Switchmen's Journal, Volume 5

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1890
 

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Página 483 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced — no matter what complexion, incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon...
Página 233 - And hear it patter in my house once more ; If I could mend a broken cart to-day, To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky, There is no woman in God's world could say She was more blissfully content than I. But ah ! the dainty pillow next my own Is never rumpled by a shining head ; My singing birdling from its nest is flown ; The little boy I used to kiss is dead.
Página 233 - You almost are too tired to pray to-night. But it is blessedness! A year ago I did not see it as I do to-day,— We are so dull and thankless; and too slow To catch the sunshine till it slips away. And now it...
Página 486 - There's a good time coming, boys, A good time coming: The pen shall supersede the sword ; And Right, not Might, shall be the lord In the good time coming. Worth, not Birth, shall rule mankind, And be acknowledged stronger; The proper impulse has been given; — Wait a little longer.
Página 233 - If from your own the dimpled hands had slipped, And ne'er would nestle in your palm again; If the white feet into their grave had tripped, I could not blame you for your heartache then. I wonder so that mothers ever fret...
Página 436 - The imputation of novelty is a terrible charge amongst those who judge of men's heads, as they do of their perukes, by the fashion ; and can allow none to be right, but the received doctrines. Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote any where at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.
Página 453 - The general rule resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy is that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and, in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly.
Página 360 - I have seen one in whom some low vice had become a habit, make himself a plaything of a set of riotous children with as much delight in his countenance as if nothing but goodness had ever been expressed in it; and have felt as much of kindness and sympathy toward him as I have of revolting toward another, who has gone through life with all due propriety, with a cold and supercilious bearing toward children, which makes them shrinking and still.
Página 453 - Railroad companies are common carriers and liable as such. As such companies necessarily have many employes who can not possibly control those who should exercise care and diligence in the running of trains, such companies shall be liable to such employes as to. passengers for injuries arising from the want of such care and diligence.
Página 359 - When children are lying about seemingly idle and dull, we, who have become case-hardened by time and satiety, forget that they are all sensation, that their outstretched bodies are drinking in from the common sun and air, that every sound is taken note of by the ear, that every floating shadow and passing form come and touch at the sleepy eye, and that the little circumstances and the material world about them make their best school, and will be the instructers and formers of their characters for...

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