Post-impressions: An Irresponsible ChronicleDodd, Mead, 1914 - 262 páginas |
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Página 137 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet: I should have slept; then had I been at rest: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves...
Página 140 - ... such sources as Smith's Debates in the Secession Convention, The Official War Records, etc., etc. In like manner, the courses in the constitutional and political history of the United States involve, in addition to the "source book" documents, studies in such works as Madison's Papers, The Federalist, Elliot's Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,
Página 207 - Ah ! but, my good sir, you mustn't tell us what she told you — it's not evidence. Now an affidavit from a thunderstorm, or a few words on oath from a heavy shower, would meet with all the attention they deserve.
Página 140 - Proposition," in the sense in which Euclid employs the term and not as one might say now, "a cloak and suit proposition." 8 See the Declaration of Independence in Albert Bushnell Hart's "American History Told by Contemporaries" (4 vols., Boston, 1898-1901).
Página 83 - PEGATI." The writer of the second will, Samuel D. Howard, aged twentyone, died in the mine ; his will in part is in these words : "Alive at 10.30 o'clock yet. Sam D. Howard and Brother Alfred is with me yet. A good many dead mules and men. I tried to save some, but came almost losing myself. If I am dead give my diamond ring to Mamie Robinson. The ring is coming to the Post Office. Henry can have the ring I have in my good clothes. The only thing I regret is that my brother could not help mother...
Página 139 - ... conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 5 that all men are created equal.6 Now we are engaged in a great civil war,7 testing whether that nation,8 or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,9 can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield 10 of that war. NOTES 1 Ie, eighty-seven years ago. The Gettysburg Address was delivered Nov. 19, 1863. Lincoln is here referring to the Declaration of Independence. 2 Figuratively speaking. To take " fathers " in a literal sense would, of...
Página 203 - He shivered and shook as he gave the sign For the stroke he didn't deserve; When all of a sudden his eye met mine. And it seemed to brace his nerve; For he nodded his head and kissed his hand. And he whistled an air, did he, As the sabre true Cut cleanly through His cervical vertebrae!
Página 89 - ... August, John P. Wesley, fortyseven years old, in business at No. 634 East Twenty-sixth Street as a jobber in tools and hardware, was descending the stairs to the downtown platform of the Subway at Twenty-eighth Street, when it occurred to him suddenly how odd it was that he should be going home. His grip tightened on the hand rail and he stopped short in his tracks, his eyes fixed on the ground in pained perplexity. The crowd behind him, thrown back upon itself by this abrupt action, halted only...
Página 91 - After dinner he went out and watered the lawn, which,' after his wife and the girls, he loved most. He plied the hose deliberately, his eye alert for bald patches. Of late the lawn had not been coming on well, because of a scorching sun and the lack of rain. A quiet chat with his wife on matters of domestic economy ushered in the end of a busy day. At the end of the day there was another day just like it. And now, motionless in the crowd, Wesley was asking whether right to the end of life this succession...
Página 90 - LITERATURE of the Subway. Was there any reason for doing that, other than habit? He wondered why it would not be just as reasonable to cross the avenue and take an uptown train instead. Wesley had been taking the downtown train at Twenty-eighth Street at 5:15 in the afternoon ever since there was a Subway. At Brooklyn Bridge 10 he changed to an express and went to the end of the line. At the end of the line there was a boat which took him across the harbor. At the end of the boat ride there was a...