The Arena, Volume 18Arena Publishing Company, 1897 |
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... natural growth , and is therefore inevitable . Wall Street has come by a gentle evolution . Good men and true have conspired with nature to bring it forth . Under natural and necessary condi- tions Wall Street has appeared in our ...
... natural growth , and is therefore inevitable . Wall Street has come by a gentle evolution . Good men and true have conspired with nature to bring it forth . Under natural and necessary condi- tions Wall Street has appeared in our ...
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... nature has been understood for more than two thousand years , and of historic and economic facts which every college fresh- man knows , Mr. Carlisle has the appalling audacity to use the following language : " Natural causes have ...
... nature has been understood for more than two thousand years , and of historic and economic facts which every college fresh- man knows , Mr. Carlisle has the appalling audacity to use the following language : " Natural causes have ...
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... nature ; so that a change of convention between those who use it is sufficient to deprive it of its value and power to satisfy our wants . Adam Smith says : A guinea may be considered a bill for a certain quantity of goods on all the ...
... nature ; so that a change of convention between those who use it is sufficient to deprive it of its value and power to satisfy our wants . Adam Smith says : A guinea may be considered a bill for a certain quantity of goods on all the ...
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... nature and art alike , and with this pure and inspiring love comes the desire for more knowledge . They appeal to the spiritual aspirations even more than to the artistic impulses or the intellectual apprehension . The moral exaltation ...
... nature and art alike , and with this pure and inspiring love comes the desire for more knowledge . They appeal to the spiritual aspirations even more than to the artistic impulses or the intellectual apprehension . The moral exaltation ...
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... nature so sensitive , so finely strung , so keenly alive to the sufferings of others on every hand , has necessarily felt what the well - kept and self- engrossed animals around him knew nothing of . Indeed , just here we find the chief ...
... nature so sensitive , so finely strung , so keenly alive to the sufferings of others on every hand , has necessarily felt what the well - kept and self- engrossed animals around him knew nothing of . Indeed , just here we find the chief ...
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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.