The Arena, Volume 18Arena Publishing Company, 1897 |
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... important in its relations to the commerce of the nation . This transaction of the twenty - seven - among whom we find the honored names of Barclay , Bleecker , Win- throp , Lawrence , which in themselves and their descendants were ...
... important in its relations to the commerce of the nation . This transaction of the twenty - seven - among whom we find the honored names of Barclay , Bleecker , Win- throp , Lawrence , which in themselves and their descendants were ...
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... importance and real value , the banks and banking houses of Wall Street , and the stock exchange , grew into most important factors in developing the prosperity of the country . Enterprises were originated by able men act- ing under ...
... importance and real value , the banks and banking houses of Wall Street , and the stock exchange , grew into most important factors in developing the prosperity of the country . Enterprises were originated by able men act- ing under ...
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... importance not only in American politics but in the prog- ress of the race . For the cause of bimetallism must commend itself to the intellect and the conscience of the country or it cannot win . Those who have spent some time in an ...
... importance not only in American politics but in the prog- ress of the race . For the cause of bimetallism must commend itself to the intellect and the conscience of the country or it cannot win . Those who have spent some time in an ...
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... important to ascertain what money is , and also whether there is anything which can be used as a substitute for money in such a manner as to affect the general level of prices . Senator John P. Jones , than whom there is no one better ...
... important to ascertain what money is , and also whether there is anything which can be used as a substitute for money in such a manner as to affect the general level of prices . Senator John P. Jones , than whom there is no one better ...
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... important transactions , yet are not money . It is essential to money that its acceptability should be so nearly universal that practically every person in the community who has any product or service to dispose of will freely , gladly ...
... important transactions , yet are not money . It is essential to money that its acceptability should be so nearly universal that practically every person in the community who has any product or service to dispose of will freely , gladly ...
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Page 292 - By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 292 - gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is In virtue, than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 503 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
Page 292 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt : the strong-based promontory Have I made shake ; and by the spurs plucked up The pine and cedar : graves, at my command, Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art...
Page 480 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 136 - It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men.
Page 136 - CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were pa'st.
Page 337 - ... the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public...
Page 41 - So that the value of money, other things being the same, varies inversely as its quantity; every increase of quantity lowering the value, and every diminution raising it, in a ratio exactly equivalent.
Page 615 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.