Penn Monthly Magazine, Volume 12Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall University Press Company, 1881 |
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... Civil Service Reform , -John Andrews Harris , Beyond the Snow Line , -Dr . Paul Gussfeldt , . Bacon : His Motives as a Politician and a Philosopher , Brief Mention , . Books Received , W. R. Claxton , . 561 758 524 665 , 721 928 308 ...
... Civil Service Reform , -John Andrews Harris , Beyond the Snow Line , -Dr . Paul Gussfeldt , . Bacon : His Motives as a Politician and a Philosopher , Brief Mention , . Books Received , W. R. Claxton , . 561 758 524 665 , 721 928 308 ...
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... Civil Service Reform , -Hon . Dorman B. Eaton , Cimabue and Giotto , -W . de Beauvoir Fryer , 32 199 241 574 , 654 · 823 Chloe , To , ( Horace , Book I. , Ode XXIII . , ) -- M . R. 1. , Conditions for Honorable Success in Life - Work ...
... Civil Service Reform , -Hon . Dorman B. Eaton , Cimabue and Giotto , -W . de Beauvoir Fryer , 32 199 241 574 , 654 · 823 Chloe , To , ( Horace , Book I. , Ode XXIII . , ) -- M . R. 1. , Conditions for Honorable Success in Life - Work ...
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... CIVIL Service Reform is attracting a fair share of public atten- tion , and many of our Democratic friends are becoming dimly aware that the interests of the opposition lie in that direction . It is true that the spoils of office ...
... CIVIL Service Reform is attracting a fair share of public atten- tion , and many of our Democratic friends are becoming dimly aware that the interests of the opposition lie in that direction . It is true that the spoils of office ...
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... Civil Service Reformers are awakening to the fact that the reform needed is not in the manner of appointments , but in permanance of tenure . Calhoun denounced the law creating a four years ' tenure , when it was first proposed , as a ...
... Civil Service Reformers are awakening to the fact that the reform needed is not in the manner of appointments , but in permanance of tenure . Calhoun denounced the law creating a four years ' tenure , when it was first proposed , as a ...
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... civil- ization may have come from the union of two different races — one Asiatic , the other African . Asia furnished the brain , Africa both brain and fire , and from the immense vital force of the latter and the intellectual vigor of ...
... civil- ization may have come from the union of two different races — one Asiatic , the other African . Asia furnished the brain , Africa both brain and fire , and from the immense vital force of the latter and the intellectual vigor of ...
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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.