The Yale Review, Volumen8,Parte1George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross Blackwell, 1919 |
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... century and a quarter preceding 1917. If a magician's wand could still the guns , cage the airships , and petrify the submarines to - day , those changes would still go on , making of the United States of America a new country . By no ...
... century and a quarter preceding 1917. If a magician's wand could still the guns , cage the airships , and petrify the submarines to - day , those changes would still go on , making of the United States of America a new country . By no ...
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... century ago . The United States was then actually isolated by a distance measured by over thirty days of average voyaging in small wooden sailing ships to Europe , and about one hundred and twenty days to Asia . After the revolt of the ...
... century ago . The United States was then actually isolated by a distance measured by over thirty days of average voyaging in small wooden sailing ships to Europe , and about one hundred and twenty days to Asia . After the revolt of the ...
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... century — to make plans in advance . The second feature is the skill with which vast bodies of men have been transported , fed on their journey , and ( what is more significant ) fed after they landed . Inas- much as an army which ...
... century — to make plans in advance . The second feature is the skill with which vast bodies of men have been transported , fed on their journey , and ( what is more significant ) fed after they landed . Inas- much as an army which ...
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... called the classes , is the growth of only a century or so . There was probably nothing at all like it in the days of Elizabeth or even of Charles the Second . The English manner was still racy when the inhabitants of Virginia , as we are.
... called the classes , is the growth of only a century or so . There was probably nothing at all like it in the days of Elizabeth or even of Charles the Second . The English manner was still racy when the inhabitants of Virginia , as we are.
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... centuries by countless continental rivalries and wars . Insularity was driven into the very bones of our people by the generation - long wars of Napoleon . A Frenchman , André Chevrillon , whose book , “ England and the War , " I ...
... centuries by countless continental rivalries and wars . Insularity was driven into the very bones of our people by the generation - long wars of Napoleon . A Frenchman , André Chevrillon , whose book , “ England and the War , " I ...
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Página 9 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Página 190 - As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of...
Página 432 - If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Página 389 - If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
Página 9 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are, of necessity, more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Página 14 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Página 389 - Square and they cry just like a pig when we are under the painfull necessity of putting it to Death. Miss Potune a Lady of my acquaintance praises me dreadfully. I repeated something out of Dean Swift, and she said I was fit for the stage, and you may think I was primmed up with majestick Pride, but upon my word I felt...
Página 190 - What powers ? " said he. " All of them," said I. " It is obvious that all the powers of Europe will be continually manoeuvring with us, to work us into their real or imaginary balances of power. They will all wish to make of us a makeweight candle, when they are weighing out their pounds.
Página 422 - Ages and the nineteenth century, devoted his genius to the task of exposing and destroying parliamentary corruption, then at its height. Walpole, unable to govern without corruption, promptly gagged the stage by a censorship which is in full force at the present moment. Fielding, driven out of the trade of Moliere and Aristophanes, took to that of Cervantes; and since then the English novel has been one of the glories of literature, whilst the English drama has been its disgrace.
Página 216 - God rest you, happy gentlemen, Who laid your good lives down. Who took the khaki and the gun Instead of cap and gown. God bring you to a fairer place Than even Oxford town.