American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1897 - 387 páginas |
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... rich one , unless there be some extraordinary difference between the two in mental and moral strength . The view that war is desirable omits also the consideration that modern social and industrial life affords ample opportunities for ...
... rich one , unless there be some extraordinary difference between the two in mental and moral strength . The view that war is desirable omits also the consideration that modern social and industrial life affords ample opportunities for ...
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... rich or poor . It is often assumed that the educated classes be- come impotent in a democracy , because the represen- tatives of those classes are not exclusively chosen to public office . This argument is a very fallacious one . It ...
... rich or poor . It is often assumed that the educated classes be- come impotent in a democracy , because the represen- tatives of those classes are not exclusively chosen to public office . This argument is a very fallacious one . It ...
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... rich people who are not educated and plenty of educated people who are not rich , just as medieval society produced illiterate nobles and cultivated monks . Persons who object to manhood suffrage as the last resort for the settlement of ...
... rich people who are not educated and plenty of educated people who are not rich , just as medieval society produced illiterate nobles and cultivated monks . Persons who object to manhood suffrage as the last resort for the settlement of ...
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... rich enough to carry out immense public works , such as aqueducts , baths , temples , palaces , and theaters , would necessarily possess also the means of giving durability to their form of government ; but the experience of Rome proves ...
... rich enough to carry out immense public works , such as aqueducts , baths , temples , palaces , and theaters , would necessarily possess also the means of giving durability to their form of government ; but the experience of Rome proves ...
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... rich man than for the poor man to bring up his children well . Families of moderate means have a great advantage over the rich in this respect . In this matter of material well - being there is surely some question concerning the ...
... rich man than for the poor man to bring up his children well . Families of moderate means have a great advantage over the rich in this respect . In this matter of material well - being there is surely some question concerning the ...
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Página 246 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Página 247 - To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Página 219 - BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory...
Página 245 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Página 246 - THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.
Página 246 - ... and the men .of labour spent their strength in daily strugglings for bread to maintain the vital strength they laboured with; so living in a daily circulation of sorrow, living but to work, and working but to live, as if daily bread were the only end of a wearisome life, and a wearisome life the only occasion of daily bread.
Página 246 - The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.
Página 257 - ... young man and the young woman work and save in order that they may be married and have a home of their own; once married, they work and save that they may bring up well a family. The supreme object of the struggling and striving of most men is the family. One might almost say that the security and elevation of the family and of family life are the prime objects of civilization, and the ultimate ends of all industry and trade.
Página 215 - that it does not matter what subject the child studies, so that he studies something thoroughly in an observational method. If the method be right, it does not matter among the numerous subjects well fitted to develop this important faculty which he chooses or which be chosen for him.
Página 250 - Taking food and drink is a great enjoyment for healthy people, and those who do not enjoy eating seldom have much capacity for enjoyment or usefulness of any sort. Under ordinary circumstances it is by no means a purely bodily pleasure. We do not eat alone, but in families, or sets of friends and comrades; and the table is the best centre of friendships and of the domestic affections. When, therefore, a workingman says that he has worked all his life to procure a subsistence for himself and his family,...