The Century: 1898, כרך 57Century Company, 1899 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 100
עמוד 74
... whole career had been conspicuous for official conscience . On the night of October 8 , the squadron was at the Southern drill - ground awaiting the arrival of the Brooklyn , which had gone to Hampton Roads for minor repairs . It was ...
... whole career had been conspicuous for official conscience . On the night of October 8 , the squadron was at the Southern drill - ground awaiting the arrival of the Brooklyn , which had gone to Hampton Roads for minor repairs . It was ...
עמוד 75
... whole , bearing a silken banner emblazoned with the legend : " This little pig went to market . " My guests were courteous enough to make me believe that the pig was acceptable . My next subter- fuge was to have been a possum . I had ...
... whole , bearing a silken banner emblazoned with the legend : " This little pig went to market . " My guests were courteous enough to make me believe that the pig was acceptable . My next subter- fuge was to have been a possum . I had ...
עמוד 79
... whole visit I was kept fully informed as to the state of affairs at Havana . The riot that occurred about that time in the streets , in which cer- tain newspaper offices were the chief object of attack , most naturally led us to fear ...
... whole visit I was kept fully informed as to the state of affairs at Havana . The riot that occurred about that time in the streets , in which cer- tain newspaper offices were the chief object of attack , most naturally led us to fear ...
עמוד 132
... whole- an evidence of the skill and faithfulness of its commander - in - chief , and , back of that , of the whole navy itself . For every man , and every gun's crew , and every division , and every ship , and every fleet , is simply ...
... whole- an evidence of the skill and faithfulness of its commander - in - chief , and , back of that , of the whole navy itself . For every man , and every gun's crew , and every division , and every ship , and every fleet , is simply ...
עמוד 145
... whole arrangement is artificial , and the majority represents no definite opinions either in the Córtes or the country , unless we understand by a definite opinion the deter- mination to have no opinions at all . The sup- porters of ...
... whole arrangement is artificial , and the majority represents no definite opinions either in the Córtes or the country , unless we understand by a definite opinion the deter- mination to have no opinions at all . The sup- porters of ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 138 - Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
עמוד 505 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
עמוד 397 - ... that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
עמוד 405 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
עמוד 514 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
עמוד 399 - ... the best school of philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in the province; for our queries, which were read the week preceding their discussion, put us upon reading with attention...
עמוד 396 - I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
עמוד 397 - ... which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
עמוד 515 - Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit of meriting such goodness.
עמוד 396 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read ) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too...