The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 139Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927 - American essays |
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... head of business , while collections of beds , tables , stools , and candlesticks are classified as art ? Or is it merely that it is easy for a copy reader to cross out a name and substitute a harmless generality , but difficult for an ...
... head of business , while collections of beds , tables , stools , and candlesticks are classified as art ? Or is it merely that it is easy for a copy reader to cross out a name and substitute a harmless generality , but difficult for an ...
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... head through too small a porthole- ' to watch a shark , ' I told the stokers later - and finding myself thoroughly trapped . The ' sociable ' ones of the crew did their best , hauling at my legs , before the Chief came to my rescue with ...
... head through too small a porthole- ' to watch a shark , ' I told the stokers later - and finding myself thoroughly trapped . The ' sociable ' ones of the crew did their best , hauling at my legs , before the Chief came to my rescue with ...
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... heads two birds , stealing kisses on the wing ; and on an isle in the river a bower ; and on the mainland a Chinese ... head above the trapdoor . And I dared not crawl up to her , for she had not heard me climb the steps . But suddenly ...
... heads two birds , stealing kisses on the wing ; and on an isle in the river a bower ; and on the mainland a Chinese ... head above the trapdoor . And I dared not crawl up to her , for she had not heard me climb the steps . But suddenly ...
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... head at her with a loving smile . ' Joanie ! Joanie ! Will you never grow up ? ' But he had to stop reading until he had finished laughing every time . II So the five happy days flew by and the sad Thursday came when my room was needed ...
... head at her with a loving smile . ' Joanie ! Joanie ! Will you never grow up ? ' But he had to stop reading until he had finished laughing every time . II So the five happy days flew by and the sad Thursday came when my room was needed ...
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... head of the table and was the most genial and delight- ful host imaginable . He had not dined with us during my five days in the previous week , so I had not till then seen him act in that capacity . I remember that on the first night ...
... head of the table and was the most genial and delight- ful host imaginable . He had not dined with us during my five days in the previous week , so I had not till then seen him act in that capacity . I remember that on the first night ...
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Page 493 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 475 - It is the right of the lawyer to undertake the defense of a person accused of crime, regardless of his personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused ; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense. Having undertaken such defense, the lawyer is bound by all fair and honorable means, to present every defense that the law of the land permits, to the end that no person may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law...
Page 708 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 533 - The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect.
Page 766 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a Sigh I wish it mine ; When He can in one Couplet fix More Sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous Fit, I cry "Pox take him and his Wit!
Page 297 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 493 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour.
Page 493 - I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare, that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship.
Page 716 - The right to organize voluntary religious associations to assist in the expression and dissemination of any religious doctrine, and to create tribunals for the decision of controverted questions of faith within the association, and for the ecclesiastical government of all the individual members, congregations, and officers within the general association, is unquestioned. All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this government, and are bound to submit to it.
Page 531 - The Almighty, therefore, has appointed the charge of the human race between two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, things. Each in its kind is supreme, each has fixed limits within which it is contained, limits which are defined by the nature and special object of the province of each...