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... doubt they contributed powerfully both to arouse and to calm public in- terest in the investigation of the ques tions connected with currency and ex- change , with the result that the modi- fications in the laws and practices which had ...
... doubt they contributed powerfully both to arouse and to calm public in- terest in the investigation of the ques tions connected with currency and ex- change , with the result that the modi- fications in the laws and practices which had ...
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... doubt well - meaning friends to broaden somewhat the restricted area in which the Catholic Church in Mex- ico is permitted to move ; but all such efforts have proved , and are likely to prove , futile , General Diaz having firmly ...
... doubt well - meaning friends to broaden somewhat the restricted area in which the Catholic Church in Mex- ico is permitted to move ; but all such efforts have proved , and are likely to prove , futile , General Diaz having firmly ...
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... doubt developed as his museum grew , but we cannot doubt that the original idea was to col- lect for the sake of collecting . It is impossible for one man to be an ex- pert in every department of science . art , and industry ; and to ...
... doubt developed as his museum grew , but we cannot doubt that the original idea was to col- lect for the sake of collecting . It is impossible for one man to be an ex- pert in every department of science . art , and industry ; and to ...
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... doubt it is satis- fied for a time , but it can only be for а time . The greatest , the funda- mental difficulty of conducting a mu- seum is that of finding space for the exhibition of collections which it is the primary duty of the ...
... doubt it is satis- fied for a time , but it can only be for а time . The greatest , the funda- mental difficulty of conducting a mu- seum is that of finding space for the exhibition of collections which it is the primary duty of the ...
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... doubt had their The Nation . excuses . They annexed the disso- lute monasteries that they might have the wherewithal to give and to employ . The Reformation was not always so ruthless . One might suppose from Franz Hals's canvases that ...
... doubt had their The Nation . excuses . They annexed the disso- lute monasteries that they might have the wherewithal to give and to employ . The Reformation was not always so ruthless . One might suppose from Franz Hals's canvases that ...
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Page 229 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 407 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 202 - At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!
Page 610 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 388 - Lamp of Earth ! where'er thou movest, Its dim shapes are clad with brightness, And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing ! ASIA.
Page 388 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 611 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.
Page 185 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 197 - By me o'r thee, as justments to the dead, Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know Whether thy bones had here their rest, or no. But now 'tis known, behold, behold, I bring Unto thy ghost th...
Page 388 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave ; they have in...