The International Interpreter: The World-wide News Weekly, Volume 3

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Frederick Dixon
Interpreter Pub. Corporation, 1924
 

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Page 68 - Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good.
Page 123 - Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools : with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him ; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools : without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.
Page 216 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 280 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 68 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish, that every member of the convention, who may still have objections, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Page 33 - God give us peace ! — not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh, and brow with purpose knit ! And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep, Her ports all up, her battle-lanterns lit, And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap...
Page 88 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rain-bow in the sky ! • So was it, when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So let it be, when I grow old, Or let me die. • The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.* WORDSWORTH.
Page 47 - Board, which is composed of the Secretary of State of the United States and the diplomatic representatives in Washington of the other American Governments.
Page 56 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas — Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides : Fair these broad meads, &c.
Page 148 - Should there be a National Gallery (which is talked of) there will be an end of the art in poor old England, and she will become, in all that relates to painting, as much a nonentity as every other country that has one. The reason is plain; the manufacturers of pictures are then made the criterions of perfection, instead of nature.

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