The Dial, Bind 20Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer Jansen, McClurg, 1896 |
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... less than three - fourths of the sum total of ideal human effort . -― - We suppose that many a thoughtful Amer- ican has asked himself which of the two influ- ences - the moral or the intellectual - was the more needed in his own ...
... less than three - fourths of the sum total of ideal human effort . -― - We suppose that many a thoughtful Amer- ican has asked himself which of the two influ- ences - the moral or the intellectual - was the more needed in his own ...
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... less , to swim with the current of the emotional politics of the hour , or to stand aloof with a cynical disregard of the vagaries of popular sentiment ; but neither attitude is worthy of the high - minded American , and neither is ...
... less , to swim with the current of the emotional politics of the hour , or to stand aloof with a cynical disregard of the vagaries of popular sentiment ; but neither attitude is worthy of the high - minded American , and neither is ...
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... less humane , less tragic , and less inevitable . " If war should occur between England and Amer- ica , English literature would be dishonored and disfig- ured for a century to come . Patriotic songs , histories of victory and defeat ...
... less humane , less tragic , and less inevitable . " If war should occur between England and Amer- ica , English literature would be dishonored and disfig- ured for a century to come . Patriotic songs , histories of victory and defeat ...
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... less sombre in sentiment and rendi- tion , more or less grotesque in form and ver- bal content . Common among these negroes is the practice of sitting up all night to sing , the occasion being either joyous or doleful . Mr. Edwards ...
... less sombre in sentiment and rendi- tion , more or less grotesque in form and ver- bal content . Common among these negroes is the practice of sitting up all night to sing , the occasion being either joyous or doleful . Mr. Edwards ...
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... less can we promptly agree that Alcestis evidently fainted only , from hysterical excitement , under the delusion of a doom appointed her . Heracles , to Mr. Verrall , is but a drunken braggart , who , entering the tomb , found the lady ...
... less can we promptly agree that Alcestis evidently fainted only , from hysterical excitement , under the delusion of a doom appointed her . Heracles , to Mr. Verrall , is but a drunken braggart , who , entering the tomb , found the lady ...
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Side 11 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Side 288 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Side 77 - ... the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity...
Side 82 - BRIGHT is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said— On wings they are carried— After the singer is dead And the maker buried.
Side 76 - Lang.— A MONK OF FIFE : a Romance of the Days of Jeanne D'Arc. Done into English, from the Manuscript in the Scots College of Ratisbon, by ANDREW LANG.
Side 239 - To the Constitution of the United States the term sovereign is totally unknown. There is but one place where it could have been used with propriety. But, even in that place it would not, perhaps, have comported with the delicacy of those who ordained and established that Constitution. They might have announced themselves "sovereign" people of the United States: But serenely conscious of the fact, they avoided the ostentatious declaration.
Side 366 - I confess," the author goes on to say, " that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any one of us may make to the religious appeal. God himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity.
Side 301 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
Side 361 - Its object shall be the literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books, including the occasional publication of books designed to illustrate, promote and encourage those arts...
Side 330 - The original and elementary subjective fact in society is the 'consciousness of kind.' By this term I mean a state of consciousness in which any being, whether low or high in the scale of life, recognizes another conscious being as of like kind with itself.