The Forum, Volume 42Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach Forum Publishing Company, 1909 Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements. |
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... House . The Democrats held the Senate by a slender thread . Their majority did not number more than two or three ; and it was necessary , if the pledge upon which Mr. Cleveland had been elected was to be redeemed , to secure unanimity ...
... House . The Democrats held the Senate by a slender thread . Their majority did not number more than two or three ; and it was necessary , if the pledge upon which Mr. Cleveland had been elected was to be redeemed , to secure unanimity ...
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... House adopted . They are charging that these schedules are revising the tariff upward instead of downward ; that the rates which the Senate is asked to vote upon are framed for the sole purpose of adding to the already inordinate ...
... House adopted . They are charging that these schedules are revising the tariff upward instead of downward ; that the rates which the Senate is asked to vote upon are framed for the sole purpose of adding to the already inordinate ...
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... House , having received the measure from the Ways and Means Committee , bolted it in ostrich fashion at a certain day on a certain hour . In the Senate , however , different methods obtain . In that body there is no previous question to ...
... House , having received the measure from the Ways and Means Committee , bolted it in ostrich fashion at a certain day on a certain hour . In the Senate , however , different methods obtain . In that body there is no previous question to ...
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... House , having received the measure from the Ways and Means Committee , bolted it in ostrich fashion . at a certain day on a certain hour . In the Senate , however , different methods obtain . In that body there is no previous question ...
... House , having received the measure from the Ways and Means Committee , bolted it in ostrich fashion . at a certain day on a certain hour . In the Senate , however , different methods obtain . In that body there is no previous question ...
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... houses , is brought about at last by what is only an accident . If only Friar Laurence had thought of the device of the potion two minutes earlier , before Romeo parted from Juliet in the cell , or if only the letter Friar Laurence sent ...
... houses , is brought about at last by what is only an accident . If only Friar Laurence had thought of the device of the potion two minutes earlier , before Romeo parted from Juliet in the cell , or if only the letter Friar Laurence sent ...
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Page 231 - The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve.
Page 246 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Page 448 - America is God's crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty hatreds and rivalries.
Page 236 - Wordsworth's poetry is great because of the extraordinary power with which Wordsworth feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple primary affections and duties ; and because of the extraordinary power with which, in case after case, he shows us this joy, and renders it so . as to make us share it.
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Page 542 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 537 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 236 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 557 - Boston. It is desired that the Sons and Daughters of Liberty would not buy any one thing of him, for in so doing they will bring disgrace upon themselves, and their posterity, forever and ever, amen.