Ten Books for the People: Reports, Programmes, Etc., Given to the Members and Ticket Holders of the Cleveland Educational BureauCharles Edward Bolton |
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... means of forging weapons . Hence " there was no smith to be found through- out all the land of Israel ; for the Philistines said , Lest the Hebrews make them swords and spears . But the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen ...
... means of forging weapons . Hence " there was no smith to be found through- out all the land of Israel ; for the Philistines said , Lest the Hebrews make them swords and spears . But the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen ...
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... means : I want all the iron I can find to resist my enemies - as for gold , I get it from England . " The lesson is , that the strength and wealth of nations depends upon coal and iron , men being considered , far more than upon gold ...
... means : I want all the iron I can find to resist my enemies - as for gold , I get it from England . " The lesson is , that the strength and wealth of nations depends upon coal and iron , men being considered , far more than upon gold ...
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... means of charcoal of wood . It was only when the wood in the neighborhood of the iron works had been almost exhausted , that the manufacturers were driven to entertain the idea of using coal as a substitute ; but more than a hundred ...
... means of charcoal of wood . It was only when the wood in the neighborhood of the iron works had been almost exhausted , that the manufacturers were driven to entertain the idea of using coal as a substitute ; but more than a hundred ...
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... means of pit - coal was rendered cheap and expeditious , and soon became enormously increased . Richard Rey- nolds was an interesting character . He disapproved of making charitable bequests by will , as being the foundation of enormous ...
... means of pit - coal was rendered cheap and expeditious , and soon became enormously increased . Richard Rey- nolds was an interesting character . He disapproved of making charitable bequests by will , as being the foundation of enormous ...
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... means of a cup and spoon showing the condensation of steam . Young Watt was sent to a commercial school , where he acquired the cus- tomary education ; but his chief success lay in mathematics . At the age of nineteen he went to London ...
... means of a cup and spoon showing the condensation of steam . Young Watt was sent to a commercial school , where he acquired the cus- tomary education ; but his chief success lay in mathematics . At the age of nineteen he went to London ...
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Page 76 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...
Page 76 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 243 - Your fate I believe to be certain, though it is deferred by a physical cause. As long as you have a boundless extent of fertile and unoccupied land...
Page 187 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon' them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Page 243 - As I said before, when a society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand ; or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth...
Page 243 - It is quite plain that your Government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority, for with you the majority is the Government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy.
Page 182 - COLUMBIA, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world offers homage to thee ! Thy mandates make heroes assemble, When Liberty's form stands in view; Thy banners make Tyranny tremble, borne by the red, white, and blue.
Page 1 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 76 - I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel : "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal ; I0 Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Page 187 - He was always cool, and nobody ever observed the least variation in his countenance : he could refuse more gracefully than other people could grant ; and those who went away from him the most dissatisfied as to the substance of their business, were yet personally charmed with him, and, in some degree, comforted by his manner.