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The nation15.10.1874
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 1874
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] use in trying; while the Hopeful (the Republicans) maintained that all was sure to come out right in the end, and that our reverses were mere flea-bites. The distinction between them seems on the surface to have had only theoretical importance; but it had in reality great practical importance. The value of a man's contribu [...]
[...] in no way blind him as to the course he ought to pursue, and would in no way diminish his energy or activity. But a financial or com mercial crisis is not merely a physical phenomenon. It does not consist merely in the loss of so much capital. It is in large part a moral phenomenon, or, in other words, is, as the name “panic” [...]
[...] discovery of the loss produce the wild excitement and con fusion of the first week or two; but this soon passes away. An active community is not prostrated by the mere loss of a certain amount of money. The war hopelessly destroyed a far larger amount of property than has been unprofitably sunk [...]
[...] out. What we wish to impress on the Southern mind is that they are senseless, because fruitless. Killing people, or maiming or threat ening people, for the mere purpose of gratifying one's hate, is worthy only of savages, and this is the only purpose that Southern tumults can now serve. Behind the negro, the carpet-bagger, and the [...]
[...] States. The original Narrative and the Additional Statements and Remarks of Bishop White will be incorporated together for the first time, and the history will be continued to the present date in a mere chronicle of facts “without the intrusion of inferences or opinions.” The appendices and the notes will be full and valuable.—The Western Union Telegraph Company [...]
[...] ally existed; Bentham, full of the belief that existing society was the pro duct of the influence of the limited classes who actually held power, and whose sinister interest opposed the general welfare, naturally felt the mere existence of an institution no argument in its favor. Hence the funda mental conservatism of Burke, and the no less fundamental anti-conserva [...]
[...] which he never saw, and which he would regret to have ascribed to him, and so on. The modern works, by Lehmann, Granet, and Tony Johannot, are mere rubbish. Of course such an exhibition is a disappointment. It can do little for the culture of students of art, it can give little satisfaction to those who [...]
[...] true propitiation was offered for the sins of the world, and then strive to rid the Church of the baneful influence of mere ecclesiasticism, mak ing it bright and cheerful with the choicest re sults of thought and culture, it will indeed con [...]
[...] torical Church in liturgy and ritual and song and Christian experience. With perhaps a too large proportion of the merely catholic element in his system in his earlier days, and too little, it may be, in the advancing years of life, the average of [...]
[...] be, in the advancing years of life, the average of his teaching and influence cannot be far from right. He may have made too much of mere ritual at one time, and in the reaction too little of sacramental grace; but few, if any, have ever [...]
The nation20.11.1873
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 20. November 1873
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] obliged to publish articles in which it showed that the Grant Re publicans were keeping on foot many ports of entry which were obsolete as regards commerce, and were merely ports of refuge for Republican political hulks, who were expected to do no other duty than draw their pay and work at primaries. Thus, in numerous [...]
[...] force, that Government has never recognized the contest as being in any sense a war-—not even a civil war; it has always alleged that its military force was merely in aid of the civil arm. In other words, it has acted upon exactly the same theory as that adopted by the United States Government in its first proclamations at the [...]
[...] munity we are describing is to conceal its own ownership and con trol under the thin disguise of a neutral ownership and flag. If the mere fact of such disguise, without enquiry into the true ownership and control, ousts the mother government of jurisdiction over the vessel on the high seas, then we [...]
[...] a great deal of qualification : “Bank officers have no right to be sharp personal competitors for public patronage, nor merely laborers for dividends on behalf of a limited consti tuency. They are in a most important sense trustees for the whole coul munity and public administrators of great interests, which forbid the least [...]
[...] the terrible depression into which he fell upon the threshold of his manhood, when all his knowledge and learning suddenly seemed vanity and emptiness, and his formulas and schemes of utilitarian beneficence to mankind mere barren and joyless tasks, is as pathetic as St. Augustine's confession of his need of loving and being loved, and far more interesting as a psychological [...]
[...] suffered so early as A.D. 161 and 162—reveal the remarkable characteristic of having “much of its interior architectural, of regular and, in some parts, perfectly preserved construction, not merely excavated in the tufa rock as [...]
[...] Cubans; it might break up the Casino Español, depose the Peninsular party from the height of their power, and ruin the slave-owners by imposing upon them the immediate ematicipation of their slaves. Mere destruction is always only too easy. The ruin of the slave-owners must needs involve at least the temporary ruin of the country; and it is this that a foreign state [...]
