... congressional supporters of protection managed to
have the war rates generally maintained and, in some cases, even
increased. The case is a typical example of the way in which
advantage of strategic ... upon
the accession of every new President, was aggravated in Garfield’s
case by the factional war of which his own nomination was a phase.
The factions...
... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the
farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other.
As in the parallel case of ... owned by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice
in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at th...
... to ward off the arrows of the Eskimos.
On May 20, a new start was made to the north. Matonabbee and his great company of armed Indians now
assumed the appearance of a war party, and hurried eagerly ... return by water. The northern gales drove the ice in against the
coast. Franklin and his men, dragging and carrying one of the canoes, took to the land, in...
... committees of trade and plantations, and, by the seizure of New Netherland in
1664 and the grant of the Carolinas and the Bahamas in 1663 and 1670, she completed the chain of her
possessions in America ... Island did they find a resting
place.
To the awe inspired by the covenant with God was added the terror aroused by the dread power of Satan; and...
... of
sabbatarian zeal, was fain to admit that 'Severall sorts of Busnesses was a- Going on: Sum a- Exercising, Sum
a- Hearing o' the Preaching.'
On May 5 Warren sailed into Canso. The ... though the New Englanders had enjoyed a good deal of experience in minor privateering against the
Spaniards during the last few years, as well as a certain amount of...
... who was then Governor of the State and who had obtained the abolition of
the chair of divinity at the college and the introduction of a course in law and another
in medicine. Whether the future ... those of seaboard Virginia but of America.
Many are the great men who have owed their debt to a mother's loving helpfulness
and alert understanding. Marshal...
... protect the ports, and to increase the naval armament; and Adams was placed in a
much better position to maintain neutrality than Washington had been. Fear of another
outbreak of yellow fever accelerated ... standing as the representative of the new Administration, of
his possessing Washington's confidence and acting as his adviser. Washington, then
being withou...
... stand pat. We are all growing to tolerate a kind of petty grafting that is not right, that is
un-American. I object to having a man take my hat and hang it up for me and then accept a coin. I am ... capitalized the well-known generosity of the dining and wining
public straight into the coffers of the trust."
The manager of one of the leading hotels said that l...
... same in worsted, by a maiden
aunt.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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If the man of family has an old place to keep these things in,
furnished with claw-footed chairs and black mahogany ... polished
by society and travel. But as to saying that one is every way the
equal of the other, that is another matter. The right of strict social
discrimination of...