North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 221University of Northern Iowa, 1925 |
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Page 396
... thousand women who are members of the organization which I have the honor to head do not agree with them , and I think this opinion reflects the sentiment of the ma- jority of American women . For America to disarm now.
... thousand women who are members of the organization which I have the honor to head do not agree with them , and I think this opinion reflects the sentiment of the ma- jority of American women . For America to disarm now.
Page 398
... opinion so that the laws in this respect may be carried out . We have the National Defense Act of 1920 , which calls for an adequate but small Regular Army , capable of quick expansion ; a competent National Guard ; an Officers ...
... opinion so that the laws in this respect may be carried out . We have the National Defense Act of 1920 , which calls for an adequate but small Regular Army , capable of quick expansion ; a competent National Guard ; an Officers ...
Page 399
of us would to form a public opinion which would demand that our Navy be kept up and not neglected as it had been , until Con- gress this last winter stirred itself and made a partial reparation in the matter . For three years the ...
of us would to form a public opinion which would demand that our Navy be kept up and not neglected as it had been , until Con- gress this last winter stirred itself and made a partial reparation in the matter . For three years the ...
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... opinion of those sturdy North - Westerners , and can testify that they are beginning to feel resentment against the unfair advantage in the Electoral College which the South enjoys . When an idea like this gets started in the pure air ...
... opinion of those sturdy North - Westerners , and can testify that they are beginning to feel resentment against the unfair advantage in the Electoral College which the South enjoys . When an idea like this gets started in the pure air ...
Page 440
... opinion they will improve service , promote economy of operation , and not restrain competition unduly . It also empowers the Commission to permit one railroad to acquire control over another either under a lease or by the purchase of ...
... opinion they will improve service , promote economy of operation , and not restrain competition unduly . It also empowers the Commission to permit one railroad to acquire control over another either under a lease or by the purchase of ...
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Page 636 - ... presence, aid or instigation is guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or both.
Page 385 - Then, I believe, we need add no more : if he knows himself, he will consider it as the most perfect punishment, that he is known to the world. Chas. Surf. If they talk this way to Honesty, what will they say to me, by and by ? [Aside.
Page 495 - Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. She should have been a man — a great navigator,
Page 553 - Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.
Page 504 - No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Page 515 - It has been before observed that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion...
Page 658 - And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English...
Page 659 - I have always been strongly in favor of secular education, in the sense of education without theology; but I must confess I have been no less seriously perplexed to know by what practical measures the religious feeling, which is the essential basis of conduct, was to be kept up, in the present utterly chaotic state of opinion on these matters, without the use of the Bible.
Page 392 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth, or honors, or for worldly state...
Page 594 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.