Littell's Living Age, Volume 337Littell, Son and Company, 1930 |
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Page 191 - SYMPOSIUM, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, SYMPOSIUM...
Page 104 - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 574 - ... Epictetus we should look on as insanity in an acquaintance. Or, perhaps, not in an acquaintance, but at least in a near relation. I am sure that if I became as indifferent to money and comfort and all external things as Epictetus, and reasoned in his fashion with a happy smile about property and thieves, my relations would become more perturbed than if I became a successful company promoter with the most materialistic philosophy conceivable. Think, for example, of the reasoning of Epictetus over...
Page 379 - The shadow drifted apart leaving the shadowless soul — A high, winged, glittering, airy creature of the sky. What had we known of it but a fugitive flash of wing. We had been drowned in our own shadows, you and I. Our love was breathed upon phantom lips; shade wrought with shade. Oh, beloved, it was not I, but the shadow, who cried In bitterness, who stabbed. Oh, world, they were shadows too, Who bound their gods to the cross, and those who were crucified.
Page 703 - In my judgment war is now in process of being abolished chiefly by this relentless advance of science, its most powerful enemy. It has existed in spite of religion, and in spite of philosophy, and in spite of social ethics, and in spite of humanitarianism and the Golden Rule, since the days of the caveman because, in accordance with the evolutionary philosophy of modern science, and simply because, it has had survival value. It will disappear like the dinosaur when, and only when, the conditions...
Page 355 - I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above, entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love : the love that asks no question, the love that stands the test, that lays upon the altar the dearest and the best ; the love that never falters, the love that pays the price, the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
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Page 703 - LIVING AGE. in 1844, Mr. Littell said: ' The steamship has brought Europe. Asia, and Africa into our neighborhood; and will greatly multiply our connections, as Merchants, Travelers, and Politicians, with all parts of the world: so th'tt much more than ever, it now becomes every intelligent American to be informed of the condition a ltd changes of foreign countries.
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