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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... interest , which claims the special atten- tion of students of American public life . It embodies on a vaster scale a tragedy which can constantly be ob- served in the United States and in all lands of mixed population and heredi- ties ...
... interest , which claims the special atten- tion of students of American public life . It embodies on a vaster scale a tragedy which can constantly be ob- served in the United States and in all lands of mixed population and heredi- ties ...
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... interest in the business . Without family and with few friends , she had been lonely . " But Tull is such a hearty place , " she said . " It's beautiful . One might forget to be lonely . " " Be sure of that , " commented Petti- grove ...
... interest in the business . Without family and with few friends , she had been lonely . " But Tull is such a hearty place , " she said . " It's beautiful . One might forget to be lonely . " " Be sure of that , " commented Petti- grove ...
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... interest to speculation upon the situation of the caught - up - with . 82 It might be a bit reckless to clas- sify Charlotte Perkins Gilman among thinkers who have been overtaken . She is still , in many of her doctrines and convictions ...
... interest to speculation upon the situation of the caught - up - with . 82 It might be a bit reckless to clas- sify Charlotte Perkins Gilman among thinkers who have been overtaken . She is still , in many of her doctrines and convictions ...
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... interest . It recalls her picture of woman as the survival of the original sex and of man as the enter- prising afterthought , which first elic- ited for her the special notice of European thinkers . Here again she takes up sex conflict ...
... interest . It recalls her picture of woman as the survival of the original sex and of man as the enter- prising afterthought , which first elic- ited for her the special notice of European thinkers . Here again she takes up sex conflict ...
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... interest in our own Egypt . " The last remaining territory of high civilization which awaits the archæologists ' efforts " is what Dr. Spinden calls it . And certainly the mystery of the Maya cities can never be dissolved without a good ...
... interest in our own Egypt . " The last remaining territory of high civilization which awaits the archæologists ' efforts " is what Dr. Spinden calls it . And certainly the mystery of the Maya cities can never be dissolved without a good ...
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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.
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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.