Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... Progress : Advance of Medicine in the Last Sixty Years ( Concluded ) Editorial and Journal Review : The Nation and the Crisis The Dreyfus Case - Zola's Conviction The Trial for the Shooting of the Hazleton Miners SELF CULTURE'S Book ...
... Progress : Advance of Medicine in the Last Sixty Years ( Concluded ) Editorial and Journal Review : The Nation and the Crisis The Dreyfus Case - Zola's Conviction The Trial for the Shooting of the Hazleton Miners SELF CULTURE'S Book ...
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... progress and betterment . Even in practical politics the movement for re- form has made itself felt in several forms , as will presently be shown . Possibly the net practical results of all this agitation and activity are not imposing ...
... progress and betterment . Even in practical politics the movement for re- form has made itself felt in several forms , as will presently be shown . Possibly the net practical results of all this agitation and activity are not imposing ...
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... progress in municipal reform can be made until it is known what the sphere of municipal gov- ernment is , and until an ample degree of local autonomy is secured . " We have next to ask to what extent , if any , the vices of municipal ...
... progress in municipal reform can be made until it is known what the sphere of municipal gov- ernment is , and until an ample degree of local autonomy is secured . " We have next to ask to what extent , if any , the vices of municipal ...
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... progress from an undeveloped , semi - barbarous condition , to that of self - consciousness and self - expression . There can be no such thing as universal literature in any department , we cannot separate a work from the inevitable ...
... progress from an undeveloped , semi - barbarous condition , to that of self - consciousness and self - expression . There can be no such thing as universal literature in any department , we cannot separate a work from the inevitable ...
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... progress of American litera- ture . The nation had advanced and the thought and expression of the people advanced with it . Hawthorne wrote at a time when the productions of prose and verse were reeking with sickly senti- mentalism . A ...
... progress of American litera- ture . The nation had advanced and the thought and expression of the people advanced with it . Hawthorne wrote at a time when the productions of prose and verse were reeking with sickly senti- mentalism . A ...
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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.