The World's Work, Svazek 19

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Doubleday, Page, 1910

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Strana 12470 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Strana 12226 - Land without population is a wilderness and population without land is a mob. The United States has many social, political, and economic questions — some old, some new— to settle in the near future; but none so fundamental as the true relation of the land to the national life. The first act in the progress of any civilization is to provide homes for those who desire to sit under their own vine and fig tree.
Strana 12197 - ... next preceding, and whether he has previously voted, and, if so, the state, county, and precinct in which he voted last; and, Third.
Strana 12275 - The government of a people by itself has a meaning and a reality ; but such a thing as government of one people by another does not and cannot exist.
Strana 12226 - ... political, and economic questions, some old, some new, to settle in the near future; but none so fundamental as the true relation of the land to the national life. The first act in the progress of any civilization is to provide homes for those who desire to sit under their own vine and fig-tree. A prosperous agricultural interest is to a nation what good digestion is to a man.
Strana 12769 - Sheep, one year old or over, $1.50 per head; less than one year old, 75 cents per head. All other live animals not specially provided for in this section, 20 per centum ad valorem.
Strana 12773 - Tell our agents," he wrote to one of his staff in 1879, "that we have a proposition on foot to connect the different cities for the purpose of personal communication, and in other ways to organize a grand telephonic systern."13 Yet he daringly forecast: "We may confidently expect that Mr.
Strana 12228 - But trade and manufactures, however profitable, must yield to the cultivation of lands in usefulness and dignity. Commerce, however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother ; she...
Strana 12277 - ... carried out: (a) All examinations held in England only should be simultaneously held in India and in England and that all higher appointments which are made in India should be by competitive examination only.
Strana 12769 - Meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

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