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... hours , for apart from the lack of the proper ventilating facilities , during the piercing weather of a New England winter , it was a difficult matter to secure anything like a pleasant temperature in such a place . The school - master ...
... hours , for apart from the lack of the proper ventilating facilities , during the piercing weather of a New England winter , it was a difficult matter to secure anything like a pleasant temperature in such a place . The school - master ...
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... hour for recrea- tion , such as boys usually delight in , except reading , which few boys think a pleasure . One bright spot , however , in the routine of his apprenticeship , was the opportunity he had for study . At West Haven , he ...
... hour for recrea- tion , such as boys usually delight in , except reading , which few boys think a pleasure . One bright spot , however , in the routine of his apprenticeship , was the opportunity he had for study . At West Haven , he ...
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... hours for meals and relaxation , while he was so saving of his money , that his coarse and rural attire remained unchanged , nor did a suggestion from his em- ployer work any important improvement in the matter . When he failed on the ...
... hours for meals and relaxation , while he was so saving of his money , that his coarse and rural attire remained unchanged , nor did a suggestion from his em- ployer work any important improvement in the matter . When he failed on the ...
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... hours a day , he was only able to earn five or six dollars a week , and the other com- positors could not be induced to work on it more than a day or two , so that he had it nearly all to himself , and persevered until he had finished ...
... hours a day , he was only able to earn five or six dollars a week , and the other com- positors could not be induced to work on it more than a day or two , so that he had it nearly all to himself , and persevered until he had finished ...
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... hour my load was palpably lightened . " On Saturday morning , July 31st , the notice of the co - partnership appeared editorially in the Tribune and the partnership thus consumated , lasted over ten years . Mr. McElrath was an ex ...
... hour my load was palpably lightened . " On Saturday morning , July 31st , the notice of the co - partnership appeared editorially in the Tribune and the partnership thus consumated , lasted over ten years . Mr. McElrath was an ex ...
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Page 418 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 258 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 258 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them.
Page 407 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Page 164 - To whom it may concern : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States...
Page 414 - States ; that the committee deem it highly dangerous and inexpedient to impair a provision wisely calculated to promote the happiness and prosperity of the northwestern country, and to give strength and security to that extensive frontier. In the salutary operation of this sagacious and benevolent restraint, it is believed that the inhabitants of Indiana will, at no very distant day, find ample remuneration for a temporary privation of labor and of emigration...
Page 494 - If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Page 575 - The civil service of the Government has become a mere instrument of partisan tyranny and personal ambition, and an object of selfish greed. It is a scandal and reproach upon free institutions, and breeds a demoralization dangerous to the perpetuity of republican government. We therefore regard a thorough reform of the civil service as one of the most pressing necessities of the hour...
Page 494 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need...
Page 465 - an endless significance lies in Work;" a man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seedfields rise instead, and stately cities ; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle and foul unwholesome desert thereby. Consider, how, even in the meanest sorts of...