Self Culture, Volume 5Werner Company, 1897 - Self-culture |
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... march of civilization for the world , because there is scarcely a nook from Oceania to Japan where they are not in- tervening with fleets and armies and treaties . Moreover , these treaties , as in the partition of Africa , or in the ...
... march of civilization for the world , because there is scarcely a nook from Oceania to Japan where they are not in- tervening with fleets and armies and treaties . Moreover , these treaties , as in the partition of Africa , or in the ...
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... march on London . But in this he was disappointed , for at Derby he was compelled to return to the north , closely followed by new muster- ings of the royal troops under the Duke of Cumberland . The Highland chiefs had opposed the march ...
... march on London . But in this he was disappointed , for at Derby he was compelled to return to the north , closely followed by new muster- ings of the royal troops under the Duke of Cumberland . The Highland chiefs had opposed the march ...
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... march from home or lodging to the chosen halls of enlightenment . The majority of these come from the country districts , the Saxon from the lowland counties , the raw - boned Gael from the western isles , and not a few from Eng- land ...
... march from home or lodging to the chosen halls of enlightenment . The majority of these come from the country districts , the Saxon from the lowland counties , the raw - boned Gael from the western isles , and not a few from Eng- land ...
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... march of Retimo . There have also been conflicts , attended with bloodshed , near Mataxa , and here a Turkish frigate opened fire on the Christians . Incendiary fires are reported from several villages . The insurgents have presented to ...
... march of Retimo . There have also been conflicts , attended with bloodshed , near Mataxa , and here a Turkish frigate opened fire on the Christians . Incendiary fires are reported from several villages . The insurgents have presented to ...
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... march of improvement and reduc- tion of the cost of production do the work , and we shrug our shoulders and pass it all off as a fresh instance of the machinations of capital . W A Crisis HETHER the great revolu- tion by which 54 ...
... march of improvement and reduc- tion of the cost of production do the work , and we shrug our shoulders and pass it all off as a fresh instance of the machinations of capital . W A Crisis HETHER the great revolu- tion by which 54 ...
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Page 320 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 315 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 278 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 280 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 58 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 196 - Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.
Page 317 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 349 - And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet 'By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
Page 279 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 346 - Let us, then, unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people.