Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... English , together with the excep- tional opportunities he has enjoyed for securing data , places his work on the subject , now of paramount interest , head and shoulders above any others . Orders are filled in their regular turn ...
... English , together with the excep- tional opportunities he has enjoyed for securing data , places his work on the subject , now of paramount interest , head and shoulders above any others . Orders are filled in their regular turn ...
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... English and continental munic- ipalities are helpful even to those who do not sympathize with the author's decided collectivist leaning , the great modern municipal problem may be stated as follows : " How can the environment be most ...
... English and continental munic- ipalities are helpful even to those who do not sympathize with the author's decided collectivist leaning , the great modern municipal problem may be stated as follows : " How can the environment be most ...
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... English and Continental European way of treating cities . The sphere of local self - government must be defined and respected , and cities must have the right and opportunity conferred upon them of working out their own salvation and ...
... English and Continental European way of treating cities . The sphere of local self - government must be defined and respected , and cities must have the right and opportunity conferred upon them of working out their own salvation and ...
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... English cities . This plan is likely to grow in public favor , and may be profitably studied . It contemplates the construc- tion by the municipality of tracks and plants and the reservation of ownership , the operation to be entrusted ...
... English cities . This plan is likely to grow in public favor , and may be profitably studied . It contemplates the construc- tion by the municipality of tracks and plants and the reservation of ownership , the operation to be entrusted ...
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... English language ; in it the English poet is compared with Homer and Virgil : - " Three poets in three distant ages born , Greece , Italy and England did adorn . The first in loftiness of thought surpassed , The next in majesty ; in ...
... English language ; in it the English poet is compared with Homer and Virgil : - " Three poets in three distant ages born , Greece , Italy and England did adorn . The first in loftiness of thought surpassed , The next in majesty ; in ...
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Page 7 - SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl.
Page 73 - Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind.
Page 45 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke. I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain, And pronounced on, the rest of his handwork, — returned him again His creation's approval or censure; I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work: all's love, yet all's law.
Page 9 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Page 10 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Page 24 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 78 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 11 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 22 - As this old gentleman, who had been in all the German wars, found very few to listen to his tales of military feats, he formed a sort of alliance with me, and I used invariably to attend him for the pleasure of hearing those communications.