Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 114Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1927 - American literature |
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... thousand to three hundred thousand men ; wages have been advancing as the cost of living advanced , and costs of materials have been increasing . Until the World War , competition from foreign countries was growing and becoming more ...
... thousand to three hundred thousand men ; wages have been advancing as the cost of living advanced , and costs of materials have been increasing . Until the World War , competition from foreign countries was growing and becoming more ...
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... thousand more young men , young men to be drawn from the homes of farmers and workers , if not from those of greater folk who furnished substitutes at three or four hundred dollars each . And this disgust with the president gave easy ...
... thousand more young men , young men to be drawn from the homes of farmers and workers , if not from those of greater folk who furnished substitutes at three or four hundred dollars each . And this disgust with the president gave easy ...
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... thousand veterans about him , there on the hills of northern Georgia , waiting for the onset of Sherman and his hardened farmers . The gentle Lincoln , dreading the inevitable slaughter , permitted the elder Blair to slip off to ...
... thousand veterans about him , there on the hills of northern Georgia , waiting for the onset of Sherman and his hardened farmers . The gentle Lincoln , dreading the inevitable slaughter , permitted the elder Blair to slip off to ...
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... thousand hesitating volunteers and conscripts slowly gathering under the unwelcome call of February 1 , gath- ering at a score of training - camps in New York , Pennsylvania , Ohio , In- diana , and the rest of the doubtful States ...
... thousand hesitating volunteers and conscripts slowly gathering under the unwelcome call of February 1 , gath- ering at a score of training - camps in New York , Pennsylvania , Ohio , In- diana , and the rest of the doubtful States ...
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... thousands of beds . Lin- coln had entered upon the war for the Union ; he could not retreat , his democracy " here and ... thousand in front of John- ston , and Grant himself was ready to cross the Rapidan - a vast complex of moves and ...
... thousands of beds . Lin- coln had entered upon the war for the Union ; he could not retreat , his democracy " here and ... thousand in front of John- ston , and Grant himself was ready to cross the Rapidan - a vast complex of moves and ...
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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.