The Making of America, Volume 1Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Hardy, Charles Higgins Making of America, 1906 - Inventors |
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... fact . We are advancing into the second century of our national life . The past is crowded with great achievement . In the succession of events a continent of wilderness has been transformed , and in its place are cultivated fields and ...
... fact . We are advancing into the second century of our national life . The past is crowded with great achievement . In the succession of events a continent of wilderness has been transformed , and in its place are cultivated fields and ...
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... fact . We are advancing into the second century of our national life . The past is crowded with great achievement . In the succession of events a continent of wilderness has been transformed , and in its place are cultivated fields and ...
... fact . We are advancing into the second century of our national life . The past is crowded with great achievement . In the succession of events a continent of wilderness has been transformed , and in its place are cultivated fields and ...
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... fact : Against the natural laws of trade and commerce is set the arbitrary will of a few masters of special privelege . The principal transportation lines of the country are so operated as to eliminate competition . Between railroads ...
... fact : Against the natural laws of trade and commerce is set the arbitrary will of a few masters of special privelege . The principal transportation lines of the country are so operated as to eliminate competition . Between railroads ...
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... fact that in Mr. Lodge's tables Massachusetts produced 2,686 notables , while Virginia , of the same blood , produced only 1,038 , must lead to the suspicion that factors other than race extraction are the mainspring of greatness . It ...
... fact that in Mr. Lodge's tables Massachusetts produced 2,686 notables , while Virginia , of the same blood , produced only 1,038 , must lead to the suspicion that factors other than race extraction are the mainspring of greatness . It ...
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... fact that in Mr. Lodge's tables Massachusetts produced 2,686 notables , while Virginia , of the same blood , produced only 1,038 , must lead to the suspicion that factors other than race extraction are the mainspring of greatness . It ...
... fact that in Mr. Lodge's tables Massachusetts produced 2,686 notables , while Virginia , of the same blood , produced only 1,038 , must lead to the suspicion that factors other than race extraction are the mainspring of greatness . It ...
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Page 194 - Europe from the east to the west, from the north to the south...
Page 305 - Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Page 72 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of policy, by which property and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 73 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 374 - That excellent and by all Physitians approved China Drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay, alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head, a cophee-house in Sweetings Rents, by the Royal Exchange, London.
Page 20 - State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, and from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws ; but it adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another.
Page 299 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Page 82 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 298 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...