Journal of Social Science: Containing the Transactions of the Americcan Association, Issues 16-20

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Leypoldt & Holt, 1882
 

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Page 70 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Page 6 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Page 77 - A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Page 20 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 8 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France her banded swarms, Back to France with countless blows, Till o'er the hills her eagles flew...
Page 156 - ... superstitions ; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in danger of accepting the main doctrines of the
Page 156 - History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions...
Page 18 - ... the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health...
Page 102 - A factory is an establishment where several workmen are collected together for the purpose of obtaining greater and cheaper conveniences for labor than they could procure individually at their homes, for producing results by their combined efforts which they could not accomplish separately, and for saving the loss of time which the carrying of an article from place to place during the several processes necessary to complete its manufacture would occasion. The principle of a factory is that each laborer,...
Page 73 - ... as the law shall direct ; and any person who shall directly or indirectly give, promise or bestow, any such rewards to be elected, shall thereby be rendered incapable to serve [for the ensuing year,] and be subject to such further punishment as a future legislature shall direct.

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