Human Nature and RailroadsE.S. Nash & Company, 1915 - 123 pages |
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Page 26 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 46 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked : that there should be no schism in the body ; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 39 - Mother, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb But don't go near the water.
Page 46 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
Page 40 - ... corporation, for any service rendered or to be rendered, a greater or less compensation or sum than it shall demand, charge, collect, or receive from any other person or corporation for a like and contemporaneous service under substantially similar circumstances and conditions. Provided, however, That where, as the result of a bona fide mistake or error of a common carrier...
Page 67 - When the gargle came from the throat, some phlegm followed, and he attempted to cough, which the doctor encouraged him to do as much as possible; but he could only attempt it. About eleven o'clock, Dr. Craik requested that Dr. Dick might be sent for, as he feared Dr. Brown would not come in time. A messenger was accordingly despatched for him. About this time the General was bled again. No effect, however, was produced by it, and he remained in the same state, unable to swallow any thing.
Page 57 - From forge and farm and mine and bench, Deck, altar, outpost lone — Mill, school, battalion, counter, trench. Rail, senate, sheepfold, throne — Creation's cry goes up on high From age to cheated age: "Send us the men who do the work "For which they draw the wage!
Page 31 - You look for the corollary that official regulation is not to be trusted ; when, instead, a propos of a shipwreck, you read an urgent demand for government-inspectors to see that ships always have their boats ready for launching. Thus, while every day chronicles a failure, there every day reappears the belief that it needs but an Act of Parliament and a staff of officers, to effect any end desired. Nowhere is the perennial faith of mankind better seen.
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Page 67 - Craik came in soon after, and, upon examining the General, he put a blister of cantharides on the throat, took some more blood from him, and had a gargle of vinegar and...