The Sewanee Review, Volume 7University of the South, 1899 - American fiction |
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Page 41
... lived always . I am the old human suffering , I have lived six thousand years . " " That is true ! " retorts Danton . " For six thousand years Cain has been preserved in hatred , as the toad in the rock . The rock breaks , Cain springs ...
... lived always . I am the old human suffering , I have lived six thousand years . " " That is true ! " retorts Danton . " For six thousand years Cain has been preserved in hatred , as the toad in the rock . The rock breaks , Cain springs ...
Page 44
... lived a man who cared less for exact science , or comprehended more imperfectly what the term meant , than Hugo . His knowledge was the encyclo- pedic hodgepodge of a second - rate mediæval bookman . What he palms off as information ...
... lived a man who cared less for exact science , or comprehended more imperfectly what the term meant , than Hugo . His knowledge was the encyclo- pedic hodgepodge of a second - rate mediæval bookman . What he palms off as information ...
Page 54
... lived far across the seas ? Century succeeded century , however , and " the Middle Kingdom , ' ruled by the Son of Heaven , " was practically unknown to the Occident ; for , notwithstanding the occasional visits of explorers and the ...
... lived far across the seas ? Century succeeded century , however , and " the Middle Kingdom , ' ruled by the Son of Heaven , " was practically unknown to the Occident ; for , notwithstanding the occasional visits of explorers and the ...
Page 64
... lived on illusions . But how can there be any plan when our government has no real intelligence department , when it is uninformed ? How dare we entertain the idea of force , when we shun the responsi- bility attaching to alliances ...
... lived on illusions . But how can there be any plan when our government has no real intelligence department , when it is uninformed ? How dare we entertain the idea of force , when we shun the responsi- bility attaching to alliances ...
Page 89
... lived under the present competitive sys- tem of examinations , which Congressmen hold in all the districts of the United States , he would unquestionably have failed of appointment on account of his defective education . It is almost ...
... lived under the present competitive sys- tem of examinations , which Congressmen hold in all the districts of the United States , he would unquestionably have failed of appointment on account of his defective education . It is almost ...
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