The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 139Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927 - American essays |
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... knew the seriousness with which Ameri- cans take what it pleases them to call their relaxation . Of course a military camp where soldiers are being trained for the front simulates as well as it can the actual conditions of the ...
... knew the seriousness with which Ameri- cans take what it pleases them to call their relaxation . Of course a military camp where soldiers are being trained for the front simulates as well as it can the actual conditions of the ...
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... knew . My years at child labor in Denmark were secluded , though not at all tedious . I was always capable of entertaining myself : by watching my fingers make and break things ; by letting my senses they were animal in purity - -snatch ...
... knew . My years at child labor in Denmark were secluded , though not at all tedious . I was always capable of entertaining myself : by watching my fingers make and break things ; by letting my senses they were animal in purity - -snatch ...
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... knew that I was there . She turned her face toward me and stared as though I had risen from the dead . I explained my errand . ' God ! ' she gasped . ' I thought it was Father . ' I did not know then that her father was dead , or that ...
... knew that I was there . She turned her face toward me and stared as though I had risen from the dead . I explained my errand . ' God ! ' she gasped . ' I thought it was Father . ' I did not know then that her father was dead , or that ...
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... knew that again bitter taunts were being exchanged , this time in company where words quickly kindled action . Hitherto her own presence had always restrained them . · Now the only spectators were hood- lums off the street , before whom ...
... knew that again bitter taunts were being exchanged , this time in company where words quickly kindled action . Hitherto her own presence had always restrained them . · Now the only spectators were hood- lums off the street , before whom ...
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... knew O'Bannion . ' It was a Chicago jury which found Martin Durkin , bootlegger , automobile thief , seducer , killer , guilty of mur- der without any extenuating circum- stance , and then recommended a term of years in the penitentiary ...
... knew O'Bannion . ' It was a Chicago jury which found Martin Durkin , bootlegger , automobile thief , seducer , killer , guilty of mur- der without any extenuating circum- stance , and then recommended a term of years in the penitentiary ...
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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...