A Commenment Address Before the [Phi Beta Kappa] Society of Vassar College, June 8, 1903: The Thing to DoVassar chapter of the [Phi Beta Kappa] society [The De Vinne Press], 1903 - 18 pages |
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... house - parties can be gath- ered ; if in one's own land , one longs for the boulevards or the Alps ; if abroad , one is eager to try the new steamer back ; if at the sea - shore , one wants suddenly to know what the mountains are like ...
... house - parties can be gath- ered ; if in one's own land , one longs for the boulevards or the Alps ; if abroad , one is eager to try the new steamer back ; if at the sea - shore , one wants suddenly to know what the mountains are like ...
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... houses . A cry that the money that was good enough for us should be good enough for our foreign debtors carries half the people cap- tive ; a great National Convention comes near nominating the chief advocate of this notion for the ...
... houses . A cry that the money that was good enough for us should be good enough for our foreign debtors carries half the people cap- tive ; a great National Convention comes near nominating the chief advocate of this notion for the ...
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... had 1339 in 1886 and 2418 in 1900. Indiana granted 1655 in 1886 , and no less than 4699 in 1900 , more than three times as many as there were in 1882 , or in any earlier year . " 18 THE THING TO DO bound to house and feed.
... had 1339 in 1886 and 2418 in 1900. Indiana granted 1655 in 1886 , and no less than 4699 in 1900 , more than three times as many as there were in 1882 , or in any earlier year . " 18 THE THING TO DO bound to house and feed.
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The Thing to Do Whitelaw Reid. 18 THE THING TO DO bound to house and feed the crank and the criminal better than he can the children of his loins and the wife of his bosom . Are the burdens thus laid out for the conservative and moder ...
The Thing to Do Whitelaw Reid. 18 THE THING TO DO bound to house and feed the crank and the criminal better than he can the children of his loins and the wife of his bosom . Are the burdens thus laid out for the conservative and moder ...
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... House of Commons for your nearest neighbours , the people of Bristol . Here Here he came repeatedly for rest and enjoyment ; and here he came too when he knew the shadow of death was upon him . In this very house he house he spent the ...
... House of Commons for your nearest neighbours , the people of Bristol . Here Here he came repeatedly for rest and enjoyment ; and here he came too when he knew the shadow of death was upon him . In this very house he house he spent the ...
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Page 23 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 11 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 24 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 9 - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
Page 27 - To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This may even prevent the necessity of going to war by discouraging belligerent powers from committing such violations of the rights of the neutral party as may, first or last, leave no other option.
Page 17 - Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three. To make a new Thermopylae!
Page 19 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 12 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! ADA ! sole daughter of my house and heart ? When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, But with a hope. — Awaking with a start, The waters heave around me ; and on high The winds lift up their voices : I depart, Whither I know not ; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
Page 34 - We should then have only to include the north in our confederacy, which would be, of course, in the first 'war, and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation; and I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-government.
Page 34 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.