every death notice , no matter who the deceased might be . " The three most impor- tant events in life are birth , marriage and death , " it was ...
... keep the paper's circulation above the zero - mark was to print long obituaries after every death notice , no matter who the deceased might be . " The three most impor- tant events in life are birth , marriage and death , " it was ...
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... keep his intellectual gifts from being recognized and rewarded . But in America it was a bar to almost everything . He taught in public schools for negroes for years . Illness swept away the savings with which he intended to recross the ...
... keep his intellectual gifts from being recognized and rewarded . But in America it was a bar to almost everything . He taught in public schools for negroes for years . Illness swept away the savings with which he intended to recross the ...
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... keeps you from telling . " " I tell you I don't know any , " he declared . " Come off your perch , Colonel ! " I cried , gaily , feeling something like a bird myself , after a sec- ond glass . " Your life was one long succession of hot ...
... keeps you from telling . " " I tell you I don't know any , " he declared . " Come off your perch , Colonel ! " I cried , gaily , feeling something like a bird myself , after a sec- ond glass . " Your life was one long succession of hot ...
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... keep the other train- men quiet . The passenger coaches were not dis- turbed , and few of the people on board were waked up . About twenty - five thousand dollars were sup- posed to have been taken from the express com- pany's safe ...
... keep the other train- men quiet . The passenger coaches were not dis- turbed , and few of the people on board were waked up . About twenty - five thousand dollars were sup- posed to have been taken from the express com- pany's safe ...
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Page 124 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 404 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, . And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe...
Page 440 - THE work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic scale. The title is as long as an ordinary preface : the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library.
Page 365 - I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: "Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin
Page 55 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 83 - Kinsmen, hail ! We severed have been too long : Now let us have done with a worn-out tale. The tale of an ancient wrong. And our friendship last long as love doth last, and be stronger than death is strong.' " Answer them, sons of the self-same race. And blood of the self-same clan ; Let us speak with each other, face to face. And answer as man to man. And loyally love and trust each other as none but free men can.
Page 418 - It was soon discovered that the forms of a free, and the ends of an arbitrary, government, were things not altogether incompatible. The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence. An influence, which operated without...
Page 123 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 54 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Page 84 - We severed have been too long; But now we have done with a worn-out tale, The tale of an ancient wrong, And our friendship last long as love doth last and be stronger than death is strong.