[...] the title, De Schweinitz), we naturally look for a good note concerning this devoted missionary and his grammar; but Mr. Field contents him self with merely recording the title of this rare and valuable work. Some of these inconsistencies are so marked that they might almost be called blunders; but perhaps it is not fair, in view of the explanatory state [...]
[...] In railroad bonds business has been fairly active, and prices are higher. The demand for the Union Pacifics has been greatest. These bonds are certainly low enough, as a speculation merely, to buy at present prices—75 for the First Mortgage 6's, 70 for the Land-grant 7's, 50 for the Incomes. The gold market has been strong and active. The premium has advanced, [...]
[...] ways, and sustain Government. The repayment of the greater portion of this loss, in the shape of insurance re covered, restores nothing. This is merely the distribu tion of so much of the loss among all the contributors to the support of the insurance companies. There are as [...]
The nation21.04.1870
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 21. April 1870
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] toned paper, cloth, bevelled edges, $1. “The great value of this book to American readers will be found in the fact that it is not merely a useful and trustworthy guide in matters of fashionable etiquette but also in those that make up the daily round o social [...]
[...] physical disquisitions on the moral, social, and political phenomena of other civilized countries by which the demand for higher duties is generally prefaced, are merely a ponderous congressional way of throw ing dust in people's eyes. There never was anything of the kind more comical than the devices by which they have been trying to reconcile [...]
[...] “Assigning his interest” for the purpose of qualifying is forbidden, for the simple reason that in the hands of a bad man the expedient may be a mere farce. There is nothing to prevent either of these judges having his stock reassigned to him the day after his judgment has added twenty per cent. to its value. The country ought to speak [...]
[...] long-protracted concentration of the powers of government in Paris has been that the brains of France are concentrated there also, and the opinions of the educated class—that is, of the men of intellect merely —have a force such as they possess in no city in the world. Moreover, opinions find expression through social life as they find it nowhere [...]
[...] is sometimes noticeable in similar productions on the other side of the Atlantic. I will not say anything about the merits of the movement, merely confessing, to avoid any unfair inferences, that I am what may be called an imperfect sympathizer. I think, that is, that we are in need of great changes in the matter discussed; but I do not think that women [...]
[...] and So-and-so, be like them, far down in “the last half; ” there was Smith, a laughing-stock for his stupidity and toadyism, who was in “the first twenty” instead of the last, by dint of mere indefatigableness in going to prayers and recitations; there was the other Smith, whose good morals, as manifested by careful attendance at chapel and at recitations, [...]
[...] Lowell is anything but an exception to the rule. He will hardly be severe on Shakespearean commentators; apparently he is of opinion that there has been no man, born before or since 1616, who did not, by the mere act of birth, put himself into the ranks of commentators on Shakespeare—all life in all time seeming to him reflected in that all-comprehending brain, [...]
[...] sidered an end in herself, not simply a means consecrated to parentage. She rules with delegated power, as prime minister of her husband the king, from whom she receives not merely her temporal law but also her spiritual guidance. “To hear him (St. Paul), one might suppose that the husband is a necessary mediator between woman and Christ, as Christ is [...]
[...] clothed, however, by the tender glow of his imaginative language. His imagination is indeed something worthy of the name. A powerful and vivid gift—independent of the mere flowers of fancy and the charm of mel lifluous words—it rises to the keen perception of new and striking rela tions, and presents them glowing with the fire of passion, for they are the [...]
[...] fathers and mothers of grown-up children, with a fondness for music, but with little or no education in it. Classical music is Greek to them; ope ratic music, mere “vocal gymnastics;” and most of the sc-called “brilliant” private piano-playing, ear-splitting performances. What they want is pure melody, with as little intrusion even of accompaniment as possible. But, sim [...]
The nation04.12.1873
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 04. Dezember 1873
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] It is opposed to Injustice and Spoliation, and, though Repub lican in its affinities, it condemns all corrupt party combinations which sacrifice principle to mere success. The EVENING POST is equal to any other journal as a newspaper, and is complete in its Political, its Literary, its Scien [...]
[...] openly proclaimed. Under the present constitution, legislative cor ruption had become notorious; the law-making power had for years been a mere instrument of advantage in the hands of private per sons and corporations. Upon this foundation is built, not the su premacy of the Republican party, but the domination of the men [...]
[...] conception of the logical position of the convention, and of the nature of the process by which a State constitution is framed and adopted, is not a mere abstraction; its practical importance equals if not excels its scientific interest; and it alone furnishes an answer to the specific questions which we have just proposed. [...]
