The Nation, Volume 70J.H. Richards, 1900 |
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Pagina 4
... reason for not re- garding the issue of next fall's contest as a foregone conclusion . In the first place , while McKinley's victory in 1896 was in one sense overwhelming , analysis shows that the change of less than 34,000 votes in ...
... reason for not re- garding the issue of next fall's contest as a foregone conclusion . In the first place , while McKinley's victory in 1896 was in one sense overwhelming , analysis shows that the change of less than 34,000 votes in ...
Pagina 5
... reason why this has been done is that we could hire foreign tonnage for our needs cheaper than we could own it . " If our capitalists , " he continues , " could not build and man ships so cheaply as those abroad , it is evident that ...
... reason why this has been done is that we could hire foreign tonnage for our needs cheaper than we could own it . " If our capitalists , " he continues , " could not build and man ships so cheaply as those abroad , it is evident that ...
Pagina 9
... reason to suppose that Transvaal without receiving affronts such as their plans of empire are on as magnificent would be met in the West by a " shot on a scale as their preparations for war . The sight . " The Boers either sold their ...
... reason to suppose that Transvaal without receiving affronts such as their plans of empire are on as magnificent would be met in the West by a " shot on a scale as their preparations for war . The sight . " The Boers either sold their ...
Pagina 10
... reason may have existed for my family retaining their interest in their old neighbors , the Washingtons ; but of this I have received no tradition . Since I left home , the old people who knew of the tra- dition will have died ; and it ...
... reason may have existed for my family retaining their interest in their old neighbors , the Washingtons ; but of this I have received no tradition . Since I left home , the old people who knew of the tra- dition will have died ; and it ...
Pagina 13
... reason , not to speak of another , in learning a language we ought to associate the foreign words directly with experiences of the things or actions they signify , and not directly with English words . But this is not the only principle ...
... reason , not to speak of another , in learning a language we ought to associate the foreign words directly with experiences of the things or actions they signify , and not directly with English words . But this is not the only principle ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...