Forum, Volume 11Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Arthur Hooley, Frederic Taber Cooper, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond Forum Publishing Company, 1891 |
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... called upon to meet is not a result of this system , but of the fact that the extraordinary pro- duction of silver has worked a reduction of its value in compari- son with gold . In 1860 silver was more valuable than gold , measured in ...
... called upon to meet is not a result of this system , but of the fact that the extraordinary pro- duction of silver has worked a reduction of its value in compari- son with gold . In 1860 silver was more valuable than gold , measured in ...
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... called " wars of calculation , " as worse than absurdities , even apart from moral considerations . " On balancing the account of such wars , ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten thousand times their price . " This is ...
... called " wars of calculation , " as worse than absurdities , even apart from moral considerations . " On balancing the account of such wars , ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten thousand times their price . " This is ...
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... called " Anglo - Saxon , " I cannot by any means admit . My primary duty is to my own nationality , and in nothing that I have said do I mean to assume that we are in the wrong in questions that now agitate Downing Street not less than ...
... called " Anglo - Saxon , " I cannot by any means admit . My primary duty is to my own nationality , and in nothing that I have said do I mean to assume that we are in the wrong in questions that now agitate Downing Street not less than ...
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... called this phrase " the great enigma of history . " But among the many meanings assigned to it , two only , perhaps , need be mentioned for our pres- ent purpose . It may mean a nation , as it does when we speak of the English , the ...
... called this phrase " the great enigma of history . " But among the many meanings assigned to it , two only , perhaps , need be mentioned for our pres- ent purpose . It may mean a nation , as it does when we speak of the English , the ...
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... called democracy , or government by numbers , is an accomplished fact , and universal suffrage is its accepted form . The doctrine which my enthusiastic young friend called the people's gospel " is , not that this is a kind of polity ...
... called democracy , or government by numbers , is an accomplished fact , and universal suffrage is its accepted form . The doctrine which my enthusiastic young friend called the people's gospel " is , not that this is a kind of polity ...
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Page 368 - I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, Begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made...
Page 367 - Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you : and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Page 368 - Heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And He shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose Kingdom shall have no end.
Page 235 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Page 236 - It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the exercise of the authority which it gives.
Page 48 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Page 558 - ... it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Page 585 - ... is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto...
Page 446 - I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be.
Page 368 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets.