The Bookman, Volume 22Dodd, Mead and Company, 1906 |
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... nature , many of the shorter poems in this collection are among the most remarkable expressions in liter- ature of the spirit of Schopenhauer . One of the best known of these criticises the critics of Darwin somewhat after the fol ...
... nature , many of the shorter poems in this collection are among the most remarkable expressions in liter- ature of the spirit of Schopenhauer . One of the best known of these criticises the critics of Darwin somewhat after the fol ...
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... nature , then put away in the cupboard of memory , then thrice warmed in the golden pot of phan- tasy , then served by dainty hands , and finally it must be thankfully enjoyed with a good appetite . " Can any greater trib- ute be paid ...
... nature , then put away in the cupboard of memory , then thrice warmed in the golden pot of phan- tasy , then served by dainty hands , and finally it must be thankfully enjoyed with a good appetite . " Can any greater trib- ute be paid ...
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... Nature , evolved into that entrancing and soul - satisfying maze of beauty . Not one of the twelve million human beings * who set foot within the Court of Honour , the crowning glory of the whole , could fail to be thrilled with a new ...
... Nature , evolved into that entrancing and soul - satisfying maze of beauty . Not one of the twelve million human beings * who set foot within the Court of Honour , the crowning glory of the whole , could fail to be thrilled with a new ...
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... nature to such a measure . He could not veto it , and make the professions of his party utterly ridiculous . And so he let it become a law without his signature ( August 28th ) , giving his reasons for so doing in a letter to Mr ...
... nature to such a measure . He could not veto it , and make the professions of his party utterly ridiculous . And so he let it become a law without his signature ( August 28th ) , giving his reasons for so doing in a letter to Mr ...
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... nature of an offence , and by injunction forbade the commission of it by certain specified persons . If they disobeyed the injunction , they were brought before the judge and fined or imprisoned , not directly for the act per- formed ...
... nature of an offence , and by injunction forbade the commission of it by certain specified persons . If they disobeyed the injunction , they were brought before the judge and fined or imprisoned , not directly for the act per- formed ...
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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.