The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 106Atlantic Monthly Company, 1910 - American essays |
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... followed his suggestion and was rewarded with immediate success . Every detail of this progress has been checked off by experiments on animals . Some of the most difficult operations concern the intestines , the great pro- blem being to ...
... followed his suggestion and was rewarded with immediate success . Every detail of this progress has been checked off by experiments on animals . Some of the most difficult operations concern the intestines , the great pro- blem being to ...
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... followed upon its liberation , are to me wonderfully suggestive . Born in 1561 , Lord Bacon pub- lished his Novum Organum in 1620 . Galileo , three years younger , fell into the hands of the Inquisition for main- taining the heresy that ...
... followed upon its liberation , are to me wonderfully suggestive . Born in 1561 , Lord Bacon pub- lished his Novum Organum in 1620 . Galileo , three years younger , fell into the hands of the Inquisition for main- taining the heresy that ...
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... followed them and stood in the doorway , delaying them with part- ing words ; he could not have thought it was a time for admonition . ' He's all alone ; his wife's up to Port- land to her sister's , ' said Mrs. Todd aloud , in a matter ...
... followed them and stood in the doorway , delaying them with part- ing words ; he could not have thought it was a time for admonition . ' He's all alone ; his wife's up to Port- land to her sister's , ' said Mrs. Todd aloud , in a matter ...
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... followed by Joseph Medill , Victor F. Lawson , Mel- ville E. Stone , and William R. Nelson , in the West . III The new school of journalism , some- times called impersonal and taking its lead from the counting - room , which generally ...
... followed by Joseph Medill , Victor F. Lawson , Mel- ville E. Stone , and William R. Nelson , in the West . III The new school of journalism , some- times called impersonal and taking its lead from the counting - room , which generally ...
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... followed more slowly by the second , seemed to be the consensus of opinion , though reached by different lines of reasoning , the quantity theory being perhaps the favorite argument . The effect on interest rates was widely disputed ...
... followed more slowly by the second , seemed to be the consensus of opinion , though reached by different lines of reasoning , the quantity theory being perhaps the favorite argument . The effect on interest rates was widely disputed ...
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Page 266 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 56 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 92 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 322 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 56 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 609 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 176 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 714 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 172 - Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known.
Page 92 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.