The Stoddard Library: Eliot-GladstoneG.L. Shuman & Company, 1913 - Anthologies |
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John Lawson Stoddard. of Roman civilization in the days of the Empire - heartless cruelty , and unfathomable corruption . If there had been a refuge anywhere for the sentiments of out- raged virtue and outraged humanity , we might have ...
John Lawson Stoddard. of Roman civilization in the days of the Empire - heartless cruelty , and unfathomable corruption . If there had been a refuge anywhere for the sentiments of out- raged virtue and outraged humanity , we might have ...
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... civilization of the Hellenized Orient , with all its refinement and all its depravity . Nor indeed was his teaching neglected by his countrymen . Society was being transformed with almost dizzy rapidity . The assimilation of Orientals ...
... civilization of the Hellenized Orient , with all its refinement and all its depravity . Nor indeed was his teaching neglected by his countrymen . Society was being transformed with almost dizzy rapidity . The assimilation of Orientals ...
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... civilization is struggling under the bur- den of very similar problems , we are far less acutely conscious of their incidence . To ancient Italy they were a matter of life and death . The political apathy of the civilized nations and ...
... civilization is struggling under the bur- den of very similar problems , we are far less acutely conscious of their incidence . To ancient Italy they were a matter of life and death . The political apathy of the civilized nations and ...
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... civilization and the same needs as ourselves grow far more corn than they consume , and are glad to sell it for our industrial products . These communi- ties are thus in a position to supply us in such abundance that many industrial ...
... civilization and the same needs as ourselves grow far more corn than they consume , and are glad to sell it for our industrial products . These communi- ties are thus in a position to supply us in such abundance that many industrial ...
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... civilization of to- day . But the instruments of production at our disposal are so powerful , and the wealth already accumulated so great , that , so long as there is no slackening in the energy of our captains of industry , it is easy ...
... civilization of to- day . But the instruments of production at our disposal are so powerful , and the wealth already accumulated so great , that , so long as there is no slackening in the energy of our captains of industry , it is easy ...
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Page 274 - the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them...
Page 264 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 275 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
Page 59 - BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
Page 55 - TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.
Page 192 - And don't you make any noise ! " So toddling off to his trundle-bed He dreamt of the pretty toys. And as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue, — Oh, the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy friends are true. Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, Each in the same old place, Awaiting the touch of a little hand, The smile of a little face. And they wonder, as waiting these long years through, In the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little...
Page 3 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 261 - Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them...
Page 432 - And he stirred it round and round and round, And he sniffed at the foaming froth ; When I ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals In the scum of the boiling broth. " And I eat that cook in a week or less, And — as I eating be The last of his chops, why, I almost drops, For a wessel in sight I see!
Page 273 - COURTEOUS READER : I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; for, though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of...