Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the ... Annual Session Held in ...

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Halaman 260 - This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe. He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper, and in six days brought my clothes — very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation. But my comfort was that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded.
Halaman 134 - The woman's cause is man's : they rise or sink Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free : For she that out of Lethe scales with man The shining steps of Nature, shares with man...
Halaman 103 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife ; and they shall be one flesh.
Halaman 91 - ... ends. For man is a spiritual being, and, if he is to be helped, it must be by spiritual means. As Mazzini has said: " The human soul, not the body, should be the starting-point of all our labors, since the body without the soul is only a carcass; while the soul, wherever it is found free and holy, is sure to mould for itself such a body as its wants and vocation require." Those who claim that relief must be given, even though it does destroy the character, because without it they fear that there...
Halaman 137 - It is a calumny on men to say that they are roused to heroic action by ease, hope of pleasure, recompense, — sugar- plums of any kind, in this world or the next! In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. The poor swearing soldier, hired to be shot, has his ' honour of a soldier,' different from drill-regulations and the shilling a day.
Halaman 103 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Halaman 4 - Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals.
Halaman 225 - Scripture says someplace that words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Halaman 59 - The alarming development and aggressiveness of great capitalists and corporations, unless checked, will inevitably lead to the pauperization and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses.
Halaman 419 - Almshouses, and to induce the adoption by the community at large of such measures in the organization and administration of both public and private charity...

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