The Coast, 16-18. kötet

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Coast Publishing Company, 1908
 

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55. oldal - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
210. oldal - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
429. oldal - A wise old owl sat on an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
193. oldal - Past youth where shoreward shallows are, Through age that drives on toward the red Vast void of sunset hailed from far, To the equal waters of the dead ; Save his own soul he hath no star, And sinks, except his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide.
293. oldal - There seems to be no more pronounced mark of the decadence of a people and its literature than a servile and rigid subserviency to rule. It can only make for ossification, for anchylosis, for petrification, all the milestones on the road of death. In every age of democratic plebeianism...
277. oldal - The evangelist was entreating his hearers to flee from the wrath to come. "I warn you," he said, "there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
319. oldal - THE PERFECT MAN. There Is a man who never drinks, Nor smokes, nor chews, nor swears. Who never gambles, never flirts, And shuns all sinful snares. He's paralyzed. There is a man who never does Anything that is not right. His wife can tell Just where he is At morning, noon and night. He's dead.
212. oldal - I don't think that the territory has a population of sufficient number or sufficient stability and permanence of residence to warrant the delegation to a locally elected legislature of such authority. Many of the places in Alaska, where there is a considerable population, are nothing but mining camps, with all the migratory and temporary features of such settlements. More than that, the population is so small, as compared with the vast expanse of the territory, that it would be unwise to provide...
61. oldal - Well, what do you think of it by this time?" asked the preacher. "Well, sah," replied the colored man, "Ah prayed an' prayed, an" de good Lawd he says to me, ' 'Rastus, Ah wouldn't bodder mah haid about dat no mo.
80. oldal - He estimates that consumption kills 138,000 every year in the United States. This is equal to the deaths from typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, appendicitis, meningitis, diabetes, smallpox, and cancer all put together. Then again, it generally takes three years to die, during which time the poor victim can earn little or nothing. Finally, the scourge picks out its victims when they are young men and young women, at the very time they are beginning to earn money. The minimum cost of such items...

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