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... things . We lead the world in machinery and in ingenious inventions , and some of our paintings were excellent ... thing near the amount that was lost during the war . Our exports are about two hundred million dollars more than our ...
... things . We lead the world in machinery and in ingenious inventions , and some of our paintings were excellent ... thing near the amount that was lost during the war . Our exports are about two hundred million dollars more than our ...
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... things resumed long ago — that is to say , they have touched the bottom . Now , there is no doubt that the party ... thing we must do , though . We have got to put more silver in our dollars . I do not think you can blame the New York ...
... things resumed long ago — that is to say , they have touched the bottom . Now , there is no doubt that the party ... thing we must do , though . We have got to put more silver in our dollars . I do not think you can blame the New York ...
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... things that have happened . They are scientific because they are filled with facts , and they are literary of course . I can conceive of no address that is neither historical nor scientific , except sermons . They fail to be historical ...
... things that have happened . They are scientific because they are filled with facts , and they are literary of course . I can conceive of no address that is neither historical nor scientific , except sermons . They fail to be historical ...
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... things come out in this world when I am dead . There are some people I would like to see again , and hope there are ... thing I shall know is that I am alive , and if nothing is left , nothing will be left to know that I am dead ; so ...
... things come out in this world when I am dead . There are some people I would like to see again , and hope there are ... thing I shall know is that I am alive , and if nothing is left , nothing will be left to know that I am dead ; so ...
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... together upon who runs against him . The condition of things has changed greatly in our favor since 1876. — The jour- nal , Indianapolis , Ind . , November , 1879 . POLITICS , RELIGION AND THOMAS PAINE . Question . You INTERVIEWS . 27.
... together upon who runs against him . The condition of things has changed greatly in our favor since 1876. — The jour- nal , Indianapolis , Ind . , November , 1879 . POLITICS , RELIGION AND THOMAS PAINE . Question . You INTERVIEWS . 27.
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Page 18 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word ; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath,
Page 41 - ... vines blossom. His brain is controlled by his heart. He thinks in pictures. With him logic means mental melody. The discordant is the absurd. For years he has endeavored to hide the dungeon of orthodoxy with the ivy of imagination. Now and then he pulls for a moment the leafy curtain aside and is horrified to see the lizards, snakes, basilisks and abnormal monsters of the orthodox age, and then he utters a great cry, the protest of a loving, throbbing heart. He is a great thinker, a marvelous...
Page 398 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Page 266 - That an alien may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States in the following manner and not otherwise: First.
Page i - He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were...
Page 433 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia...
Page 202 - ... a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to undergo imprisonment not exceeding two years at the discretion of the court.
Page 433 - By this act it was provided that its provisions should not apply to professional actors, artists, lecturers or singers, in regard to persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants. The object now in view is so to amend the law that its provisions shall apply to all actors except stars.
Page 219 - Republican party must take the old ground that it is the duty of the Federal Government to protect the citizens, and that it cannot simply leave that duty to the State. It must see to it that the State performs that duty. Question. Have you seen the published report that Dorsey claims to have paid you one hundred thousand dollars for your services in the Star Route Cases ? Answer.
Page 49 - There is more intellectual liberty in the United States to-day than ever before. The people are beginning to see that every citizen ought to have the right to express himself freely upon every possible subject. In a little while, all the barbarous laws that now disgrace the statute books of the States by discriminating against a man simply because he is honest, will be repealed, and there will be one country where all citizens will have and enjoy not only equal rights, but all rights. Nothing gratifies...