The International Quarterly, Volume 8Frederick Albert Richardson Fox, Duffield & Company, 1903 |
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... regard seems to be that they may be led , rather than driven , so to develop their old system of checking the chief's laws by deliberative councils , that the council shall at length supersede the chieftainship . That , however , would ...
... regard seems to be that they may be led , rather than driven , so to develop their old system of checking the chief's laws by deliberative councils , that the council shall at length supersede the chieftainship . That , however , would ...
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... regard the store which the experience of generations innumerable had bred in their minds and bodies . It is , in a word , clear that except for influences which have come upon our kind since it entered on its human estate , they would ...
... regard the store which the experience of generations innumerable had bred in their minds and bodies . It is , in a word , clear that except for influences which have come upon our kind since it entered on its human estate , they would ...
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... regard courage in battle as the noblest of all motives . Every possible effort was made to stimulate bravery , for whoever could so much as put on the manner of it was sure to find him- self welcome in the fearing crowd . As literature ...
... regard courage in battle as the noblest of all motives . Every possible effort was made to stimulate bravery , for whoever could so much as put on the manner of it was sure to find him- self welcome in the fearing crowd . As literature ...
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... regard to marriage . A Frenchman , of whatever age , cannot marry without the formal consent of his parents , or , if they be lacking , of his grandparents , in case these latter are still alive . We see what the result of such a ...
... regard to marriage . A Frenchman , of whatever age , cannot marry without the formal consent of his parents , or , if they be lacking , of his grandparents , in case these latter are still alive . We see what the result of such a ...
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... regard to the identity of the persons to be married , and the terrible mistake of which the celebrated painter , Angelica Kauffmann , was a victim in England , when , thinking that she was marrying a great lord , the Comte de Hora , she ...
... regard to the identity of the persons to be married , and the terrible mistake of which the celebrated painter , Angelica Kauffmann , was a victim in England , when , thinking that she was marrying a great lord , the Comte de Hora , she ...
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Página 267 - If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is it not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Página 98 - It is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily ; and now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples. It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
Página 267 - Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
Página 267 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
Página 266 - They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art, and persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do, is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now at last ripe, and inviting nations to the harvest.
Página 273 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit - not to be reckoned one character - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Página 156 - We are going to turn life upside down About a thing called gold! We are going to want the earth, and take As much as we can hold! We are going to wear great piles of stuff Outside our proper skins! We are going to have Diseases! And Accomplishments!! And Sins!!!" Then they all rose up in fury Against their boastful friend, For prehistoric patience Cometh quickly to an end: Said one, "This is chimerical! Utopian! Absurd!
Página 96 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Página 157 - I have long felt that the prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes, are...
Página 266 - Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.