Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 102Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1921 - American literature |
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... persons ; but still they are Hellenes , and have customs upon which you can calculate . Their speech may be unintelligible to you , but at least it is a proper language . Outside are the barbaroi , making noises like birds and capable ...
... persons ; but still they are Hellenes , and have customs upon which you can calculate . Their speech may be unintelligible to you , but at least it is a proper language . Outside are the barbaroi , making noises like birds and capable ...
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... persons , speaking about typhus or the arms traffic , or the traffic in women and children or the prevention of various wars , really had their minds devoted to the thing they were talking about . They were really thinking ...
... persons , speaking about typhus or the arms traffic , or the traffic in women and children or the prevention of various wars , really had their minds devoted to the thing they were talking about . They were really thinking ...
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... person , but as he looked at her he remembered a line of a poem which seemed descrip- tive of Joy , A heart at leisure from itself , to soothe and sympathise . Joy had that leisure . Nicolas knew that it was the rarest thing in the ...
... person , but as he looked at her he remembered a line of a poem which seemed descrip- tive of Joy , A heart at leisure from itself , to soothe and sympathise . Joy had that leisure . Nicolas knew that it was the rarest thing in the ...
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... person . With regard to talk it is clear that , in the average experience , most places and most times may seem to be wrong . When we feel savage , most persons quite naturally come into the same classification . All of which tends to ...
... person . With regard to talk it is clear that , in the average experience , most places and most times may seem to be wrong . When we feel savage , most persons quite naturally come into the same classification . All of which tends to ...
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... thinker ! " Sophie's eyes flamed . " Maybe in Smyrna , from where you come , a cook is a nothing . In Amer- ica everybody is a person . " " Bolshevik ! " he yelled . " Look only " It's not so sunny and airy here as in 67.
... thinker ! " Sophie's eyes flamed . " Maybe in Smyrna , from where you come , a cook is a nothing . In Amer- ica everybody is a person . " " Bolshevik ! " he yelled . " Look only " It's not so sunny and airy here as in 67.
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Page 313 - Certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone.
Page 135 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 829 - And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Page 60 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 491 - ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
Page 256 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 827 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round...
Page 124 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Page 302 - I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to watering-places and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room and fewer incumbrances.
Page 256 - Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...