The Dial, Volume 17Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1894 - Books |
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... son's " The Service of Man , " Dr. Martineau's " Types of Ethical Theory , " and some of Tennyson's later poems . The papers are all brief , but several are often devoted to the same subject . There are groups of four each upon Carlyle ...
... son's " The Service of Man , " Dr. Martineau's " Types of Ethical Theory , " and some of Tennyson's later poems . The papers are all brief , but several are often devoted to the same subject . There are groups of four each upon Carlyle ...
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... Sons in connection with Messrs . Kegan Paul , Trench , Trübner & Co. of London . The plan of publication is certainly novel . The first number made its appearance early in April , and the last will be issued at the end of 1896. Subscrip ...
... Sons in connection with Messrs . Kegan Paul , Trench , Trübner & Co. of London . The plan of publication is certainly novel . The first number made its appearance early in April , and the last will be issued at the end of 1896. Subscrip ...
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... Sons . The text is selected from Galland , and edited virginibus puerisque by Miss E. Dixon , of Girton College . There are fifteen tales in this volume , among them be- ing the seven voyages of Sindbad , whose name is un- accountably ...
... Sons . The text is selected from Galland , and edited virginibus puerisque by Miss E. Dixon , of Girton College . There are fifteen tales in this volume , among them be- ing the seven voyages of Sindbad , whose name is un- accountably ...
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... son , William Henry Apple- ton , the present head of the firm , who has well earned his title as the Nestor of American ... sons subsequently became partners Daniel Sid- ney , George Swett , and Samuel Francis . The business was removed ...
... son , William Henry Apple- ton , the present head of the firm , who has well earned his title as the Nestor of American ... sons subsequently became partners Daniel Sid- ney , George Swett , and Samuel Francis . The business was removed ...
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... Speeches , and an Account of the Affairs of England during his Time . By Samuel Harden Church . Illus . , 8vo , gilt top , uncut , pp . 524. G. P. Putnam's Sons . $ 3 . Life of St. Francis of Assisi . By Paul Sabatier 1894. ] 21 THE DIAL.
... Speeches , and an Account of the Affairs of England during his Time . By Samuel Harden Church . Illus . , 8vo , gilt top , uncut , pp . 524. G. P. Putnam's Sons . $ 3 . Life of St. Francis of Assisi . By Paul Sabatier 1894. ] 21 THE DIAL.
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Page 34 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 34 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 34 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
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Page 33 - Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate its evils.
Page 145 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
Page 34 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Page 145 - Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 34 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 219 - But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it; he first made writing easily an art; first showed us to conclude the sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together that the reader is out of breath to overtake it.