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Page 177 - Again, the bronze horse may be taken in hand, which is to be to the immortal glory and eternal honour of the prince your father of happy memory, and of the illustrious house of Sforza.
Page 16 - A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face ; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form : it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures ; it is the finest of the fine arts.
Page 246 - June, 1920, for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President, to be voted for at the- Presidential Election on Tuesday, November 2, 1920, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it.
Page 126 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Page 166 - Because they are insensible to the phosphorescing of words, the fragrance of words, the noisomeness of words, the tenderness or hardness, the dryness or juiciness of words — the interchange of values in the gold, the silver, the brass and the copper of words — Is that any reason why we should not try to make them hear, to make them see, to make them feel?
Page 61 - WHO can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 259 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives" that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 49 - P-6, include training equivalent to that represented by graduation with a degree from an institution of recognized standing with major work in the branch or branches of science involved in the specific position or in a closely related branch or branches; 3 years...
Page 177 - ... that the place cannot be effectually bombarded, I have other means, whereby any fortress may be destroyed, provided it be not founded on stone. (4) I have also most convenient and portable bombs, proper for throwing showers of small missiles, and with the smoke thereof causing great terror to the enemy, to his imminent loss and confusion. (5) By means of excavations made without noise, and forming tortuous and narrow ways, I have means of reaching any given . . . (point ?), even though it be...
Page 161 - Then go over it for your vocabulary. See that you use no word in a different meaning than it was used 100 years ago and will be used 100 years hence. You wish to use only the permanent words — words, too, that will be understood to carry the same meaning to English readers in every part of the world. Your vocabulary must be chosen from the permanent, solid, stable parts of the language. Then see that no sentence contains a hint of obscurity. Then go over the words you use to see if they be the...