A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to ju...stice and to right for the conservation of its interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The language of the game is interesting. You can think of the pauses as caesuras, breaks between the lines. As a poem the game is ...composed of a number of short lines representing the pitches. The number of lines per batter form a stanza. Then there is a space. Sometimes the stanzas become breathless, rushing full paragraphs that build rapidly on each other until the poem-inning explodes. The poem lives for this sudden blossoming out of prosodic regularity. Should someone make a computer analysis of baseball prosody, I believe that they would come up with something close to the prosody of some great American lyrical epic, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, let's say, or Doc Williams's Patterson.... The game is definitely an epic ... formed of many lyrical moments dependent on silences for their effectiveness. An unfolding story punctuated by brief emotional swellings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and... which are vital.... I would call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cole's Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted ...over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My tendency to nervousness in my younger days, in view of the fact of a number of near relatives on both my father's and mother's ...side of the house having become insane, gave some serious uneasiness. I made up my mind to overcome it.... In the cross-examination of witnesses before a crowded court-house ... I soon found I could control myself even in the worst of testing cases. Finally, in battle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regr...ettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not u...nderstand, human nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
WHEREAS: It is our conviction that had the women of the countries of Europe, with their deep instinct of motherhood and desire for... the conservation of life, possessed a voice in the councils of their governments, this deplorable war would never have been allowed to occur; therefore, be it RESOLVED: That the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in convention assembled, does hereby affirm the obligation of peace and good will toward all men and further demands the inclusion of women in the government of nations of which they are a part, whose citizens they bear and rear and whose peace their political liberty would help to secure and maintain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, as far as they may be within the jurisdiction... of the Federal Government, including the more important work of saving and restoring our forests and the great improvement of waterways, are all proper government functions which must involve large expenditure if properly performed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »