| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1891 - 326 strani
...city ; it was nearly a mile off, on the top of a hill in the brown and dusty prairie. " Why here ?" we asked. " Is it because you mean to enclose the...air of ceaseless haste and stress which pervades the West.* They remind you of the crowd which Vathek found in the hall of Eblis, each darting hither and... | |
| james bryce - 1891 - 328 strani
...city ; it was nearly a mile off, on the top of a hill in the brown and dusty prairie. " Why here? " we asked. " Is it because you mean to enclose the...years hence, when the seedlings shall have grown to forest-trees. This constant reaching forward to and grasping at the future does not so much express... | |
| John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 484 strani
...Civil Law to the University of Oxford, England, 187o. From his " American Commonwealth." Americans seem to live in the future rather than in the present;...when the seedlings shall have grown to forest trees. Time seems too brief for what they have to do, and result always to come short of their desire. One... | |
| John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 472 strani
...Civil I,aw to the University of Oxfo.d, England, 187o. From his " American Commonwealth." Americans seem to live in the future rather than in the present;...when the seedlings shall have grown to forest trees. Time seems too brief for what they have to do, and result always to come short of their desire. One... | |
| Frederic Logan Paxson - 1911 - 648 strani
...confidence of these Westerns is superb," wrote James Bryce, who was a guest on Villard's special train. "Men seem to live in the future rather than in the...when the seedlings shall have grown to forest trees." The Western demand for new States was stronger than the disposition of Congress to admit them. From... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - 1912 - 284 strani
...pp. 526-536. 6 Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier (Cambridge, 1904), ii, p. 311. [79] to work while it is called today, but that they see...when the seedlings shall have grown to forest trees. ' ' 7 From the census tables of 1880 may be extracted the condition of the five northern territories... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1912 - 286 strani
...Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier (Cambridge, 1904), II, p. 311. Wisconsin Historical Society to work while it is called today, but that they see...hence, when the seedlings shall have grown to forest trees."7 From the census tables of 1880 may be extracted the condition of the five northern territories... | |
| Frederic Logan Paxson - 1924 - 626 strani
...where there were hopes rather than inhabitants. "The confidence of these Westerns is superb," he wrote. "Men seem to live in the future rather than in the...years hence, when the seedlings shall have grown to be forest trees." The starting of a capitol at Bismarck was evidence that in Dakota the intention was... | |
| Francis Asbury Sampson, Floyd Calvin Shoemaker - 1925 - 788 strani
...corner stone of the prairie capito! at Bismarck, wrote, "The confidence of these westerns is superb. Men seem to live in the future rather than in the...merely as it is, but as it will be twenty, fifty, or a hundred years hence." But the triumphs of our morning have shrunk into the sober documents of... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1912 - 290 strani
...Financier (Cambridge, 1904), ii, p. 311. to work while it is called today, but that they see the cowrrtry- not merely as it is, but as it will be, twenty, fifty,...when the seedlings shall have grown to forest trees/' 7 From the census tables of 1880 may be extracted the condition •of the five northern territories... | |
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