City Club Bulletin, Volume 81913 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... feel especially glad , in view of recent experiences ( laughter ) , to be called back to Boston . It is entirely appro- priate that , being one of the few speakers not clergymen , I should begin what I have to say with a text . " When ...
... feel especially glad , in view of recent experiences ( laughter ) , to be called back to Boston . It is entirely appro- priate that , being one of the few speakers not clergymen , I should begin what I have to say with a text . " When ...
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... feel that it is carried too far , the foundations are being interfered with ; sometimes we feel a little that many of our ambitious friends are holding up a candle to the sun dial to see what time of day it is . But after all the time ...
... feel that it is carried too far , the foundations are being interfered with ; sometimes we feel a little that many of our ambitious friends are holding up a candle to the sun dial to see what time of day it is . But after all the time ...
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... feel sympathy , and that was something different , out of themselves , recognizing something greater than themselves ... feeling of individuals , and , finally , the great truth that we have all grasped to - day , that we owe certain ...
... feel sympathy , and that was something different , out of themselves , recognizing something greater than themselves ... feeling of individuals , and , finally , the great truth that we have all grasped to - day , that we owe certain ...
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... feel it , you know it is there , but it is very difficult to define it . I would define it as I heard an old clergyman define the five points of religion . He said , ' You get religion when you don't want it ; when you get it you don't ...
... feel it , you know it is there , but it is very difficult to define it . I would define it as I heard an old clergyman define the five points of religion . He said , ' You get religion when you don't want it ; when you get it you don't ...
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... feeling . It scorns to stoop to lobbying or bartering away its time in petty things . It refers every question by referendum back to their bodies and they in turn to their individual members , and their action and vote is thus ...
... feeling . It scorns to stoop to lobbying or bartering away its time in petty things . It refers every question by referendum back to their bodies and they in turn to their individual members , and their action and vote is thus ...
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Page 30 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality...
Page 33 - The income and property of the Association, from whatever source derived, shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the Association as set forth in this Memorandum of Association, and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus, or otherwise howsoever, by way of profit to the persons who at any time are or have been Members of the Association...
Page 25 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 33 - If upon the winding up or dissolution of the Association there remains, after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, any property whatsoever, the same shall not...
Page 22 - Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, and a' that ; For a
Page 19 - AT the gate of the West I stand, ^^ On the isle where the nations throng. We call them " scum o' the earth "; Stay, are we doing you wrong, Young fellow from Socrates' land? — You, like a Hermes so lissome and strong Fresh from the Master Praxiteles
Page 45 - The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-west for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The Sunny South too, in more colors than one, also lent a hand.
Page 45 - At all the watery margins they have been present, not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp they have been and made their tracks. Thanks to all. For...
Page 20 - polacks" — and "scum o' the earth." Ill GENOESE boy of the level brow, Lad of the lustrous, dreamy eyes Agaze at Manhattan's pinnacles now In the first, sweet shock of a hushed surprise; Within your far-rapt seer's eyes I catch the glow of the wild surmise That played on the Santa Maria's prow In that still gray dawn, Four centuries gone, When a world from the wave began to rise. Oh...
Page 34 - As to the proposal that exemption shall be given to vessels engaged in the coastwise trade, a more difficult question arises. If the trade should be so regulated as to make it certain that only bona-fide coastwise traffic which is reserved for United States vessels would be benefited by this exemption, it may be that no objection could be taken.