The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 106Atlantic Monthly Company, 1910 - American essays |
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... important excavations were being made ; and thus enrich his- toriography with new documents ? Whereupon , I made answer that I was no book - worm , interested only in books and archæological remains ; that I was interested in life under ...
... important excavations were being made ; and thus enrich his- toriography with new documents ? Whereupon , I made answer that I was no book - worm , interested only in books and archæological remains ; that I was interested in life under ...
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... important of those points in which the ancient and the very new world resemble each other . Those who have read my Greatness and Decline of Rome know that I have tried to show how one of the essential phenomena of Roman history was the ...
... important of those points in which the ancient and the very new world resemble each other . Those who have read my Greatness and Decline of Rome know that I have tried to show how one of the essential phenomena of Roman history was the ...
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... important aspect , the condition of the United States is much nearer to that of ancient Rome than is the condition ... important than is generally supposed , and an understanding of its importance may be greatly helped for- ward by a ...
... important aspect , the condition of the United States is much nearer to that of ancient Rome than is the condition ... important than is generally supposed , and an understanding of its importance may be greatly helped for- ward by a ...
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... important in the resuscitation of asphyxiated human beings , has been and still is in process of discovery from experimentation on the lower animals . I need only call attention to the newly proposed methods of resuscitation from ...
... important in the resuscitation of asphyxiated human beings , has been and still is in process of discovery from experimentation on the lower animals . I need only call attention to the newly proposed methods of resuscitation from ...
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... important than that in the stomach itself , and it is hardly necessary to inform the reader that we should know absolutely nothing about it unless we had studied it in ani- mals . The same is true of the functions of the great digestive ...
... important than that in the stomach itself , and it is hardly necessary to inform the reader that we should know absolutely nothing about it unless we had studied it in ani- mals . The same is true of the functions of the great digestive ...
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Page 266 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 56 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 92 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 322 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 56 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 609 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 176 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 714 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 172 - Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known.
Page 92 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.