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... favor of , 397 Missouri , 506 New York , 528 Prohibition and , 335 prohibition in Ohio , 102 Lock trade , 86 , n 2 Locomotive service , Cost of , 184 , n 1 Locomotives , European production of , 364 , n I Logan , John A. , Proposed ...
... favor of , 397 Missouri , 506 New York , 528 Prohibition and , 335 prohibition in Ohio , 102 Lock trade , 86 , n 2 Locomotive service , Cost of , 184 , n 1 Locomotives , European production of , 364 , n I Logan , John A. , Proposed ...
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... favor of larger license in the matter of drinking or selling intoxicants . It was simply a declaration that taxation ... favors it . Public sentiment favors it in the rural districts and opposes it in the cities . It would seem ...
... favor of larger license in the matter of drinking or selling intoxicants . It was simply a declaration that taxation ... favors it . Public sentiment favors it in the rural districts and opposes it in the cities . It would seem ...
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... favor of the most practical pro- hibition possible ; in the nation if possible , if not possible in the nation then in the State ; if not possible in the State then in counties , cities , and villages . Only we believe it would be wiser ...
... favor of the most practical pro- hibition possible ; in the nation if possible , if not possible in the nation then in the State ; if not possible in the State then in counties , cities , and villages . Only we believe it would be wiser ...
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... favor of the more disinterested portions of the people has offended these parti- sans . What they will do is not yet known . In a State like New York , full of intrigue in politics , split up into factions within party lines them ...
... favor of the more disinterested portions of the people has offended these parti- sans . What they will do is not yet known . In a State like New York , full of intrigue in politics , split up into factions within party lines them ...
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... favors and privi- leges in transportation that they had enjoyed at the expense of their neighbors . " A KNOTTY POINT TO ... favor . And here again is where the Bulletin writer does not understand the attitude of the com- No. 2 . mission ...
... favors and privi- leges in transportation that they had enjoyed at the expense of their neighbors . " A KNOTTY POINT TO ... favor . And here again is where the Bulletin writer does not understand the attitude of the com- No. 2 . mission ...
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Page 107 - You hear that boy laughing? You think he's all fun. But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done. The children laugh loud as they troop to his call. And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.
Page 107 - There are three different sorts of contempt. One kind of contempt is, scandalizing the Court itself. There may be likewise a contempt of this Court, in abusing parties who are concerned in causes here. There may be also a contempt of this Court, in prejudicing mankind against persons, before the cause is heard.
Page 207 - ... the conditions of human life 'which would naturally give rise to religious beliefs, customs, and traditions, and then shows how the existence of such a thing as folk-lore is recognized when it is observed that there either exists or has existed, among the least cultured of the inhabitants of all the countries of modern Europe, a vast body of curious beliefs, customs, and narratives which are by tradition handed from generation to generation. These are essentially the property of the least-advanced...
Page 222 - I am in the most entire and hearty sympathy. It is a great many years since, at the outset of my career, I had to think seriously what life had to offer that was worth having. I came to the conclusion that the chief good, for me, was freedom to learn, think, and say what I pleased, when I pleased. I have acted on that conviction, and have availed myself of the "rara temporum felicitas ubi sentire qusB velis, et quae sentias dicere licet...
Page 22 - And if man cou'd have reason, none has more, That made his Paunch so rich and him so poor. With wealth he was not trusted, for...
Page 72 - With the possible exception of Lowell and Matthew Arnold, he was the ablest critical essayist of his time, and the place he has left will not be readily filled. Scarcely inferior to Macaulay in brilliance of diction and graphic portraiture, he was freer from, prejudice and passion, and more loyal to the truth of fact and history. He was a thoroughly honest man. He wrote with conscience always at his elbow, and never sacrificed his real convictions for the sake of epigram and antithesis. He instinctively...
Page 20 - As Kant said, on a like occasion, if anybody can answer that question, he is just the man I want to see. If he says that consciousness cannot exist, except in relation of cause and effect with certain organic molecules, I must ask how he knows that ; and if he says it can, I must put the same question.
Page 66 - for the advancement and prosecution of scientific research in its broadest sense, " now amounts to §26,000. As accumulated income will be available in December next, the trustees desire to receive applications for appropriations in aid of scientific work. This endowment is not for the benefit of any one department of science, but it is the intention of the trustees to give the preference to those investigations...
Page 107 - As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of the youth.
Page 19 - So with respect to immortality. As physical science states this problem, it seems to stand thus : " Is there any means of knowing whether the series of states of consciousness, which has been casually associated for threescore years and ten with the arrangement and movements of innumerable millions of successively different material molecules, can be continued, in like association, with some substance which has not the properties of matter and force...