Library of Southern Literature: BiographyEdwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent Martin & Hoyt Company, 1910 |
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Page 5156
... English Law TAYLOR , RICHARD ( 1826-1879 ) BY CHARLES E. FENNER Secession Dick Ewell Stonewall Jackson Robert E. Lee The Acadians General Forrest A Virginia Breakfast and Mint - Julep Tom Strother , My Body Servant Albert Sidney ...
... English Law TAYLOR , RICHARD ( 1826-1879 ) BY CHARLES E. FENNER Secession Dick Ewell Stonewall Jackson Robert E. Lee The Acadians General Forrest A Virginia Breakfast and Mint - Julep Tom Strother , My Body Servant Albert Sidney ...
Page 5164
... English in that institution , a posi- tion which he still holds . In 1884 he received priest's orders . His sight has now failed entirely , but the loss nowise abates the sunny cheerfulness of his spirit . Father Tabb's poems are all ...
... English in that institution , a posi- tion which he still holds . In 1884 he received priest's orders . His sight has now failed entirely , but the loss nowise abates the sunny cheerfulness of his spirit . Father Tabb's poems are all ...
Page 5179
... English Con- stitution ' was materially enhanced by his treatise on ' International Public Law , ' which has been declared by a high authority to be the most exhaustive work of its kind issued in this country since Dana's ' Wheaton ...
... English Con- stitution ' was materially enhanced by his treatise on ' International Public Law , ' which has been declared by a high authority to be the most exhaustive work of its kind issued in this country since Dana's ' Wheaton ...
Page 5180
... English Constitution , ' which was Dr. Taylor's first important work , was begun shortly after he had attained his majority , and to its composition he devoted about twenty years . His was the first attempt ever made by an American to ...
... English Constitution , ' which was Dr. Taylor's first important work , was begun shortly after he had attained his majority , and to its composition he devoted about twenty years . His was the first attempt ever made by an American to ...
Page 5182
... English law of world - wide importance . This dis- covery , set forth in a single sentence , is that " out of the blending of Roman and English law there is rapidly arising a typical state- law system whose outer shell is English public ...
... English law of world - wide importance . This dis- covery , set forth in a single sentence , is that " out of the blending of Roman and English law there is rapidly arising a typical state- law system whose outer shell is English public ...
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Page 5594 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Page 5597 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 5556 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 5556 - No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
Page 5408 - In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stone!
Page 5561 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother : but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him. and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Page 5581 - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Page 5208 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 5586 - A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side.
Page 5358 - Who climbed the blue Virginian hills Against embattled foes, And planted there, in valleys fair, The lily and the rose; Whose fragrance lives in many lands, Whose beauty stars the earth, And lights the hearths of...