Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 107Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1924 - American literature |
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... cent . of the discovered Maya characters . We can read their numerals and a few other glyphs , such as the signs for the sun , moon , and the seasons . That is to say , all the characters which we can read deal with the passage of time ...
... cent . of the discovered Maya characters . We can read their numerals and a few other glyphs , such as the signs for the sun , moon , and the seasons . That is to say , all the characters which we can read deal with the passage of time ...
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... cents . " Such a nice boy ! " said Mrs. Chiddix . Chiddix . But Mrs. Chiddix could not understand French . Janie could ; perfectly . It was to her a continual exhilarating astonish- ment how readily she grasped phrases she had never ...
... cents . " Such a nice boy ! " said Mrs. Chiddix . Chiddix . But Mrs. Chiddix could not understand French . Janie could ; perfectly . It was to her a continual exhilarating astonish- ment how readily she grasped phrases she had never ...
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... cent . as Slovene , or " Windisch , " as they are called there ; and in upper Silesia , where the major- ity went for Germany by sixty per cent . in the face of German figures giving fifty - five per cent . as speaking Polish , or ...
... cent . as Slovene , or " Windisch , " as they are called there ; and in upper Silesia , where the major- ity went for Germany by sixty per cent . in the face of German figures giving fifty - five per cent . as speaking Polish , or ...
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... cent . of Slovenes were virtually all peasants , and though the priests , appointed always by the Slo- vene bishop at Laibach ( now Lubli- jana ) , had made every effort to keep alive their national feeling , the peas- ants had their ...
... cent . of Slovenes were virtually all peasants , and though the priests , appointed always by the Slo- vene bishop at Laibach ( now Lubli- jana ) , had made every effort to keep alive their national feeling , the peas- ants had their ...
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... cent plebiscites can easily be avoided . Others will be harder to guard against so long as national jealousies are high , as they are sure to be after a war . The first lesson of the recent plebiscites is not to hold a vote where the ...
... cent plebiscites can easily be avoided . Others will be harder to guard against so long as national jealousies are high , as they are sure to be after a war . The first lesson of the recent plebiscites is not to hold a vote where the ...
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Page 378 - I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Page 529 - I am here, therefore, to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me, for what in law is a deliberate crime and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen.
Page 530 - The law is no respecter of persons. Nevertheless, it will be impossible to ignore the fact that you are in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try. It would be impossible to ignore the fact that, in the eyes of millions of your countrymen, you are a great patriot and a great leader. Even those who differ from you in politics look upon you as a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life.
Page 604 - ... the high wood, and a long hanging wood called The Hanger. The covert of this eminence is altogether beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs.
Page 564 - This is a dead scene forever now. Nothing will ever stir. The end will never brighten it more than this, Nor the rain blur. The water will always fall, and will not fall, And the tipped bell make no sound. The grass will always be growing for hay Deep on the ground. And I shall stand here like a shadow Under the great balanced day, My eyes on the yellow dust that was lifting in the wind, And does not drift away.
Page 762 - ... not able to endure. But strange to see, when women and men here, that live all the season in these waters, cannot but be parboiled, and look like the creatures of the bath ! Carried away, wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair, home ; and there one after another thus carried, I staying above two hours in the water, home to bed, sweating for an hour ; and by and by, comes musick to play to me, extraordinary good as ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere : 5«.
Page 380 - To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
Page 103 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?
Page 530 - There are probably few people in India, who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty.
Page 539 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.