The Editorial, 2. köideAtoz Print. Company, 1916 |
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Page 395 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 400 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 98 - And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
Page 694 - Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms or the recruitment of men.
Page 300 - It is easy to die. Men have died For a wish or a whim — From bravado or passion or pride. Was it harder for him ? But to live — every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt, While his friends met his conduct with doubt And the world with contempt: Was it thus that he plodded ahead, Never turning aside ? Then we'll talk of the life that he led. Never mind how he died.
Page 157 - Gentledame inquire, what dresse the Queen is in this week; what the nudiustertian fashion of the Court; I mean the very newest: with egge to be in it in all haste, what-ever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if she were of a kickable substance, than either honoured or humoured.
Page xx - Forget not that no fellow-being yet May fall so low but love may lift his head : Even the cheek of shame with tears is wet, If something good be said. No generous heart may vainly turn aside In ways of sympathy ; no soul so dead But may awaken strong and glorified, If something good be said.
Page 135 - We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no Constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 682 - Sts., § 3738, which provides that "eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States.
Page 18 - The act of Congress we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic — what shall I call them — populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.