Scribner's Magazine, Volume 54Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan Charles Scribners Sons, 1913 |
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... Mean Pi - rayte , • LEE , VERNON . An English Writer's Notes on England , LEUPP , FRANCIS E. The Progressive Ideal in School Man- agement , Point of View , 648 270 788 JAMES B. CONNOLLY , 744 37 213 177 , 609 , 712 388 LINCOLN , ABRAHAM ...
... Mean Pi - rayte , • LEE , VERNON . An English Writer's Notes on England , LEUPP , FRANCIS E. The Progressive Ideal in School Man- agement , Point of View , 648 270 788 JAMES B. CONNOLLY , 744 37 213 177 , 609 , 712 388 LINCOLN , ABRAHAM ...
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... MEAN PI - RAYTE , THE , Illustrations by Wallace Morgan . MILLER , ALICE DUER . Things , HUGH JOHNSON , PAGE 756 213 • 779 102 MOHAMMEDAN HOLIDAYS , Illustrations from photographs by the author . MURAL PAINTING IN AMERICA ...
... MEAN PI - RAYTE , THE , Illustrations by Wallace Morgan . MILLER , ALICE DUER . Things , HUGH JOHNSON , PAGE 756 213 • 779 102 MOHAMMEDAN HOLIDAYS , Illustrations from photographs by the author . MURAL PAINTING IN AMERICA ...
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... mean sea level . Of its total length only 500 feet , or one- fifteenth , will be exposed to the maximum water head of 85 to 87 feet . It is not one continuous dam but two separate dams , with a hill of solid rock in the centre , through ...
... mean sea level . Of its total length only 500 feet , or one- fifteenth , will be exposed to the maximum water head of 85 to 87 feet . It is not one continuous dam but two separate dams , with a hill of solid rock in the centre , through ...
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... mean you want me to go round and hire a box for you ? " " Oh , no . " Undine coloured at the in- felicitous allusion : besides , she knew now that the smart people who were " musi- cal " went in stalls . " I only want two good seats . I ...
... mean you want me to go round and hire a box for you ? " " Oh , no . " Undine coloured at the in- felicitous allusion : besides , she knew now that the smart people who were " musi- cal " went in stalls . " I only want two good seats . I ...
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... mean . They cost a lot of money : they came from the big- gest place in Paris . " Under Mrs. Heeny's simplifying eye it was comparatively easy to make these explanations . " I want you to try and sell them for me I want you to do the ...
... mean . They cost a lot of money : they came from the big- gest place in Paris . " Under Mrs. Heeny's simplifying eye it was comparatively easy to make these explanations . " I want you to try and sell them for me I want you to do the ...
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Page 322 - ... borne the heat and burden of the war, and who can have in reality very few hardships to complain of; and when we at the same time recollect, that those soldiers, who have lately been furloughed from this army, are the veterans who have patiently endured hunger, nakedness, and cold, who have suffered and bled without a murmur, and who, with perfect good order, have retired to their homes without a settlement of their accounts, or a farthing of money in their pockets...
Page 327 - I told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject ; that, not having yet informed myself of the system of finance adopted, I knew not how far this was a necessary sequence ; that, undoubtedly, if its rejection endangered a dissolution of our Union at this incipient stage, I should deem that the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded.
Page 327 - I proposed to him, however, to dine with me the next day, and I would invite another friend or two, bring them into conference together, and I thought it impossible that reasonable men, consulting together coolly, could fail, by some mutual sacrifices of opinion, to form a compromise which was to save the Union. The discussion took place. I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.
Page 3 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.
Page 322 - While I suffer the most poignant distress in observing that a handful of men, contemptible in numbers, and equally so in point of service, (if the veteran troops from the southward have not been seduced by their example,) and who are not worthy to be called soldiers...
Page 327 - ... him; and that, the question having been lost by a small majority only, it was probable that an appeal from me to the judgment and discretion of some of my friends might effect a change in the vote, and the machine of government, now suspended, might be again set into motion.
Page 112 - I HAD been in and out of Constantinople a good many years before I even heard of the Sacred Caravan. The first I heard of it then was on the Bridge one day, when I became aware of a drum beating out a curious slow rhythm: one, two, three, four, five, six; one, two, three, Jour, five, six.
Page 327 - But it was observed, that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted, to sweeten it a little to them. There had...
Page 629 - And you're all alike,' he exclaimed, 'every one of you. You come among us from a country we don't know, and can't imagine, a country you care for so little that before you've been a day in ours you've forgotten the very house you were born in - if it wasn't torn down before you knew it! You come among us speaking our language and not knowing what we mean; wanting the things we want, and not knowing why we want them; aping our weaknesses, exaggerating our follies, ignoring or ridiculing all we care...
Page 3 - An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.