Essays for College EnglishJames Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick D. C. Heath & Company, 1915 - 447 halaman |
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... towns to find work . It may be that a reaction will set in , also for economic reasons . The struggle for existence may drive people back to the land . With farming made easier and more scientific and profitable , the terrible pressure ...
... towns to find work . It may be that a reaction will set in , also for economic reasons . The struggle for existence may drive people back to the land . With farming made easier and more scientific and profitable , the terrible pressure ...
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... towns and cities . It has plenty of natural ability left but it is not developed into a working leadership . The country is there- fore forced to look to other sources outside itself for initiative and organizing ability which is ...
... towns and cities . It has plenty of natural ability left but it is not developed into a working leadership . The country is there- fore forced to look to other sources outside itself for initiative and organizing ability which is ...
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... town if the mountain of civilization will not come to them . The city- ward migration , the growth of tenant farming , land specula- tion , and absentee landlordism is not only undermining the ancient authority of the country church ...
... town if the mountain of civilization will not come to them . The city- ward migration , the growth of tenant farming , land specula- tion , and absentee landlordism is not only undermining the ancient authority of the country church ...
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... town . My man he works it on half - shares . But I ain't worrying much about prices ; all I got to do is just to sit tight ! " Sitting tight- especially after moving to town - has come to be an immensely popular occupation in the Corn ...
... town . My man he works it on half - shares . But I ain't worrying much about prices ; all I got to do is just to sit tight ! " Sitting tight- especially after moving to town - has come to be an immensely popular occupation in the Corn ...
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... towns or sold their farms to speculators , until now.fifty - three per cent of the farms are run by tenants . These tenants have generally a one - year lease ; their chance of purchasing land is very small , and their interest in the ...
... towns or sold their farms to speculators , until now.fifty - three per cent of the farms are run by tenants . These tenants have generally a one - year lease ; their chance of purchasing land is very small , and their interest in the ...
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Halaman 410 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Halaman 139 - I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER WHEN I heard the learn' d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander' d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
Halaman 128 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer...
Halaman 178 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Halaman 347 - And for the generality of men there will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was "a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits...
Halaman 301 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages.
Halaman 247 - Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or Reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.
Halaman 430 - It came into him life; it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts. It came to him business; it went from him poetry. It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing.
Halaman 361 - has the key to the historical enigma which Europe has sought for centuries in vain, and the land which has no history reveals luminously the course of universal history.
Halaman 388 - Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into the waters of the New World, America has been another name for opportunity, and the people of the United States have taken their tone from the incessant expansion which has not only been open but has even been forced upon them.