Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans, Band 10Harold Stearns Harcourt, Brace, 1922 - 577 Seiten |
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Seite 370 - Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Seite 74 - Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled by even a consensus of present public opinion, for it is the peculiar value of a written constitution that it places in unchanging form limitations upon legislative action, and thus gives a permanence and stability to popular government which otherwise would be lacking.
Seite 164 - When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of His mildness and gentleness. There are also many things wherein we may behold His awful majesty; in the sun in his strength, in comets, in thunder, in the hovering thunder-clouds, in ragged rocks and the brows of mountains.
Seite 177 - What else is Wisdom ? What of man's endeavour Or God's high grace so lovely and so great ? To stand from fear set free, to breathe and wait ; To hold a hand uplifted over Hate ; And shall not Loveliness be loved for ever ? LEADER.
Seite 307 - The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content.
Seite 165 - Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Seite 165 - Let us not deny it up and down. Providence has a wild, rough, "- incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
Seite 7 - That one of the first objects which claimed their attention was the form and manner in which the business should be conducted ; that is to say, whether they should confine themselves to rectilinear and rectangular streets, or whether they should adopt some of those supposed improvements by circles, ovals, and stars, which certainly embellish a plan, whatever may be their effect as to convenience and utility.
Seite 418 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Seite 75 - As law embodies beliefs that have triumphed in the battle of ideas and then have translated themselves into action...
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