[...] agents chosen for that specific object, but reserving to themselves the final and absolute voice in the act of adoption. It is a mistake, in ana lyzing this perfected system, to regard the convention as a mere com mittee employed to prepare a scheme of government and submit the same to the legislature. Its report is to the people, who are its only [...]
[...] together with the line, a vertical bar to mark the separation still more clearly. “On the whole, therefore,” says Mr. Glaisher, “it appears that both Napier and Briggs saw that a mere separation to distinguish integers from decimals was quite sufficient, without any exponential marks being attached to the latter; but that Napier used a simple point for the purpose, while Briggs [...]
[...] was quite sufficient, without any exponential marks being attached to the latter; but that Napier used a simple point for the purpose, while Briggs employed a bent or curved line, for which in print he substituted merely a horizontal bar subscript to the decimals.” It is further pointed out, as “not a little remarkable, that the first separator used (or, more strictly, one of the [...]
[...] Nothing is more remarkable in the whole of the biography than the notes of Grote's elaborate and systematic studies when quite a young man and occu pied in business. The following record of the reading of a day is a mere example of the continuous employment of Grote's time : “Rose at 9; breakfasted and continued my thoughts of the evening pre [...]
[...] matter which ought fully to be considered in order to attain a full under standing both of his literary and public activity. Grote was, it is true, a student, but mere study, or the mere acquisition of knowledge, was never the aim of his life. He remained, from the time, at any rate, of his acquaint ance with James Mill to the day of his death, a zealous Benthamite, anxious [...]
[...] can be avoided, and the very slight risk seems to me far preferable to the cer tain suffering.” What a sermon on courage ' But Gerty's parents, “unwill ing to use mere authority,” and having in vain exhausted their reasoning on her, offered her a pony if she would consent to have her tooth out ! There is nothing, then, between “mere authority" and outrageous bribery! [...]
[...] It seems to us that the method of dealing with children adopted by many of their modern entertainers in fictitious literature is wholly erroneous. Children do not desire, and ought not to be furnished, merely realistic pictures of them selves. Sensible parents do not describe their children to their faces, nor repeat in their presence their funny speeches or amusing little naughtinesses. Books [...]
The nation17.06.1875
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 17. Juni 1875
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] 000, more or less, of five-twenties to be returned from Europe, in response to the “call” on account of the Sinking Fund, are going rapidly into the Treasury for payment; and, as merely nominal amounts of other securities are sent abroad to replace them, it seems likely that our exports of gold may be augmented by nearly that [...]
[...] when he was Chief-Justice of the State Supreme Court, in which he furnishes a totally different account of the law. In the latter he says railroad companies are “mere private corporations, voluntarily organized for pecuniary profits,” whose ultimate business is “that of a mere common carrier.” He added: “If the legislature could [...]
[...] able passage: “It is to be remembered also that railway corporations are not organized for the purpose of developing the material prosperity of the State. This is a mere incident of the business they prosecute. 13ut they are organized solely to make money for their stockholders. The Legislature has no more power over their property or rights [...]
[...] Th; way in which most good beyond the stimulation of mere emo tion is to be got out of the contemplation of great historic events, is not so much by wondering over the consequences which have [...]
[...] But such a physiological character is more likely to be the direct common consequence of similar conditions, exercises, and modes of life, and of their inherited effects, than of the mere drifting of morphological variation on one hand, or the survival of characters from the advantages of them in the strug gle for existence. The human struggle usually depends, or has come to de [...]
[...] And of Buckle's : “That if, for example, our wrists, instead of ending with hands, and flexible fingers, had merely ended like a horse's foot, we should have always remained as wanderers on the face of the earth, ignorant of every art, en tirely defenceless, and having no other concern but to avoid the attacks of [...]
[...] paragraph (p. 49) to mine. Buckle's was intended as a most exhaustive summary of all that was done for science by the writers referred to ; mine was merely a qualifying paragraph thrown in to prepare the way for the political discussion that follows. That every “fact and name,” therefore, contained in mine should be found in Buckle is certainly no marvel. They [...]
[...] chiefly on account of a modest shrinking from any candidacy for honors, amounting almost to an aversion from them, and an indifference to an un critical or merely popular reputation. Immediately upon graduating from Shelby College, Kentucky, in 1845, he was appointed Professor of Mathe matics and Astronomy in that College, where he remained until 1852, [...]
