Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 114Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1927 - American literature |
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... sense of insecurity among them , and may help to drive them to some stroke of folly , but will not alone be sufficient to cause a crisis . It is likewise vain to hope that a grave economic crisis will lead to a political one . The ...
... sense of insecurity among them , and may help to drive them to some stroke of folly , but will not alone be sufficient to cause a crisis . It is likewise vain to hope that a grave economic crisis will lead to a political one . The ...
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... sense of duty , or , that I may not sound vain , let us call it an obses- sion of task , and I cannot rest easy until this gets satisfied . It is not pleasure that I arrive at ; it is but a relative absence of pain , mental pain - my ...
... sense of duty , or , that I may not sound vain , let us call it an obses- sion of task , and I cannot rest easy until this gets satisfied . It is not pleasure that I arrive at ; it is but a relative absence of pain , mental pain - my ...
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... sense ? I can't do no diggin ' yet . " I was such a kid I wanted to help him . " I'll dig , " I says ; " I like it , Pop . You can just pick up . " I I'll never forget the way he looked at me , rockin ' in this same rocker . never said ...
... sense ? I can't do no diggin ' yet . " I was such a kid I wanted to help him . " I'll dig , " I says ; " I like it , Pop . You can just pick up . " I I'll never forget the way he looked at me , rockin ' in this same rocker . never said ...
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... sense . However eloquently a se- quence of pictures may tell its own story , it must not be allowed , say these ... sense , as well as in the older sense of the movies , for assistance in shouldering our burden of leisure . One 70 THE ...
... sense . However eloquently a se- quence of pictures may tell its own story , it must not be allowed , say these ... sense , as well as in the older sense of the movies , for assistance in shouldering our burden of leisure . One 70 THE ...
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... sense . The routine of modern work imposes less tax on the auditory faculty than on the visual . Hence , when it is done for the day , our ears are still fresh . That is why we sometimes find attending a concert in the evening more ...
... sense . The routine of modern work imposes less tax on the auditory faculty than on the visual . Hence , when it is done for the day , our ears are still fresh . That is why we sometimes find attending a concert in the evening more ...
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Page 606 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Page 606 - No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism...
Page 193 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
Page 60 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man...
Page 541 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Page 232 - Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 537 - ... the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States of America.
Page 193 - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage ; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Page 60 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
Page 271 - Be assured, my dear Sir, that I am incapable of receiving the slightest impression from- the effort now made to plant thorns on the pillow of age, worth and wisdom, and to sow tares 'between friends who have been such for near half a century.