Harper's Magazine, Volume 141Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1920 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... kind apologia is wholly deserved . I have never been " too proud to fight , " but a great deal too proud to wear laurels I haven't earned . Personally , I think the drubbing we are getting is wholesome , and likely to do good . We have ...
... kind apologia is wholly deserved . I have never been " too proud to fight , " but a great deal too proud to wear laurels I haven't earned . Personally , I think the drubbing we are getting is wholesome , and likely to do good . We have ...
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... the use of armed might . People who did not subscribe to the Red Cross funds were marked down , I am told , dis- missed from their posts , and socially ruined . Many episodes of that kind were reported , WHAT ENGLAND THINKS OF AMERICA 5.
... the use of armed might . People who did not subscribe to the Red Cross funds were marked down , I am told , dis- missed from their posts , and socially ruined . Many episodes of that kind were reported , WHAT ENGLAND THINKS OF AMERICA 5.
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... kind is repugnant to the tradi- tion and instinct of the American people . They have no use for " shining armor " and all the old shibboleths of war's pomp and pageantry which put a spell on European peoples . The military tradi- tion ...
... kind is repugnant to the tradi- tion and instinct of the American people . They have no use for " shining armor " and all the old shibboleths of war's pomp and pageantry which put a spell on European peoples . The military tradi- tion ...
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... kind doesn't sink into the soil . " Looking up critically at the heavens , McKellar expressed his settled conviction that in two weeks ' time hardly a blade or a shrub would be alive in the island of Newport . " Well , that will save us ...
... kind doesn't sink into the soil . " Looking up critically at the heavens , McKellar expressed his settled conviction that in two weeks ' time hardly a blade or a shrub would be alive in the island of Newport . " Well , that will save us ...
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... kind of nutri- ment . Popular slang and old pedantries , the dreams of philosophers and the cant of thieves , puns and perversions , forgot- ten fears and ancient superstitions , have all contributed to its vocabulary ; and some of our ...
... kind of nutri- ment . Popular slang and old pedantries , the dreams of philosophers and the cant of thieves , puns and perversions , forgot- ten fears and ancient superstitions , have all contributed to its vocabulary ; and some of our ...
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Page 782 - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading; but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator...
Page 123 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Page 480 - Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions; indeed, we have a natural repugnance to so doing. We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. I remember years ago attending a public...
Page 376 - tis figured in the flowers; Was never secret history But birds tell it in the bowers. One harvest from thy field Homeward brought the oxen strong; A second crop thine acres yield, Which I gather in a song.
Page 634 - But, after all, there are at least one or two things about that weather (or, if you please, effects produced by it) which we residents would not like to part with.
Page 481 - Opinions, on the other hand, which are the result of experience or of honest reasoning do not have this quality of "primary certitude." I remember when as a youth I heard a group of business men discussing the question of the immortality of the soul, I was outraged by the sentiment of doubt expressed by one of the party. As I look back now I see that I had at the time no interest in the matter and certainly no least argument to urge in favor of the belief in which I had been reared. But neither my...
Page 636 - Say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it. 13. Use the right word, not its second cousin.
Page 648 - I had invented motherhood.This perfect little boy was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.
Page 481 - ... primary certitude." I remember when as a youth I heard a group of business men discussing the question of the immortality of the soul, I was outraged by the sentiment of doubt expressed by one of the party. As I look back now I see that I had at the time no interest in the matter, and certainly no least. argument to urge in favor of the belief in which I had been reared. But neither my personal indifference to the issue, nor the fact that I had previously given it no attention, served to prevent...
Page 198 - This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen to harm An orchard away at the end of the farm All winter, cut off by a hill from the house.