Department of Science, Art and Literature--April 15, 16, 23-25, 1935U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 238 pages |
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Page 241 - To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries; 9 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; 10.
Page 29 - We may specify in respect of each of you to make an inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture, civilisation and conditions of life of the people in...
Page 248 - Russell, who presented such a splendid and comprehensive view of the orchestral music of this country. Now, to you gentlemen, naturally, with all the problems before you. which are mostly very materialistic, are not often confronted with gentlemen who do something else, who come in contact and are concerned with the creation of spiritual things. They are not talking about farms or industrialization and those material problems. They have come before you with this bill, like myself, with whatever intelligence...
Page 127 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. First of all, I would like to commend the committee for getting into this subject of skyjacking.
Page 230 - Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.8 ibid. Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.7 Hittory of Women (ed. 1624). Page 286. JOHN SELDEN.
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Page 59 - You are welcome to use the schoolhouse to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the Word of God about them. If God had designed that His intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour, by steam, He would have clearly foretold it through His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to Hell.
Page 110 - There being no objection, the address was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Mrs. Reed, members and guests of the Cosmopolitan Club, thank you for asking me to talk to you this evening about the Public Works of Art Project.
Page 28 - I know no brother, yet all men are my brothers ; I am the father of the best that is in them, and they are fathers of the best that is in me ; I am of them and they are of me. For I am the instrument of God. I am music.
Page 136 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.