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American Library Association., 1897
 

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Página 95 - An efficient educational museum may be described as a collection of instructive labels, each illustrated by a well-selected specimen.
Página 11 - New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo! before us gleam her camp-fires, we ourselves must Pilgrims be. Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's bloodrusted key.
Página 9 - Wherefore we arrive at the general proposition, that every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man.
Página 7 - THE two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
Página 186 - Now, thou poor god, within this hall Where the blank windows blind the wall From pedestal to pedestal, The kind of light shall on thee fall Which London takes the day to be: While school-foundations in the act Of holiday, three files compact, Shall learn to view thee as a fact Connected with that zealous tract: 'Rome, — Babylon and Nineveh.
Página 186 - Mong angels, do you think Of the precious golden link 1 clasped around your happy arm while sitting by yon brink? Or when that night of gliding dance, of laughter and guitars, Was emptied of its music, and we watched, through latticed bars, The silent midnight heaven creeping o'er us with its stars, Till the day broke, Barbara?
Página 181 - Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Página 24 - ... or to provide a building or rooms for its or their use, or to share the cost as agreed with other municipal or district bodies, or to pay for library privileges under a contract therefor. It may also acquire real or personal property...
Página 10 - My friends, in course of time, We shall be civilized! We are going to live in cities! We are going to fight in wars! We are going to eat three times a day Without the natural cause!
Página 25 - Wearing of the Green." Try it : "Take me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no ten commandments and a man can raise a thirst.

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