The Dial, Volume 17Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1894 - Books |
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... reader " altogether . The impor- tant principle seems to be that nothing but lit- erature should be read at all , and the " readers ' in current use certainly contain much matter that cannot by any courtesy be called litera- ture . This ...
... reader " altogether . The impor- tant principle seems to be that nothing but lit- erature should be read at all , and the " readers ' in current use certainly contain much matter that cannot by any courtesy be called litera- ture . This ...
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... readers felt aggrieved at the omission of favorite names , and we are glad to afford a lover of the new Italian ... reader of THE DIAL put me in the way of finding out the color of the silk , especially that of the flag with de- vice No ...
... readers felt aggrieved at the omission of favorite names , and we are glad to afford a lover of the new Italian ... reader of THE DIAL put me in the way of finding out the color of the silk , especially that of the flag with de- vice No ...
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... readers , and to such only do these vol- umes appeal . He is a journalist , but his journalism is so dignified as to make the name almost a mis- nomer . His position upon philosophical and relig- ious questions and with him the two are ...
... readers , and to such only do these vol- umes appeal . He is a journalist , but his journalism is so dignified as to make the name almost a mis- nomer . His position upon philosophical and relig- ious questions and with him the two are ...
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... readers , it will not conduce to its popularity as a text - book , at least in the United States . Like all the new ... reader , " Biblio- graphica " will not make its appeal in vain . 66 Leaves from a Parisian Note - Book . " My Paris ...
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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.