The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 82Century Company, 1911 - Literature |
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Page 37
... become so ingrained in the Chinese that it is no longer a moral fact but only an economic fact . Your cook takes his wages as a recompense for his technical services only ; for his services as a business man in buying for your household ...
... become so ingrained in the Chinese that it is no longer a moral fact but only an economic fact . Your cook takes his wages as a recompense for his technical services only ; for his services as a business man in buying for your household ...
Page 39
... become figureheads and little men run the enterprise . Any government undertaking suffers from the conceit and unpracticality of the manda- rins . The initial price of the cement from a government plant was fixed at a dollar a barrel ...
... become figureheads and little men run the enterprise . Any government undertaking suffers from the conceit and unpracticality of the manda- rins . The initial price of the cement from a government plant was fixed at a dollar a barrel ...
Page 54
... become confused . ' I do not States . His ideal was that of the " laugh- ing devil , " and in the exposition of it he indicated a novel theory . Richard is nine- teen years old when he kills King Henry , in the Tower , and thirty ...
... become confused . ' I do not States . His ideal was that of the " laugh- ing devil , " and in the exposition of it he indicated a novel theory . Richard is nine- teen years old when he kills King Henry , in the Tower , and thirty ...
Page 88
... become the synonym of riot and revolution , and to accuse Lu- ther of sympathy with it was to hold him . up to general execration . He felt the gravity of the accusation , and at first re- pelled it angrily . " Never , " he retorted ...
... become the synonym of riot and revolution , and to accuse Lu- ther of sympathy with it was to hold him . up to general execration . He felt the gravity of the accusation , and at first re- pelled it angrily . " Never , " he retorted ...
Page 104
... become more clear to him . And I — I never interrupt . " I went away flattering myself that I held the key to the enigma . She gave him the lemon cakes he loved and she let him talk shop , and -- best of all , she never in- terrupted ...
... become more clear to him . And I — I never interrupt . " I went away flattering myself that I held the key to the enigma . She gave him the lemon cakes he loved and she let him talk shop , and -- best of all , she never in- terrupted ...
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Page 512 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 147 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 746 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 516 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Page 42 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 433 - There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.
Page 132 - battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better, for such a purpose, to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell...
Page 307 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes!
Page 512 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Page 454 - They declared against superstition on the one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church, and the Liturgy, and could well live under them: But they did not think it unlawful to live under another form. They wished that things might have been carried with more moderation. And they continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity: From whence they were called men...