Penn Monthly Magazine, Volume 12Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall University Press Company, 1881 |
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... German Prison Society is not , as with us , a gathering of philanthropists , but it is an active association of all prison officers , high and low , whose training is special and whose efficiency is proportioned to the labor taken to ...
... German Prison Society is not , as with us , a gathering of philanthropists , but it is an active association of all prison officers , high and low , whose training is special and whose efficiency is proportioned to the labor taken to ...
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... German , spent several years . there and published his travels a few years ago . He tells of cities and cultivated farms and schools ; the Mahomedan being the re- ligion , and the Arabic the language , of the most intelligent of the ...
... German , spent several years . there and published his travels a few years ago . He tells of cities and cultivated farms and schools ; the Mahomedan being the re- ligion , and the Arabic the language , of the most intelligent of the ...
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... German Theologians are the Christian writers who came the nearest to a cor- rect theory of the matter , because they are the nearest to Buddhism . Other Christian mystics fall short , by their disposition to emphas- ize the idea of a ...
... German Theologians are the Christian writers who came the nearest to a cor- rect theory of the matter , because they are the nearest to Buddhism . Other Christian mystics fall short , by their disposition to emphas- ize the idea of a ...
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... German by Elizabeth McClellan . Cloth . 12mo . Pp . 454. Price $ 2.00 . Philadelphia : Ig . Kohler . All Round the Year , Verses from Sky Farm . Elaine and Dora Read Goodale . Cloth . 16mo . Pp . 204. Price $ 1.25 . New York : G. P. ...
... German by Elizabeth McClellan . Cloth . 12mo . Pp . 454. Price $ 2.00 . Philadelphia : Ig . Kohler . All Round the Year , Verses from Sky Farm . Elaine and Dora Read Goodale . Cloth . 16mo . Pp . 204. Price $ 1.25 . New York : G. P. ...
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... German and American newspapers , but wrong - headed theo- ries of the sphere and duties of the Government in the correction of social evils , -which evils he assails with just as much emphasis when represented by Gentiles . And this we ...
... German and American newspapers , but wrong - headed theo- ries of the sphere and duties of the Government in the correction of social evils , -which evils he assails with just as much emphasis when represented by Gentiles . And this we ...
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Page 450 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter...
Page 785 - T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave; No ban of endless night exiles the brave; And to the saner mind We rather seem the dead that stayed behind.
Page 583 - But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it.
Page 929 - Upon advised consideration of the charges," said he, " descending into my own conscience, and calling my memory to account so far as I am able, I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence.
Page 208 - Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon.
Page 123 - And so it remains to all time a lasting record of human needs and human consolations ; the voice of a brother who, ages ago, felt, and suffered, and renounced, in the cloister, perhaps, with serge gown and tonsured head, with much chanting and long fasts, and with a fashion of speech different from ours, but under the same silent far-off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same strivings, the same failures, the same weariness.
Page 214 - That this his labour has found hitherto, in money or money's worth, small recompense or none ; that he is by no means sure of its ever finding recompense, but thinks that, if so, it will be at a distant time, when he, the labourer, will probably no longer be in need of money, and those dear to him will still be in need of it.
Page 507 - ... the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important, and what duty more pressing on its legislature, than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those, who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
Page 205 - I arose and wrestled with them in travail and agony of spirit. Whether I ate I know not ; whether I slept I know not ; I only know that when I came forth again it was with the direful persuasion that I was the miserable owner of a diabolical arrangement, called a 'stomach; and I have never been free from that knowledge from that hour to this, and I suppose that I never shall be until I am laid away in my grave.
Page 861 - ... and of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by said Commission.