The Stenographer, Nide 13

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Stenographer Publishing Company, 1898

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Sivu 138 - United States battleship, with 260 of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana, and cannot longer be endured, as has been set forth by the President of the United States in his message to Congress of April nth, 1898, upon which the action of Congress was invited ; therefore
Sivu 42 - A great writer (not very long departed from us) has borne witness at once to the pleasantness and profit of this study : " In a language," he says, " like ours, where so many words are derived from other languages, there are few modes of instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming
Sivu 280 - Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations it is all over with him. Has he talents ? Has he enterprises? Has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you
Sivu 280 - think. We only open our senses, clear away as we can all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see. We have little control over our thoughts. We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their Heaven and so fully engage us that we take no thought for the morrow,
Sivu 42 - for themselves—has been like the dropping of scales from his eyes ; like the acquiring of another sense, or the introduction into a new world ; he is never able to cease wondering at the moral marvels that surround him on every side and ever reveal themselves more and more to his gaze.
Sivu 102 - and in the Liturgy) means affliction, sorrow, anguish ; but it is quite worth our while to know how it means this, and to question " tribulation " a little closer. It is derived from the Latin "tribulum," which was the threshing instrument, or harrow, whereby the Roman husbandman separated the corn from the husks ; and
Sivu 42 - bound up with the stone and rescued from that perishing which would have otherwise been theirs—so in words are beautiful thoughts and images, the imagination and the feeling of past ages, of men long since in their graves, of men whose very names have perished—these, which would so easily have perished, too, are preserved and made safe forever.
Sivu 70 - WHAT a record of great social revolutions —revolutions in nations and in the feelings of nations—the one word "frank " contains, which is used, as we all know, to express aught that is generous, straightforward and free. The Franks (I need not remind you) were a powerful German tribe, or association of tribes,
Sivu 228 - to the state | of things in which we live at the present day," and especially inapplicable to the controversy involving the boundary line between Great Britain and Venezuela. Without attempting an extended argument | in reply to these positions, it may not be amiss to suggest that the doctrine upon which we stand is strong and sound, because its enforcement is important to
Sivu 138 - borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of

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