The Arena, Volume 18Arena Publishing Company, 1897 |
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... ment , the million will go on increasing ; and in the same manner will our half - billion increase by its own earning power , and by contributions from all parts of the Union . The development of the United States in the direction of ...
... ment , the million will go on increasing ; and in the same manner will our half - billion increase by its own earning power , and by contributions from all parts of the Union . The development of the United States in the direction of ...
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... ment , which the world had been trying to accomplish for nearly twenty years , might soon be secured on an acceptable basis . It has long been suspected that the strongest discouragement of this hope , and probably the determining ...
... ment , which the world had been trying to accomplish for nearly twenty years , might soon be secured on an acceptable basis . It has long been suspected that the strongest discouragement of this hope , and probably the determining ...
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... ment , that sincere and moving eloquence , which made his foren- sic style so singularly effective ; which marked him the parlia mentary darling of his party , a predestined president of the republic ? Shrunken to the dreary platitudes ...
... ment , that sincere and moving eloquence , which made his foren- sic style so singularly effective ; which marked him the parlia mentary darling of his party , a predestined president of the republic ? Shrunken to the dreary platitudes ...
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... ment of $ 1,600,000,000 of the debt or by bankruptcy proceed- ings or in some other manner . If that amount of the credits were extinguished by payment , business would be stimulated . That sum of money , or at least a considerable ...
... ment of $ 1,600,000,000 of the debt or by bankruptcy proceed- ings or in some other manner . If that amount of the credits were extinguished by payment , business would be stimulated . That sum of money , or at least a considerable ...
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... ment founded by the countrymen of King Alfred the Great , their expansion , and the invaluable expression of those princi- ples in the Declaration and the Constitution . Some of the bravest and best under the French monarchy helped to ...
... ment founded by the countrymen of King Alfred the Great , their expansion , and the invaluable expression of those princi- ples in the Declaration and the Constitution . Some of the bravest and best under the French monarchy helped to ...
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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.