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... look further back , in the last thirty years the country people have increased by more than fourteen millions . As to rate of increase , our country dwellers have increased in the last decade by eleven per cent . The whole German Empire ...
... look further back , in the last thirty years the country people have increased by more than fourteen millions . As to rate of increase , our country dwellers have increased in the last decade by eleven per cent . The whole German Empire ...
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... look back thirty years instead of ten we shall see 1102 cities become 2405 and a population of 14,772,438 grow to 42,623,383 . This is the spark of fire behind so much smoke . Rural population is growing fairly well , but cities are ...
... look back thirty years instead of ten we shall see 1102 cities become 2405 and a population of 14,772,438 grow to 42,623,383 . This is the spark of fire behind so much smoke . Rural population is growing fairly well , but cities are ...
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... look for the culture he wants in the form of religion , of education for his family , or of social intercourse and entertainment . Here he and his wife hope to spend their last days , with the farm rented or worked by some one on halves ...
... look for the culture he wants in the form of religion , of education for his family , or of social intercourse and entertainment . Here he and his wife hope to spend their last days , with the farm rented or worked by some one on halves ...
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... look worse yet for the country . The reductions in the limit to 4000 and 2500 appear to have been made with the eyes rather on the rus than on the urbs . Is a place of 2500 really a city ? The dweller in one of 100,000 will hardly think ...
... look worse yet for the country . The reductions in the limit to 4000 and 2500 appear to have been made with the eyes rather on the rus than on the urbs . Is a place of 2500 really a city ? The dweller in one of 100,000 will hardly think ...
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... he must , therefore , look beyond the tangible security and scrutinize the character of the borrower and the purpose for which he wishes to borrow . The banker who secures an economic use of the capital 42 THOMAS NIXON CARVER.
... he must , therefore , look beyond the tangible security and scrutinize the character of the borrower and the purpose for which he wishes to borrow . The banker who secures an economic use of the capital 42 THOMAS NIXON CARVER.
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Page 422 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 160 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 381 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 447 - Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.
Page 421 - Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
Page 452 - German people toward us, (who were, no doubt, as ignorant of them as we ourselves were,) but only in the selfish designs of a Government that did what it pleased and told its people nothing.
Page 421 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Page 342 - There are good books for the hour, and good ones for all time ; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for all time.
Page 448 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...
Page 449 - I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well-conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation, because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits, which will now be necessary, entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people, so far as we may, against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast...