Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University LeagueEdward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam Self-culture magazine Company, 1897 |
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... kings . Now there is not a nation of that continent west of Turkey and Russia that does not have a popular representa- tive government . " " It was the success of America that fired the heart of European peoples and made them resolute ...
... kings . Now there is not a nation of that continent west of Turkey and Russia that does not have a popular representa- tive government . " " It was the success of America that fired the heart of European peoples and made them resolute ...
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... King would sit very uneasily with these volcanoes about his feet . A President has stronger nerves , as all may see . It is , however , Chicago that stirs our traveller to the highest point . " Chica- go , " he cries , " queen and ...
... King would sit very uneasily with these volcanoes about his feet . A President has stronger nerves , as all may see . It is , however , Chicago that stirs our traveller to the highest point . " Chica- go , " he cries , " queen and ...
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... King James VIII . " at the High Cross of Edin- burgh . Cope's army , which meanwhile had gone as far north as ... King's ships intercepted all succor from France . The battle was sharp and decisive , and , the day going against him ...
... King James VIII . " at the High Cross of Edin- burgh . Cope's army , which meanwhile had gone as far north as ... King's ships intercepted all succor from France . The battle was sharp and decisive , and , the day going against him ...
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... kings and potentates , when the Collegi um Generale was established in Glasgow by authority of Pope Nicholas V. The Papal Bull ... king , James II . of Scotland , being on the throne . The people had however time to give attention to the ...
... kings and potentates , when the Collegi um Generale was established in Glasgow by authority of Pope Nicholas V. The Papal Bull ... king , James II . of Scotland , being on the throne . The people had however time to give attention to the ...
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... King , warned by the fate of his father , refused to be urged on by the advocates of des- potism . He did not want ... King's intentions , com- pelled him to publish a proclamation for the banishment of Roman Catholic priests ; and by ...
... King , warned by the fate of his father , refused to be urged on by the advocates of des- potism . He did not want ... King's intentions , com- pelled him to publish a proclamation for the banishment of Roman Catholic priests ; and by ...
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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 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 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 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 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.
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 317 - I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning ; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention ; because you have done a great deal, when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.