The Nation, Volume 70J.H. Richards, 1900 - Current events |
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... question which helps the opposition is thus injected into the can- vass , it remains to be seen whether the Republicans will be as strong on the financial issue in 1900 as they were in 1896 . What gave McKinley his tremen- dous ...
... question which helps the opposition is thus injected into the can- vass , it remains to be seen whether the Republicans will be as strong on the financial issue in 1900 as they were in 1896 . What gave McKinley his tremen- dous ...
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... question of slang or its international correspondences , we hesitate to accept chestnut as admissi- ble , while " galette " passes current in French . Hugo says that Blanqui , when in prison at Vincennes , lived chiefly on bread and ...
... question of slang or its international correspondences , we hesitate to accept chestnut as admissi- ble , while " galette " passes current in French . Hugo says that Blanqui , when in prison at Vincennes , lived chiefly on bread and ...
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... question , is some- thing Mr. Fiske still leaves in doubt . One brilliant disciple the Synthetic Philosophy can boast ; but , after him , we can call to mind only men whom it were flattery to call mediocrities in philosophy , In short ...
... question , is some- thing Mr. Fiske still leaves in doubt . One brilliant disciple the Synthetic Philosophy can boast ; but , after him , we can call to mind only men whom it were flattery to call mediocrities in philosophy , In short ...
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... question of the standard of value beyond further dispute , and address itself to other is- sues . Mr. Aldrich did well to expose the sham and pretence of those who profess to believe that the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to ...
... question of the standard of value beyond further dispute , and address itself to other is- sues . Mr. Aldrich did well to expose the sham and pretence of those who profess to believe that the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to ...
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... question of an admission of foreign labor should be seriously con- sidered . Finally , for the proper adminis- tration of the fiscal system in any of the dependencies of the United States , it is absolutely essential to establish a ...
... question of an admission of foreign labor should be seriously con- sidered . Finally , for the proper adminis- tration of the fiscal system in any of the dependencies of the United States , it is absolutely essential to establish a ...
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Page 67 - I do not say that the art is greatest which imitates best, because perhaps there is some art whose end is to create, and not to imitate. But I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas...
Page 67 - Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and silver flakes of orange spray tossed into the air around them, breaking over the...
Page 67 - ... opens in a cloud at sunset; the motionless masses of dark rock - dark though flushed with scarlet lichen, casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist and fitful sound; and over all, the multitudinous bars of amber and rose, the sacred clouds that have no darkness, and only exist to illumine, were seen in fathomless intervals between the solemn and orbed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in...
Page 67 - ... lightning opens in a cloud at sunset ; the motionless masses of dark rock — dark though flushed with scarlet lichen — casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist and fitful sound, and over all — the multitudinous...
Page 50 - With the signature of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain by their respective plenipotentiaries at. Paris on the 10th inst., and as the result of the victories of American arms, the future control, disposition and government of the Philippine islands are ceded to the United States.
Page 105 - The power then to lay and collect duties, imposts, and excises, may be exercised, and must be exercised throughout the United States. Does this term designate the whole, or any particular portion of the American empire ? Certainly this question can admit of but one answer. It is the name given to our great republic, which is composed of States and territories. The district of Columbia, or the territory west of the Missouri, is not less within the United States, than Maryland or Pennsylvania...
Page 105 - There is certainly no power given by the Constitution to the Federal Government to establish or maintain Colonies bordering on the United States or at a distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way, except by the admission of new States.
Page 124 - But it was when, to the sullen tyranny of Laud and Charles, had succeeded the fierce conflict of sects and factions, ambitious of ascendency and burning for revenge ; it was when the vices and ignorance which the old tyranny had generated, threatened the new freedom with destruction, that England missed that sobriety, that self-command, that perfect soundness of judgment, that perfect rectitude of intention, to which the history of revolutions furnishes no parallel, or furnishes a parallel in Washington...
Page 199 - It is agreed, however, that none of the immediately foregoing conditions and stipulations in sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this article shall apply to measures which the United States may find it necessary to take for securing by its own forces, the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order.
Page 199 - And it is hereby declared that the relinquishment or cession, as the case may be, to which the preceding paragraph refers, cannot in any respect impair the property or rights which by law belong to the peaceful possession of property of all kinds...