The Bookman, Volume 22Dodd, Mead and Company, 1906 |
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... mind of the average person , and in the end lead to further barbarisms . Per- haps after a while we shall hear not merely of " offsprings " and " crafts , " but less esteemed Sun of this city has officially of " sheeps " and " shads ...
... mind of the average person , and in the end lead to further barbarisms . Per- haps after a while we shall hear not merely of " offsprings " and " crafts , " but less esteemed Sun of this city has officially of " sheeps " and " shads ...
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... mind he would get my address from the publishers . When my letter came he showed it to her and then he came . He hoped I would forgive the liberty he took . It was a wonderful story and he just couldn't help it . I could say nothing ...
... mind he would get my address from the publishers . When my letter came he showed it to her and then he came . He hoped I would forgive the liberty he took . It was a wonderful story and he just couldn't help it . I could say nothing ...
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... mind had been already framed and would be promptly submitted to the Con- gress . This measure was not to be un- duly radical - not providing as yet for a tariff for revenue only . The country could not in a moment cast aside every ...
... mind had been already framed and would be promptly submitted to the Con- gress . This measure was not to be un- duly radical - not providing as yet for a tariff for revenue only . The country could not in a moment cast aside every ...
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... mind their sugar - growing constituency , insisted that raw sugar must be taxed . Without their votes , the bill could probably not be carried at all , so close was the division . Furthermore , other Senators believed that such a duty ...
... mind their sugar - growing constituency , insisted that raw sugar must be taxed . Without their votes , the bill could probably not be carried at all , so close was the division . Furthermore , other Senators believed that such a duty ...
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... mind the author's intention to discard the point of view of the mere legalist and constitutionalist and to choose that of the practical observer , seeking to penetrate below the surface to the heart of things . Who , then , " selected ...
... mind the author's intention to discard the point of view of the mere legalist and constitutionalist and to choose that of the practical observer , seeking to penetrate below the surface to the heart of things . Who , then , " selected ...
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Page 205 - I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Page 199 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight.
Page 126 - States to resist by every means in its power as a willful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela. "In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow.
Page 351 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : " You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns ; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 350 - The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer ; the attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis ; the merchant at the cross-roads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York ; the farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils all day...
Page 581 - I even go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply purchased if in a great and noble cause the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack should wave together over an Anglo-Saxon alliance.
Page 350 - ... who by the application of brain and muscle to the natural resources of the country creates wealth, is as much a business man as the man who goes upon the board of trade and bets upon the price of grain; the miners who go down a thousand feet into the earth, or climb two thousand feet upon the cliffs, and bring forth from their hiding...
Page 477 - In view of these facts and of these considerations. I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the Government of Spain and the people of Cuba...
Page 348 - We are unalterably opposed to monometallism, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It is not only un-American but antiAmerican, and it can be fastened on the United States only by the stifling of that...
Page 344 - Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy, and go hand in hand. Democratic rule has recklessly struck down both and both must be re-established.