Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 107Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1924 |
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... less well spoken , more or less effective ; that is , in their appeal to the audience of the move- ment . For the ex - premier it may justly be claimed that he has never lied ; for a lie is a deviation from the truth . One cannot stray ...
... less well spoken , more or less effective ; that is , in their appeal to the audience of the move- ment . For the ex - premier it may justly be claimed that he has never lied ; for a lie is a deviation from the truth . One cannot stray ...
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... less than Mr. Shaw's luck , paid penal- ties for pungence . To be quotable is to be misquoted . It once seemed that shuttling crippled quotations of Mrs. Gilman was an established indoor sport . So much for being a radical . The ...
... less than Mr. Shaw's luck , paid penal- ties for pungence . To be quotable is to be misquoted . It once seemed that shuttling crippled quotations of Mrs. Gilman was an established indoor sport . So much for being a radical . The ...
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... less serious . A Thoreau or a Walt Whit- man will make less trouble than an Altgeld . Even a Thomas Paine could not hurt like a Debs . All radicals share the chance that civilization will catch up with them . The radical of Nazareth may ...
... less serious . A Thoreau or a Walt Whit- man will make less trouble than an Altgeld . Even a Thomas Paine could not hurt like a Debs . All radicals share the chance that civilization will catch up with them . The radical of Nazareth may ...
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... less a vale of tears when it is regarded less as prepa- ration and more as opportunity . She can say " man - made , " here as else- where , without giving the phrase a sharp flavor . No champion of the woman side has ever been freer ...
... less a vale of tears when it is regarded less as prepa- ration and more as opportunity . She can say " man - made , " here as else- where , without giving the phrase a sharp flavor . No champion of the woman side has ever been freer ...
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... less , so that F I could possibly live long enough less , so that even our native cart made forget the Kremlin in Moscow , the Temple of Heaven in Peking , the Roman Forum , yes , even the Acropo- lis , before I would forget my first ...
... less , so that F I could possibly live long enough less , so that even our native cart made forget the Kremlin in Moscow , the Temple of Heaven in Peking , the Roman Forum , yes , even the Acropo- lis , before I would forget my first ...
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Page 378 - I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Page 529 - I am here, therefore, to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me, for what in law is a deliberate crime and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen.
Page 530 - The law is no respecter of persons. Nevertheless, it will be impossible to ignore the fact that you are in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try. It would be impossible to ignore the fact that, in the eyes of millions of your countrymen, you are a great patriot and a great leader. Even those who differ from you in politics look upon you as a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life.
Page 604 - ... the high wood, and a long hanging wood called The Hanger. The covert of this eminence is altogether beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs.
Page 564 - This is a dead scene forever now. Nothing will ever stir. The end will never brighten it more than this, Nor the rain blur. The water will always fall, and will not fall, And the tipped bell make no sound. The grass will always be growing for hay Deep on the ground. And I shall stand here like a shadow Under the great balanced day, My eyes on the yellow dust that was lifting in the wind, And does not drift away.
Page 762 - ... not able to endure. But strange to see, when women and men here, that live all the season in these waters, cannot but be parboiled, and look like the creatures of the bath ! Carried away, wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair, home ; and there one after another thus carried, I staying above two hours in the water, home to bed, sweating for an hour ; and by and by, comes musick to play to me, extraordinary good as ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere : 5«.
Page 380 - To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
Page 103 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?
Page 530 - There are probably few people in India, who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty.
Page 539 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.