The Review of Reviews, Volume 8Albert Shaw Review of Reviews, 1893 - Literature |
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... means , in the Northern States , although those of Lee , Stonewall Jackson and various other Southern leaders are always mentioned with respect and usually with admiration and esteem . It is , then , a creditable change in the tone of ...
... means , in the Northern States , although those of Lee , Stonewall Jackson and various other Southern leaders are always mentioned with respect and usually with admiration and esteem . It is , then , a creditable change in the tone of ...
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... means something more than a passing craze for a temporarily popular amusement . The safety bicycle is one of the revolu- tionizing inventions of this age , and it is in its way destined to accomplish as important social results as the ...
... means something more than a passing craze for a temporarily popular amusement . The safety bicycle is one of the revolu- tionizing inventions of this age , and it is in its way destined to accomplish as important social results as the ...
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... means the electrical action of nearly 15,000 horse - power of dynamo electric machinery is controlled , In operation it is very simple , the appearance of complication being caused by the multiplicity of con- nections . To design a ...
... means the electrical action of nearly 15,000 horse - power of dynamo electric machinery is controlled , In operation it is very simple , the appearance of complication being caused by the multiplicity of con- nections . To design a ...
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... means to ends ; and , above all , the distinct- ive inventive faculty reached in him their apogee . The mere mass of this extraordinary man's work gives in itself a striking idea of the force which he exerts in our material progress ...
... means to ends ; and , above all , the distinct- ive inventive faculty reached in him their apogee . The mere mass of this extraordinary man's work gives in itself a striking idea of the force which he exerts in our material progress ...
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... MEANS . There was a saving human quality of error in the boy to amply redeem him from the colorless perfec- tion of the story - book model . One is almost glad to hear that he was not by any means a paragon as an operator , and that he ...
... MEANS . There was a saving human quality of error in the boy to amply redeem him from the colorless perfec- tion of the story - book model . One is almost glad to hear that he was not by any means a paragon as an operator , and that he ...
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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.