Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12)
- Author: Holinshed Raphael -
- Genre: England
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electric railway transportation
- Author: henry william blake
- Genre: United States
Originally published in 1917. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
vindication of the policy of the administration
- Author: james henry lane
- Genre: United States
Originally published in 1864. 16 pages. This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
the awakening of the desert
- Author: julius charles birge
- Genre: United States
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Advancing Wave Of Civilization HAVE you ever carefully watched the movements or caught the earnest spirit of the immigrant who, after traveling many hundreds of miles along the difficult roads through an unbroken country to a strange land, there seeks a spot where he may build a home for his family? Many of the young men in our party were on such a mission. That we may better understand the motives which inspired them and the movement of which they became a part, a retrospective glance seems almost necessary. Having late in the thirties become the first scion of the pioneers in the country where I was born, I ought to be qualified to throw some light upon the experiences of the frontiersman, because primeval Wisconsin, as it lay untouched by civilization, and the inflow of its population as I saw it, left upon my mind vivid impressions. There was a blending of pathos and humor in the arduous lives of these builders of the nation. Without then comprehending its significance, I had observed from time to time the arrival of sturdy and intelligent home-seekers from New England and New York, transporting their household effects in country wagons along the old, but almost impassable territorial road. I wasonce led to accompany two other children, who, with their parents, were on such a pilgrimage. In their two-horse wagon were tightly packed a little furniture and a few boxes. The wagon cover had been turned that the view might be unobstructed. At one time the immigrants paused as they forded a running brook; they looked up and down the green valley; then they drove out from the road to the summit of a nearby knoll, where their horses were again rested. Here the father rose to his feet; he turned his eyes earnestly and intently now in one direction and now in...
the relation of the executive power to legislation
- Author: henry campbell black
- Genre: United States
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill EXECUTIVE INITIATIVE IN LEGISLATION; IN THE UNITED STATES Should the American people now cast overboard the political principle so jealously insisted on by their ancestors, that it is essential to the preservation of civil liberty that the executive and legislative powers of the state should be kept separate and distinct? Should we now attempt the experiment of superimposing upon the present structure of our government the chief features of the parliamentary or cabinet system as practiced in England and France, as least to the extent of formally giving to the executive officers of the nation and the states direct access to the legislative bodies, the right to frame and introduce their own bills, to claim precedence for administration measures, to support them in debate, and to expedite and secure their passage with the weight and power of the executive arm? It is very seriously proposed, and by persons whose opinions are entitled to the highest respect, that just this should be done. Even so wise and conservative a statesman as ex-Governor McCall of Massachusetts, if correctly quoted in an interview published not long since,1 thinks that "we cannot amble along in this country on the very pleasant pathway of the old theory of division of powers, 1 The New York Times, Magazine Section, July 22, 1917. so that one organ of government vetoes another and we have difficulty in getting anywhere. In a crisis like the present, when the safety of the country depends on the promptest possible action in preparation for war, a ministry responsible to an elected assembly would bring forward the measures that in its judgment are required; and while these measures would be open to debate and amendment, they would be pressed to a speedy conclusion and there would not be the da...
parisian sights and french principles seen through american spectacles
- Author: james jackson jarves
- Genre: United States
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
the human body and its connection with man illustrated by the principal organs
- Author: james john garth wilkinson
- Genre: United States
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
the home school
- Author: ada wilson trowbridge
- Genre: Jurisprudence
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II THE NECESSITY FOR TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRAINING FOR INDUSTRY AND FOR THE HOME Concerning industry On account of economic pressure, a large proportion of girls in the public schools drop out as they approach or finish the grammar school. It is plain that some sort of self-improvement should be provided for them after they have left the public schools. The problem of after-training for girls is much more difficult and complex than that for boys, since the trade or vocation which the boy has chosen determines the character of his supplementary training. In the education of the working-girl, there is a twofold demand to be met, that of giving preparation for her temporary calling, and that of fitting her to meet the requirements of her future career as a home- maker. Seven years is the average length of the period during which the female wage-earner is employed, and the period is even shorter for the more unskilled workers. After this, a girl's attention is usually given to the making of a home, and it is in this capacity, as a home-maker, that the greater part of her life will be spent. It is admitted that girls should be skilled in some trade, since their industrial efficiency has become an economic necessity: thus it is clear that their after-training must include housecraft and also knowledge to supplement a skilled trade. These are two entirely different types of training and must be carried on independently of each other, except with reference to those money-making pursuits which may be satisfactorily conducted in the home and which will receive consideration elsewhere. Girls who enter the various poorly paid juvenile employments have little prospect of future progress, and at the end of four or five years of such work are little better off than when t...
a mexican journey
- Author: emil harry blichfeldt
- Genre: Administrative Law
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill GOING THERE are now several ways of approach to Mexico; but the historic way is by Havana and Vera Cruz. It was from the governor of Cuba that Cortez received his commission to go in quest of gold and adventure in 1518; and while he was not the first Spaniard to visit the Mexican coast, nor Vera Cruz the first place that his vessels touched, yet the successful invasion of the country began with his landing there in the spring of 1519. It would take a long story to tell of all the invaders and adventurers that have made Vera Cruz their port since his time, despite the absence of any protected harbor. This lack made Cortez destroy his fleet, and was never remedied till about the beginning of the twentieth century. As for railroads, even a generation ago when the building of one from the United States was proposed, the rulers of Mexico were accustomed to forbid it, saying, "Between thestrong and the weak the desert is a necessity." It was in 1884 that railroad connection was first established. The land route, therefore, is not taken by any one wishing to reconstruct the past; and even for a present sense of the individuality of our neighbor nation we should not choose to step over the imaginary border line from a town nominally American but still in a degree Mexican, to a town nominally Mexican but already a good deal Americanized. The broad track of the ocean, not the narrow glistening rail, shall take us to the land of our pilgrimage. Leaving New York on a sleety and cruel Thursday of December or January, we slip down the East River, remaining on deck, whatever the cold, and letting the impression of our own perpendicular metropolis fix itself as strongly as it will on our departing vision. So we have said "good-bye" to the exigent Land of Now and have determined the p... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.