An Illustrated Sketch Book of Riley County, Kansas, the "Blue Ribbon County"

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The Nationalist, 1881 - 140 σελίδες
 

Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων

Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις

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Σελίδα 61 - The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race.
Σελίδα 8 - The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors shall be forever prohibited in this State, except for medical, scientific and mechanical purposes.
Σελίδα 71 - Although then forty years of age, he was one of the first to respond to the call for officers made out here.
Σελίδα 42 - Upon completion of this campaign, he served as assistantsupcrintendent of the canvass and supph' department at Philadelphia and edited a paper called the Sanitary Commission Bulletin. At the close of the war he was transferred to the historical bureau of the commission at Washington, remaining there one year, collecting data and writing a portion of the history of the commission. In 1866 he was appointed statistician of the Citizens...
Σελίδα 45 - NewYork, addressed a letter to him, requesting him to allow his name to be used as a candidate for governor, with a view to " heal the unhappy divisions in the country.
Σελίδα 24 - to counteract the materialism of the West in politics." Commercial Boston was, of course, deeply committed to western development, and particularly to western railroads. Bostonians owned large blocks of stock in the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, and the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, as well as seats on their boards of directors. Young Boston railroad lawyers knew the region from trips out on the line. ("And we were told...
Σελίδα 37 - California system is governed by a board of regents appointed by the governor of the state.
Σελίδα 44 - ... useful to the professions instead of those that are most useful to the industrial pursuits. This state of things should be reversed, and the greatest prominence given to the subjects that are the most certain to fit the great majority for the work I hoy should and will pursue. Most young men and young women are unable to go "through
Σελίδα 44 - ... those that are most useful to the industrial pursuits. This state of things should be reversed, and the greatest prominence given to the subjects that are the most certain to fit the great majority for the work they should and will pursue. i!. Most young men and young women are unable to go "through'
Σελίδα 45 - The only way to counteract this tendency is to educate the head and the hands at the same time, so that when a young man leaves college he will be prepared to earn his living in a vocation in which he fitted himself to excel.

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