[...] “personal fame and glory.” No man would sooner than Sherman claim for our officers and soldiers of all classes the merit of fighting for the noble cause of the Union from purest devotion to the country. The mere poli tician on the one hand, and the mere soldier of fortune on the other, would be despised by him as by us; and it is unfortunate that careless writing [...]
[...] since 1832, attending the dinner this year should pay the sum of onc dollar for histicket. The Association will understand that this proposition is merely experimental, and is subject to its revision and determination. If the Alumni should bear the whole cost of the dinner, a [...]
The nation13.12.1877
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 1877
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] It is not superficial. On the contrary, I know of no system that calls up more mental activity in both teacher and pupil. There is nothing mechanical or merely formal in it; It lends itself to the highest teaching. Even the grammatical knowledge imparted by this method is broader than is given by any other. [...]
[...] pended. Unless there be some practical question at issue between the opposing parties, the party out of power has a great advantage merely because its members have nothing to quarrel about. Conse quently, the present state of things, in which the two parties have pretty much the same platform, and each is afraid to take any de [...]
[...] Turkey to submit to the programme of the Conference. That the mere threat of such application would have been sufficient to bring the Turks to terms no one doubts. All of the Powers except Russia refused to resort to it, simply on grounds of expediency. Russia [...]
[...] The repulses at Plevna and in Asia were, however glorious for a Power of which people had such a mean opinion as they had of Turkey, mere flea-bites to a Power whose resources were undeniably so great as those of Russia. They acted merely as an irritant, and lured the Turks into a false confidence which [...]
[...] rience will appreciate. The principal difficulty with us in Massachusetts lies in the fact that the Constitution withholds the right of suffrage from “paupers” merely, without limitation or qualification. No judicial in terpretation can be necessary to teach a person of ordinary intelligence that a “pauper” is a person who is receiving public aid, or subsisting, [...]
[...] ld ) . . . Chaos is an infinite ocean or quagmire of universal darkness. It is not to be considered as mere empty space, but an abyss wherein are jumbled together in confusion [...]
[...] pies three columns and a half. At this rate a dictionary which might be compressed into one small volume threatens to exceed all reasonable limits. The ordinary reader, who consults his dictionary for mere lexical purposes, does not need such etymologies, and the professed philologist can either work them out for himself or find them in other more standard [...]
[...] every time by the boast of excessive delicacy and concentration of work manship. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts continually suffers from this want of elbow-room, and its artists are sometimes compelled to study the mere corner of a great original, with a result like those pocket editions of cle gant extracts which “sample" celebrated authors by their episodes and [...]
[...] The painfulness of this disagreement between doctors can hardly be allayed by the physical slightness of the bodies in dispute, unkindly alluded to by the last-quoted critic as “mere visiting-cards.” Of our | own artist Whistler L’Art acknowledges the “remarkable talent,” but considers that at the Grosvenor Gallery it was not favorably represented. [...]
[...] This “Dictionary of Americanisms' will rank ºf hº most im portant of the contributions which the scholarship of the age has made to this department of literature. It is no mere curious collec tion of odd and outlandish words, but an invaluable aid in the study of the English language. Many of its definitions are little social [...]
The nation20.10.1870
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 1870
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] tional law gives to a state or people who have been wrongfully dis possessed of their territory no such remedy, and no remedy at all; for it is a mere perversion of terms to call an appeal to arms a juridical remedy, where the dispute must be decided without reference to right and justice, and simply by superiority of physical force. We cannot [...]
[...] In every system of municipal law a definite, fixed limit is assigned, and is essential; otherwise, every private prescriptive right would be a mere question of fact, depending entirely upon the varying views of the tribunals which decide such issues. A rule of the international law should be practical, capable of being followed and observed; but the [...]
[...] marked increase in the circulation of the Journal and among a new class of readers, the mere change from a quarterly to a monthly being in the nature of an approach to the general public. Professors Silliman and Dana, New Haven, are the editors and proprietors, assisted by Professors [...]
[...] up to the comprehension of a sacred dialect not, indeed, so readily intelli gible as a newspaper, but less obsolete than that of Spenser or of Shake speare, and scarcely more archaic, except in mere grammatical forms which no one thinks of expunging, than that of Bacon? No new editor revises either of these profane authors for any other purpose than that of correct [...]
[...] cates their rejection from the English text for that cause. This is thrice as many such words and forms of expression as are contained in Booker's list, and yet both catalogues omit most of the archaisms of mere inflexion. But there are professed, we cannot say judicious, Biblical scholars who go much beyond even Wright in their estimates, and, in some of the [...]
