The World's Work, Volume 24Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912 - American literature A history of our time. |
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... Pacific financed during the same years . Two of the big trunk lines of the East are to - day almost beggars in the markets of the world , and if there is any further strain we shall probably see within a year or two some of our best and ...
... Pacific financed during the same years . Two of the big trunk lines of the East are to - day almost beggars in the markets of the world , and if there is any further strain we shall probably see within a year or two some of our best and ...
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... Pacific element in control the real fight was between George Gould and the Moore brothers in New York - in came Stubbs with his inquiring mind , his business - knowledge , his genius for organization - and mad clean through . Probably ...
... Pacific element in control the real fight was between George Gould and the Moore brothers in New York - in came Stubbs with his inquiring mind , his business - knowledge , his genius for organization - and mad clean through . Probably ...
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... Pacific element in control - the real fight was between George Gould and the Moore brothers in New York - in came Stubbs with his inquiring mind , his business - - knowledge , his genius for organization and mad clean through . Probably ...
... Pacific element in control - the real fight was between George Gould and the Moore brothers in New York - in came Stubbs with his inquiring mind , his business - - knowledge , his genius for organization and mad clean through . Probably ...
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... Pacific in Kansas set in order . Stubbs sent a telegram to Gould saying that he would put the railroad in the hands of a receiver unless the tracks were fixed . Vice - President Clark of the road ap- peared in Topeka with a retinue ...
... Pacific in Kansas set in order . Stubbs sent a telegram to Gould saying that he would put the railroad in the hands of a receiver unless the tracks were fixed . Vice - President Clark of the road ap- peared in Topeka with a retinue ...
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... Pacific . Mt. Rainier , the great vol- canic mountain between Seattle and Ta- coma , is well known from a distance . but even the name of Crater Lake , nestled in the centre of that great Mt. Mazama which caved in , is almost unheard ...
... Pacific . Mt. Rainier , the great vol- canic mountain between Seattle and Ta- coma , is well known from a distance . but even the name of Crater Lake , nestled in the centre of that great Mt. Mazama which caved in , is almost unheard ...
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Page 228 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 531 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 531 - This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: — There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — !" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and...
Page 228 - I would be presumptuous, indeed, to present myself against the distinguished gentlemen to whom you have listened if this were a mere measuring of abilities; but this is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty— the cause of humanity.
Page 531 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, . And...
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Page 227 - ... of enthusiasm; a year in which the people call for a man who has preserved in Congress what our soldiers won upon the field; a year in which we call for the man who has torn from the throat of treason the tongue of slander — for the man who has snatched the mask of Democracy from the hideous face of Rebellion...
Page 531 - Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — ! " he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battleshout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day.
Page 227 - Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Elaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor.