Penn Monthly Magazine, Volumen12Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall University Press Company, 1881 |
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... interest of the opposition in the reform is still clearer . It would throw the offices open to Democrats equally with Republicans , and give each a fair share of that money which seems to many Ameri- cans more precious than any other ...
... interest of the opposition in the reform is still clearer . It would throw the offices open to Democrats equally with Republicans , and give each a fair share of that money which seems to many Ameri- cans more precious than any other ...
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... interest in the continuance of his party in power . He knows that a change means official decapitation . It is absurd to suppose that he will not do his share to prevent such a catastrophe . Under the present administration these ...
... interest in the continuance of his party in power . He knows that a change means official decapitation . It is absurd to suppose that he will not do his share to prevent such a catastrophe . Under the present administration these ...
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... interest in the questions of just such reforms as are here broached . In England a minister of state , the Secretary for Home Affairs , took the initiative in an effort to de- termine how far corporal punishment could be substituted for ...
... interest in the questions of just such reforms as are here broached . In England a minister of state , the Secretary for Home Affairs , took the initiative in an effort to de- termine how far corporal punishment could be substituted for ...
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... interest they had shown during the reading of the report of his excellent friend Mr. Towser , showed that there was ... interests to their comfort . It was meant to serve as a moral check and balance in the great ma- chine of society ...
... interest they had shown during the reading of the report of his excellent friend Mr. Towser , showed that there was ... interests to their comfort . It was meant to serve as a moral check and balance in the great ma- chine of society ...
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... interest and neighborly help , which will be extended to him when he resumes his place in society . In a word , it is to the human in him , and not to the animal , it will address itself , in seeking to fulfil the command Remember them ...
... interest and neighborly help , which will be extended to him when he resumes his place in society . In a word , it is to the human in him , and not to the animal , it will address itself , in seeking to fulfil the command Remember them ...
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Página 450 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter...
Página 785 - T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave; No ban of endless night exiles the brave; And to the saner mind We rather seem the dead that stayed behind.
Página 583 - But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it.
Página 929 - Upon advised consideration of the charges," said he, " descending into my own conscience, and calling my memory to account so far as I am able, I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence.
Página 208 - Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon.
Página 123 - And so it remains to all time a lasting record of human needs and human consolations ; the voice of a brother who, ages ago, felt, and suffered, and renounced, in the cloister, perhaps, with serge gown and tonsured head, with much chanting and long fasts, and with a fashion of speech different from ours, but under the same silent far-off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same strivings, the same failures, the same weariness.
Página 214 - That this his labour has found hitherto, in money or money's worth, small recompense or none ; that he is by no means sure of its ever finding recompense, but thinks that, if so, it will be at a distant time, when he, the labourer, will probably no longer be in need of money, and those dear to him will still be in need of it.
Página 507 - ... the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important, and what duty more pressing on its legislature, than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those, who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
Página 205 - I arose and wrestled with them in travail and agony of spirit. Whether I ate I know not ; whether I slept I know not ; I only know that when I came forth again it was with the direful persuasion that I was the miserable owner of a diabolical arrangement, called a 'stomach; and I have never been free from that knowledge from that hour to this, and I suppose that I never shall be until I am laid away in my grave.
Página 861 - ... and of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by said Commission.