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... universal suffrage has worked ill in our larger cities , as it certainly has , this has been mainly be- cause the hands that wielded it were untrained to its use . There the election of a majority of the trustees of the public money is ...
... universal suffrage has worked ill in our larger cities , as it certainly has , this has been mainly be- cause the hands that wielded it were untrained to its use . There the election of a majority of the trustees of the public money is ...
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... universal suffrage are equally unanswerable . " What , " we exclaim , " shall Tom , Dick , and Harry have as much weight in the scale as I ? " Of course , nothing could be more absurd . And yet universal suffrage has not been the ...
... universal suffrage are equally unanswerable . " What , " we exclaim , " shall Tom , Dick , and Harry have as much weight in the scale as I ? " Of course , nothing could be more absurd . And yet universal suffrage has not been the ...
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... Universal suffrage has in the United States sometimes been made the in- strument of inconsiderate changes , under the no- tion of reform , and this from a misconception of the true meaning of popular government . One of these has been ...
... Universal suffrage has in the United States sometimes been made the in- strument of inconsiderate changes , under the no- tion of reform , and this from a misconception of the true meaning of popular government . One of these has been ...
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... universal , gives to the words spoken here their true point and emphasis . Never be- fore have Americans , speaking in England , felt so clearly that they were in the land , not only of their fathers , but of their brethren , " Their ...
... universal , gives to the words spoken here their true point and emphasis . Never be- fore have Americans , speaking in England , felt so clearly that they were in the land , not only of their fathers , but of their brethren , " Their ...
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... universal sympathy expressed here by all classes and conditions of men has made us sensible as never before , that , if we are in a strange , we are not in a foreign land , and that if we are not at home we are at least in what Haw ...
... universal sympathy expressed here by all classes and conditions of men has made us sensible as never before , that , if we are in a strange , we are not in a foreign land , and that if we are not at home we are at least in what Haw ...
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Strona 21 - One knocked at the Beloved's door, and a voice asked from within 'Who is there?' and he answered 'It is I.' Then the voice said, 'This house will not hold me and thee'; and the door was not opened. Then went the lover into the desert and fasted and prayed in solitude, and after a year he returned and knocked again at the door; and again the voice asked 'Who is there?' and he said 'It is thyself;' and the door was opened to him.
Strona 95 - ... wisest possible diet. If we cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so neither can we hope to succeed with the opposite experiment. But we may spoil the silk for its legitimate uses. I can conceive of no healthier reading for a boy, or girl either, than Scott's novels, or Cooper's, to speak only of the dead. I have found them very good reading at least for one young man, for one middle-aged man, and for one who is growing old.
Strona 138 - No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change ! Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange ; They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost foist upon us that is old, And rather make them born to our desire Than think that we before have heard them told. Thy registers and thee I both defy, Not...
Strona 100 - ... Wordsworth. I have read them, including a recent very suggestive contribution of Mr. Swinburne, with no other sense of dissatisfaction than that which springs from " desiring this man's art and that man's scope." No, I am thinking only that whatever can be profitably or unprofitably said of him has been already said, and that what is said for the mere sake of saying it is not worth saying at all. Moreover, I myself have said of him what I thought good more than twenty years ago.1 It is as wearisome...
Strona 14 - A few centuries ago the chief end of man was to keep his soul alive, and then the little kernel of leaven that sets the gases at work was religious, and produced the Reformation.
Strona 51 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Strona 74 - Descriptive poets generally confuse us with multiplicity of detail ; we cannot see their forest for the trees ; but Coleridge never errs in this way. With instinctive tact he touches the right chord of association, and is satisfied, as we also are. I should find it hard to explain the singular charm of his diction, there is so much nicety of art and purpose in it, whether for music or meaning. Nor does it need any explanation, for we all feel it. The words seem common words enough, but in the order...
Strona 18 - One of the most curious of these frenzies of exclusion was that against the emancipation of the Jews. All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious, race that had ever lived in it — the race to whom we owed our religion and the purest spiritual stimulus and consolation to be found in all literature — a race in which ability seems as natural and hereditary as the curve of their noses, and whose blood, furtively mingling with...
Strona 36 - ... universe, as natural, let us say, as that the sun should go round the earth. It is a conviction that they will not surrender except on compulsion, and a wise society should look to it that this compulsion be not put upon them. For the individual man there is no radical cure, outside of human nature itself, for the evils to which human natvre is heir. The rule will always hold good that you must " Be your own palace or the world "s your gaol.
Strona 84 - But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination ? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the...