The World's Work, Volumen18Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909 A history of our time. |
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Página 12133 - ere's to you, Fuzzy- Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin...
Página 11872 - The conservation of national resources is a subject to which the present administration has given especial attention. The necessity for a comprehensive and systematic improvement of our waterways, the preservation of our soil and of our forests, the securing from private appropriation the power in navigable streams, the retention of the undisposed of coal lands of the government from alienation, all will properly claim from the next administration earnest attention and appropriate legislation.
Página 12030 - I know that, and therefore I should not waste time in trying." " Would you give up, then? " He smiled. There was no "giving up" in that smile of his. " I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd begin and break it, twig by twig, till I forced my way through, and got out safe at the other side.
Página 11863 - ... the greatest reform which could be effected would be expedition and thoroughness in the enforcement of public and private rights in our courts. I do not mean to say that the judges of the courts are lacking either in honesty, industry, or knowledge of the law ; but I do mean to say that the machinery of which they are a part is so cumbersome and...
Página 12144 - America rose regenerate and free, let us believe with an abiding faith that to them Union will seem as dear, and Liberty as sweet, and Progress as glorious as they were to our fathers, and are to you and me, and that the Institutions which have made us happy, preserved by the virtue of our children, shall bless the remotest generations of the time to come.
Página 12155 - Liberia is an asylum from the most grinding oppression. In coming to the shores of Africa, we indulged the...
Página 11641 - Each grant should be conditioned upon prompt development, continued beneficial use, and the payment of proper compensation to the public for the rights enjoyed ; and should be for a definite period only. Such period should be no longer than is required for reasonable safety of investment. The public authority should retain the right to readjust at stated periods the compensation to the public and to regulate the rates charged, to the end that undue profit or extortion may be prevented.
Página 11752 - Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and intended for its use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier.
Página 11662 - A healthy mental attitude implies many elements, but they are all roughly summed up in the word "serenity." Probably no other one hygienic requirement is of greater importance than this. Moreover, the attitude of "healthymindedness" should be striven for not only in order to produce health, but as an end in itself, for which, in fact, even health itself is properly sought. In short the health of the body and the health of the mind act and react on each other.
Página 12133 - eathen but a first-class fightin' man; An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy- Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air — You big black boundin' beggar — for you broke a British square!