The Review of Reviews, Volume 8Albert Shaw Review of Reviews, 1893 - Literature |
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... Building at the World's Fair , 35 , 37 . The MacMonnies Fountain , 36 . The Edison Tower , 38 . The Two - Thousand - Horse - Power Generator , 39 . Fac - simile of Edison's Handwriting , 42 . Phonograph Room in Edison's Laboratory , 45 ...
... Building at the World's Fair , 35 , 37 . The MacMonnies Fountain , 36 . The Edison Tower , 38 . The Two - Thousand - Horse - Power Generator , 39 . Fac - simile of Edison's Handwriting , 42 . Phonograph Room in Edison's Laboratory , 45 ...
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... building in which Wilkes Booth had committed the desperate deed collapsed and crushed to death a score of government clerks . It was in Ford's Theatre that Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in April , 1865. The government afterwards ...
... building in which Wilkes Booth had committed the desperate deed collapsed and crushed to death a score of government clerks . It was in Ford's Theatre that Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in April , 1865. The government afterwards ...
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... building has since been used by the staff of clerks compiling the voluminous war records , and by a part of the pension force . In the course of some repairs intended to strengthen its walls , the floors fell in during working hours on ...
... building has since been used by the staff of clerks compiling the voluminous war records , and by a part of the pension force . In the course of some repairs intended to strengthen its walls , the floors fell in during working hours on ...
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... building on the lake front . Distinguished speakers are to be heard every day ; and there was never before any such procession of the world's intellectual leaders as will have passed in and out of that building during the present season ...
... building on the lake front . Distinguished speakers are to be heard every day ; and there was never before any such procession of the world's intellectual leaders as will have passed in and out of that building during the present season ...
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... building . For the present the country is almost sufficiently supplied with the great steam railways . The activity that was absorbed ten years ago in adding to the railroad mileage of the country has of late been largely diverted to ...
... building . For the present the country is almost sufficiently supplied with the great steam railways . The activity that was absorbed ten years ago in adding to the railroad mileage of the country has of late been largely diverted to ...
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Page 407 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 222 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Page 247 - Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 410 - Washington be appointed commander of the forces raised, or to be raised, for the defense of American liberty...
Page 58 - It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power ; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future condition of the earth can be held to give dispiriting views as to the destiny of the race of intelligent beings by which it is at present inhabited.
Page 421 - A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer...
Page 284 - He was one of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly.
Page 247 - ... must be determined by the General Assembly, elected by and in sympathy with the people, and to them is relegated the subject to take such action as they may deem just and best in the matter, maintaining the present law in those portions of the State where it is now or can be made efficient and giving to the localities such methods of controlling and regulating the liquor traffic as will best serve the cause of temperance and morality.
Page 169 - From the rising of the sun, even to the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 189 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth : and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.