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Page 132 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Page 218 - a land with a unity despite its diversity, with a people having common joys and common sorrows, and, above all, as to the white folk a people with a common resolve indomitably maintained — that it shall be and remain a white man's country.
Page 157 - During 1914-24 he was an agronomist in the Bureau of Plant Industry in the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 197 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 19 - The Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the US Department of Agriculture has made...
Page 193 - Indeed, Dr. WH Welch, in speaking on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of Yale College says, "It is customary to speak of Jared Eliot as 'the father of regular medical practice in Connecticut,' and when one considers the number of physicians who were trained under him, and that among these were such leaders of the profession and successful teachers of medicine as his son-in-law and successor in practice, Benjamin Gale, and Dr. Jared Potter, the title seems justly conferred.
Page 156 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 193 - He was, however, in his life time, more known to the public as a physician, and was very eminent for his judgment and skill in the management of chronic complaints. In these he appears to have been more extensively consulted than any other physician 'in New England, frequently visiting every county of Connecticut, and being often called to Boston and Newport.
Page 17 - ... rigged" sales, a suspicion no doubt frequently justified. In 1785 James Madison wrote RH Lee, complaining that both private planters and native merchants had "received accounts of sales this season which carry the most visible and shameful frauds in every...
Page 218 - ... the cardinal test of a Southerner and the central theme of Southern history.