Bay State Monthly, Volume 4New England Magazine Company, 1891 |
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Page 40
... whole mechanism so care- fully devised for recording the messages was soon discovered to be useless . Opera- tors began to read by sound , as they still do , and the register under ordinary con- ditions fell into disuse . The telegraph ...
... whole mechanism so care- fully devised for recording the messages was soon discovered to be useless . Opera- tors began to read by sound , as they still do , and the register under ordinary con- ditions fell into disuse . The telegraph ...
Page 41
... whole truth is that the Old World paid little attention in the thirties to what was going on in America . For , while many ( American ) writers agree in saying , that the researches of Henry in electro - magnetism gave him at once a ...
... whole truth is that the Old World paid little attention in the thirties to what was going on in America . For , while many ( American ) writers agree in saying , that the researches of Henry in electro - magnetism gave him at once a ...
Page 42
... whole time and attention to it . reasons which are now well understood , his hopes were destined to disappoint- ment . Still he accomplished much , and succeeded in convincing a Senate Com- mittee , of which Mr. Benton was Chair- man ...
... whole time and attention to it . reasons which are now well understood , his hopes were destined to disappoint- ment . Still he accomplished much , and succeeded in convincing a Senate Com- mittee , of which Mr. Benton was Chair- man ...
Page 47
... whole diffi- culty lay in the fact that the Easter gift had been forced to show its bloom , and was utterly worthless a week later , instead of being nursed in a pot with proper in- structions . The gift of another , better started ...
... whole diffi- culty lay in the fact that the Easter gift had been forced to show its bloom , and was utterly worthless a week later , instead of being nursed in a pot with proper in- structions . The gift of another , better started ...
Page 48
... whole subject to the Window Garden Committee . Following the spirit of the resolution , circulars were at once issued to principals of high schools and to superintendants through- out the state , asking their co - operation in ...
... whole subject to the Window Garden Committee . Following the spirit of the resolution , circulars were at once issued to principals of high schools and to superintendants through- out the state , asking their co - operation in ...
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Page 367 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 406 - ... modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury.
Page 97 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning.
Page 406 - The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontry.
Page 463 - Next to the fugitives whom Moses led out of Egypt, the little ship-load of outcasts who landed at Plymouth two centuries and a half ago are destined to influence the future of the world.
Page 32 - To determine the question whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently.
Page 586 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
Page 535 - Successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 175 - When, in the sublime lessons of Christianity, he (the slaveholder) is taught to "do unto others as he would have others do unto him," HE NEVER DREAMS THAT THE DEGRADED NEGRO IS WITHIN THE PALE OF THAT HOLY CANON.
Page 142 - Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter...