The Co-operative Traveler AbroadA. Standing, 1888 - 257 pages |
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Page 208 - From op'ning skies may streaming glories shine, And saints embrace thee with a love like mine. May one kind grave unite each hapless name, And graft my love immortal on thy fame...
Page 208 - And saints embrace thee with a love like mine. May one kind grave unite each hapless name, And graft my love immortal on thy fame! Then, ages hence, when all my woes are o'er...
Page 58 - O WELL for him whose will is strong ! He suffers, but he will not suffer long ; He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong : For him nor moves the loud world's random mock, Nor all Calamity's hugest waves confound, Who seems a promontory of rock, That, compass'd round with turbulent sound, In middle ocean meets the surging shock, Tempest-buffeted, citadel-crown'd.
Page 191 - ... You've over-fed him, ma'am. You've raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma'am, unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs Sowerberry, who are practical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.
Page 53 - Take by all means biographies : wheresoever possible, autobiographies; and study them. Fill your minds with live human figures ; men of like passions with yourselves ; see how each lived and worked in the time and place in which God put him. Believe me, that when you have thus made a friend of the dead, and brought him to life again, and let him teach you to see with his eyes, and feel with his heart, you will begin to understand more of his generation and his circumstances, than all the mere history-books...
Page 236 - Leclaire gave notice that the division of profits for the year 1841 would take place in accordance with his previous announcement. A section of his workmen had from the first distrusted his offers, and they were supported in that attitude by a newspaper, L 'Atelier, which accused him of manoeuvring in this fashion in order to reduce wages.
Page 53 - I entreat gentlemen who may hereafter attend my lectures to bear in mind this last saying. If they wish to understand History, they must first try to understand men and women. For History is the history of men and women, and of nothing else; and he who knows men and women thoroughly will best understand the past work of the world, and be best able to carry on its work now. The men who, in the long run, have governed the world, have been those who understood the human heart...
Page 35 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? " " Yes," replied the witness, with a twinkle in his eye, " very awkward indeed — for the coo!
Page 176 - C. vastifiea, or only about twenty-five, or less, as in C. celata. How are we to account for such a fact as this, if it be maintained that these orifices were drilled by worms ? Are we to consider that this complete correspondence between these parts of the sponge and the orifices is a mere chance coincidence (wonderful indeed if true !) or that the worm made the openings purposely, in strict accordance with the...
Page 50 - ... iron work, houses them in palatial buildings, nurses their babies as far as their mothers desire it, educates their children, provides library, news room, billiard room, refreshment saloon, theatre, music master, doctors and dispensary, assists them to wash and dry their clothes by machinery, assures them against the needs of old age, the accidents and ailments of life, and the loss by death of the wage-earner, and furnishes them with all the luxuries of life, including a cooperative garden filled...