[...] the English mind and heart, and the most comprehensive as well as refined and cultivated taste. The revisors must bear in mind, too, that the Bible is not merely a law, an authority in matters of moral and spiritual concern, but that the authorized version of 1611 is the “volume paramount” of our literature, and, as such, the most important of all existing instrumentali [...]
[...] tiently and systematically. The work is more historical than exegetical, and the scraps of history may be called good—about as good as mere scraps can ever be made. The historical statements relate to France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, and the United States, a larger space being given to the United [...]
[...] city for itself, since he made it the principal theatre of his mercantile career. But New York, when he came to it, had already begun to be the mere business camping-ground which it is now in so eminent a degree, and, except the opportunity of making and charitably disbursing money, he owed nothing whatever to it. It hated him, and mobbed him, and [...]
[...] force in the community, an element which suddenly appeared when it had not been counted upon by friend or foe. Those Bostonians were his lineal successors who, when the South thought it had merely the Republican party to contend with, formed the Kansas Emigrant Aid Society, and lent a helping hand to John Brown in Virginia, and afterwards [...]
[...] CASH MERE BOUQUET SOAP has a novel but very delightful perfume, and is in every respect superior for [...]
The nation02.03.1876
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 02. März 1876
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] to him, are all explicable and natural on the theory that he was, in 1874 and 1875, bound to the Ring by the closest ties. It must also be remembered that, if Babcock were innocent, he was not merely an unconcerned spectator of what was going on, but, from his position, bound to do what he could to acquaint the President and [...]
[...] In estimating the effect which the result of this trial ought to have on General Babcock's future, it will not do to forget that he held two relations to the public service. He is not merely the President's secretary, but is an officer of the army besides. The army has always been above all other professions a school of honor, [...]
[...] were obliged not to give to the Upper House the same origin as to the Lower House—that one chamber was enough for the representation of mere numbers, of the passing and fleeting passions of the day. They dared not give a distinct representation to the Departments, which were the artificial creation of the French Convention, though the Departments have [...]
[...] According to the present constitution, there is now a double responsi bility—the responsibility of the President, of the chief of the Executive, and the responsibility of the ministers. The ministers are not merely the clerks of the President. Hitherto they have been chosen in the Chamber, and have represented the majority of the day. The time may come when [...]
[...] —The death of Horace Bushnell, which occurred on Feb. 17, is an event in the intellectual, and not merely in the theological, world. For more than twenty years he was an invalid, disabled from professional labor, and compelled to desist from exciting toil : but in this discouraging con [...]
[...] Müllerºs theories. This child created several words for its own use. The sound ham was uttered by it at fourteen months. “For some weeks I took it for mere babbling, but at last I saw that it invariably occurred when the child was fed. The child now is sure to utter it when hungry or thirsty. . . . . If we listen attentively and try to re [...]
[...] are very different from it in quality and association. Mr. Ticknor was the most marked type of the American man of letters and society of the first half of this century, as distinguished from the mere scholar or author. He com bined traits not often found so happily mingled ; his strong social tastes and his brilliant social gifts did not interfere with the steadiness of his [...]
[...] and simple but remarkable character. The book, as we have said, is unique in our literature, and we could wish that when another edition is called for, some parts of merely local and temporary interest might be omitted, in order to extend its circulation, and thus to increase the influ ence of a life so honestly devoted to intellectual ends, of a character so ex [...]
[...] easy to see the connection or even the drift. The chapter on the “Object of Government,” to which we turned as a sort of test of the writer's aim, merely tells us that most old, and especially theological, definitions of gov ernment are incorrect ; that “adequacy to the purpose in hand and con sistency with the permanent welfare of society are the true measures by [...]
[...] This Mr. Quincy thinks would reduce the caucus to a mere debating-club, [...]
The nation25.05.1876
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 25. Mai 1876
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] weeks must be above the average of works of fiction, intel lectually and morally, as well as on the ground of literary qualities. . . The book is one of genuine merit, merely as a literary production ; but above and beyond that, is an exposé of what in American society of the present is an [...]
[...] Every sentence she writes tells its tale of patient care, and of the enthusiasm for an ideal that rejects first and second thoughts as mere playing on the threshold of art; still she wears her crown by divine right of genius, and if she accepts the too often forgotten duties of genius, all the more honor [...]
