The Nation, Volumen16J.H. Richards, 1873 |
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... better , if she would get out of the way . She has under- taken the task of cooking for the American nation , not of her own motion , but simply and solely because the American nation could find nobody else to do it . She does not ...
... better , if she would get out of the way . She has under- taken the task of cooking for the American nation , not of her own motion , but simply and solely because the American nation could find nobody else to do it . She does not ...
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... better provided for than those of any other country in Europe , that they are physically more powerful , as Mr. Brassey has re- cently shown by numerous examples , and that they are rather better fed and fully as well housed as the ...
... better provided for than those of any other country in Europe , that they are physically more powerful , as Mr. Brassey has re- cently shown by numerous examples , and that they are rather better fed and fully as well housed as the ...
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... better put his thousand dollars into that ; upon which Mr. Dawes purchased ten shares . Shortly afterward he went home to Pittsfield , and there was told by a friend that the Crédit Mobilier Company had trouble in store for it , and ...
... better put his thousand dollars into that ; upon which Mr. Dawes purchased ten shares . Shortly afterward he went home to Pittsfield , and there was told by a friend that the Crédit Mobilier Company had trouble in store for it , and ...
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... better heaven , I think , would be to sit all night in a fauteuil ( if they were only a little better stuffed ) listening to Delaunay , watching Got , or falling in love with Mlle . Desclée . An acted play is a novel intensified ; it ...
... better heaven , I think , would be to sit all night in a fauteuil ( if they were only a little better stuffed ) listening to Delaunay , watching Got , or falling in love with Mlle . Desclée . An acted play is a novel intensified ; it ...
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... better , you must - after terrific vituperation , indeed , and imminent suicide on the lady's part - press her re- lentingly to your bosom . M. Pailleron enforces this moral in capitally turned verse , and with Delaunay's magical aid ...
... better , you must - after terrific vituperation , indeed , and imminent suicide on the lady's part - press her re- lentingly to your bosom . M. Pailleron enforces this moral in capitally turned verse , and with Delaunay's magical aid ...
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Página 278 - States in the legislative bodies which claimed to be in their normal relations with the federal government, were laws which imposed upon the colored race onerous disabilities and burdens, and curtailed their rights in the pursuit of life, liberty, and property to such an extent that their freedom was of little value...
Página 278 - Not only may a man be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of a state, but an important element is necessary to convert the former into the latter. He must reside within the state to make him a citizen of it, but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.
Página 76 - Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heartbeats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
Página 37 - British flag, in the enhanced payments of insurance, in the prolongation of the war, and in the addition of a large sum to the cost of the war and the suppression of the rebellion...
Página 124 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Página 252 - But my delight in going over Homer and Virgil with the boys makes me think what a treat it must be to teach Shakespeare to a good class of young Greeks in regenerate Athens ; to dwell upon him line by line, and word by word, in the way that nothing but a translation lesson ever will enable one to do; and so to get all his pictures and thoughts leisurely into one's mind, till I verily think one would after a time almost give out light in the dark, after having been steeped as it were in such an atmosphere...
Página 76 - But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
Página 278 - If, then, there is a difference between the privileges and immunities belonging to a citizen of the United States as such, and those belonging to the citizen of the State as such, the latter must rest for their security and protection where they have heretofore rested, for they are not embraced by this paragraph of the amendment. The first occurrence of the words privileges and immunities...
Página 150 - I have:' looking very hard at me the while, for he had told me with some pride coming down that it was his composition. 'Oh !' said the clergyman. 'Then you will agree with me, Mr. C, that it is not only an insult to me, who am the servant of the Almighty, but an insult to the Almighty, whose servant I am.
Página 273 - Key to North American Birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the Continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Second Edition, revised to date and entirely rewritten : with which are incorporated General Ornithology...