The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 140Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927 - American essays |
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The crowd gave him a big hand . He climbed through between the ropes and put his two fists together and smiled and shook them at the crowd , first at one Iside of the ring , then at the other , and then sat down . Jack got a good hand ...
The crowd gave him a big hand . He climbed through between the ropes and put his two fists together and smiled and shook them at the crowd , first at one Iside of the ring , then at the other , and then sat down . Jack got a good hand ...
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Solly Freedman comes over to our corner while Jack is bandaging his hands and John is over in Walcott's corner . Jack put his thumb through the slit in the bandage and then wrapped his hand nice and smooth . I taped it around the wrist ...
Solly Freedman comes over to our corner while Jack is bandaging his hands and John is over in Walcott's corner . Jack put his thumb through the slit in the bandage and then wrapped his hand nice and smooth . I taped it around the wrist ...
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While they were in our corner I watched him tie Walcott up , get his right hand loose , turn it , and come up with an uppercut that got Walcott's nose with the heel of the glove . Wal- cott was bleeding bad and leaned his nose on Jack's ...
While they were in our corner I watched him tie Walcott up , get his right hand loose , turn it , and come up with an uppercut that got Walcott's nose with the heel of the glove . Wal- cott was bleeding bad and leaned his nose on Jack's ...
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Jack stuck the left hand at him . Walcott just shook his head . He backed Jack up against the ... He started to sock with his hands low down by his side , swinging at Walcott . Walcott covered up and Jack was swinging wild at Walcott's ...
Jack stuck the left hand at him . Walcott just shook his head . He backed Jack up against the ... He started to sock with his hands low down by his side , swinging at Walcott . Walcott covered up and Jack was swinging wild at Walcott's ...
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Science is only a way to dig out rough material , stuff which can be articulated only by philosophers . The correlation in each student's life of the scientific method and the facts it discovers for us , on the one hand , and the age ...
Science is only a way to dig out rough material , stuff which can be articulated only by philosophers . The correlation in each student's life of the scientific method and the facts it discovers for us , on the one hand , and the age ...
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Page 277 - make of it!' He became conscious of the words his brother was reading. 'Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and hi the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these
Page 548 - glowing; rapturous and frightened by turns. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. It must have been the eye of his heart which he had been
Page 369 - in office, to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference to what appeared to be your wishes. ... I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the pursuit of duty or propriety.
Page 377 - in retiring from the presidential office after their second term, has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions. There
Page 343 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
Page 201 - Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 277 - the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 317 - The impression we receive is of a feverish struggle for literary existence, a terrible pressure of the poetical population on the means of subsistence. 'Pope writes: — When sick of muse our follies we deplore And promise our best friends to write no more, We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit.
Page 720 - God hath given power to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins, and that
Page 370 - General Washington set the example of retirement at the end of eight years. I shall follow it; and a few more precedents will oppose the obstacle of habit to any one after a while who shall endeavor to extend his term.