[...] party.” Rehm swears that all his share went in this way, as he was “in politics all the year round,” and did not want money merely when an election was coming off. The connection revealed by such testimony as this and that in St. Louis between politics and frauds on the revenue is so glaring that the Republican papers [...]
[...] If this is a correct statement of the position towards each other of the parties to an extradition treaty—and we have yet to see its correctness questioned—it is of course mere trifling to say that all Mr. Fish has to do is to show that Winslow bad committed forgery in order to be able to accuse Lord Derby of bad faith. [...]
[...] not be regarded even as much as now in the light of a mere prescriber of drugs,” but rather, “in a higher point of view, as one on whose judgment people will be content to rely in the interdiction as well as in the prescrib [...]
[...] but there never was a writer whose style was more completely the natural expression of his mode of thought. Knowledge of the past and precocious literary skill might have produced a mere book-worm who could pour forth in good language the stores of his erudition. Something much more than this is needed for a great historian. The rarest and noblest feature [...]
[...] a later period ; and Mr. Cox stops a generation earlier than he—for the two brief chapters, twenty-three pages in all, which embrace the centuries from the death of Alexander to the present time are a mere mockery. Especially in view of Mr. Freeman's eloquent vindication of the neglected annals of the Achaean League, the book seems very incomplete. In everything else [...]
[...] they do come in, in direct connection with political events, they are very well treated. The chapter upon Socrates, for example, who was not merely a philosopher, but whose death was an event of moment in history, is a long and very good one. Demosthenes, on the other hand, has some just [...]
[...] Brahman cannot go to England to bear witness in court with out being degraded afterwards by excommunication ; such an one was seriously persecuted for merely receiving back into his family a son who had visited England. The Hin doos accept English sway, and own it as just and good, yet [...]
[...] “A most useful little volume. . . . . No space is wasted in mere words, but everything in the book, including many handsome illustrations, is explicit and to the purpose."— A. J. Even i ng Pºst. [...]
The nation14.12.1876
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 1876
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] the Supreme Court of the State delivered a judgment recognizing Wallace as the legal Speaker, and his sixty-three fºllowers as the legal House, and declaring Mackey and his followers mere inter lopers. On the seventh Mr. Chamberlain was, however, sworn in as Governor before the Mackey House and the Senate by a judge of [...]
[...] very much that this, or the other “count” which gives Mr. Iſayes the same number of votes, could be considered a settlement of the Presidential contest; but instead of settling anything it has merely introduced new complications. The Democratic theory is that the Governor of Oregon had no choice but to issue his certificate to [...]
[...] to be defeated ; nor, if successful, can Tilden afford to take office on such a vote. No man can afford to take the Presidency on any quirk or quibble, or in virtue of any merely technical rule. So that the law of the Cronia affair is really of but slight practical impor tance. [...]
[...] over the count and a demand for further enquiry, and cotomittees would be despatched to make reports which would settle nothing, and merely furnish materials for partisan articles in the newspapers and inflame the passions of the politicians. The local quarrels and intrigues in all the States would be transferred to Washington, and [...]
[...] have been the inevitable results. It may be formulated in the ſol lowing propositions: Although the United States is a nation and not a mere federation, and although its Constitution creates a nº tional Government and is not a mere federal league, yet that Government assumes and is based upon the States as organic So [...]
[...] dangers, and the duplex responsibilities of which so many of our great social, political, and cqonomical problems now consist, and this readiness c unnot be acquired by mere familiarity with principles. It needs prac. tice, and practice means a constant and easy acquaintance with, at all [...]
[...] that it was running a race with the Supreme Court, and adjourned for the purpose of avoiding notice. To say, therefore, that it had no actual notice is a mere quibble. We do not know that there is any conflict between Mr. Stone's other statements and our own.— Ed. NATION.] [...]
[...] rapidly: a disciplined army corps could be marched into a theatre, scated, and matched out again in half the time which a frightened crowd of equal numbers would occupy merely in coming out. Since, however, our ſheetres [...]
[...] prove design, or that complicated results produced by simple means may have been planned as fully as if caused by direct volition. This is true, but it is a mere negation. The positive force of the design argument fails because the complicated ends may not have been foreseen, and the only intelligence logically required is the very small amount involved in the [...]
[...] intelligence logically required is the very small amount involved in the arrangement of the simple means—that is, in giving to matter a few pro perties (possibly reducible to the mere power of direct and vibratory nic tion), and to organized matter the power of reproduction. In short, the argument turned on the complexity, and that is now otherwise tic [...]
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