The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 13; Volume 35Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1888 - American literature |
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... less , does not seem to matter much . While the great cities of the East have been doubling themselves and the cities of the West have grown from mere villages into vast centers of trade and population , the quiet old town has scarcely ...
... less , does not seem to matter much . While the great cities of the East have been doubling themselves and the cities of the West have grown from mere villages into vast centers of trade and population , the quiet old town has scarcely ...
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... less for the perfection of a race and more for the man himself as he is , with his faults as well as his merits , is one of the noticeable qualities of Mr. St. Gaudens's work . It is easy to see in his Farragut how he has been ...
... less for the perfection of a race and more for the man himself as he is , with his faults as well as his merits , is one of the noticeable qualities of Mr. St. Gaudens's work . It is easy to see in his Farragut how he has been ...
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... less adequately than broadly . SAINT GAUDENS'S LINCOLN . HE Lincoln monument for Chi- cago is the most important com- memorative work that Mr. St. Gaudens has yet produced and may well remain the most im- portant of his life . There ...
... less adequately than broadly . SAINT GAUDENS'S LINCOLN . HE Lincoln monument for Chi- cago is the most important com- memorative work that Mr. St. Gaudens has yet produced and may well remain the most im- portant of his life . There ...
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... less temptation to lie than the rest of us . And now he had told it all , — he made it a sort of atonement to keep back nothing , — and he sat there looking out of the window at the steady dropping of a summer rain which had pelted him ...
... less temptation to lie than the rest of us . And now he had told it all , — he made it a sort of atonement to keep back nothing , — and he sat there looking out of the window at the steady dropping of a summer rain which had pelted him ...
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... less descriptive of the whole protest- ing class , and has lost sight of the radical dif- ferences between the various groups of which that class is made up . FROM THE LIBERALS OF MOSCOW TO GENERAL LORIS MELIKOFF ,. It is my purpose in ...
... less descriptive of the whole protest- ing class , and has lost sight of the radical dif- ferences between the various groups of which that class is made up . FROM THE LIBERALS OF MOSCOW TO GENERAL LORIS MELIKOFF ,. It is my purpose in ...
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Page 280 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 284 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Page 285 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 283 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the .Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 284 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Page 281 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 282 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 284 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 284 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 281 - The Union is much older than the Constitution/ It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.