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... Passing of Ruskin , The 63 L Passion Play , The 281 Paton , Sir Noël .. 473 Labor , Strikes , and the Attitude of ... 370 Peddlers of Constantinople , The 29 Lady Day - The Feast of the Annunciation . 24 Philadelphia T. Square Club ...
... Passing of Ruskin , The 63 L Passion Play , The 281 Paton , Sir Noël .. 473 Labor , Strikes , and the Attitude of ... 370 Peddlers of Constantinople , The 29 Lady Day - The Feast of the Annunciation . 24 Philadelphia T. Square Club ...
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... passed out at the south porch and down the winding wood path- way to the Houghton Memorial Chapel , making a unique and impressive picture as it wound slowly down , underneath the tall oaks , the sunlight falling upon the robes and ...
... passed out at the south porch and down the winding wood path- way to the Houghton Memorial Chapel , making a unique and impressive picture as it wound slowly down , underneath the tall oaks , the sunlight falling upon the robes and ...
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... passed in such a way as to pour a raking fire of grape and canister into all three ; then , turning and taking a favorable position , she continued to pour broadsides into the doomed ships . Soon the fortunes of the day were completely ...
... passed in such a way as to pour a raking fire of grape and canister into all three ; then , turning and taking a favorable position , she continued to pour broadsides into the doomed ships . Soon the fortunes of the day were completely ...
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... passed until finally it raged as furiously as the battle itself . Elliott finally challenged Perry , and Perry preferred charges against Elliott . His kind heart , so Perry confessed , had led him into the folly of condoning the offence ...
... passed until finally it raged as furiously as the battle itself . Elliott finally challenged Perry , and Perry preferred charges against Elliott . His kind heart , so Perry confessed , had led him into the folly of condoning the offence ...
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... passed by the party which still professes to stand for conservatism and " things as they are . " The Liberals are trying to outdo their Conservative opponents in the direction of socialistic legislation , and a state of things has been ...
... passed by the party which still professes to stand for conservatism and " things as they are . " The Liberals are trying to outdo their Conservative opponents in the direction of socialistic legislation , and a state of things has been ...
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Page 362 - What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes; I am: Then fly: what! from myself? Great reason why; Lest I revenge. What! myself upon myself? Alack! I love myself. Wherefore? for any good That I myself have done unto myself? O! no: alas! I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself.
Page 9 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, "See, this is new"? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 145 - THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 97 - I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
Page 362 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 356 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 276 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 145 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
Page 321 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name, that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high...
Page 330 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.