” Lower Bank- street has filthy sewers on its northern, eastern and western sides, and the river on the southern, so that this quarter may not inaptly be called sewer island.”‘ In the Salford epidemic, that situation in which the disease prevailed perhaps more extensively than in any other, considering the relative extent and small [...]
At Saratoga or at Bedford, the American soon grows weary, because he sees that there are twenty thousand heads of families in Philadelphia and New York, who can, as well as he, if the notion seizes them, and it actually does seize them, have the satisfaction of bringing their wives and daughters to the same [...]
the righteous, perfect, pure and faith- fix] prophet. We have written this letter at Sichem, near Gerizim, the 15th day of the sixth month, which is the 27th day of the lunar month, in the 6111th year of the creation of the world, according to the Greeks; the second from the year of rest. This [...]
As the day ends with the night for rest and reflection, and as the week theoretically ends with a day of rest, so, too, should everyone regularly take stock of self. In doing this, we look at our aspirations and fears, values and doubts, joys and sorrows, body and soul, all the way back to [...]
On ordinary occasions a village school-room would not have been a place calculated to afford much pleasure to either of the gentlemen, yet now, though the visit was by no means short, neither had wished it shorter, The calm, gentle man¬ner of Lady Marston, with her sweet look of patient suffering, contrasted, yet harmonized even [...]
“Of course you do.” Sam nodded. “You’re from a long line of seafaring men!” He lifted his voice to a bellow. “Mr. Hodges! I sent Ben packing! I’ll show this lad around and it won’t cost you a cent!”
Mr. Hodges called, “I can’t ask you to do that, Sam.”
“Who’s asking me? I’m just doing it!” [...]
” Then die!” shouted Magua, hurling his tomahawk with violence at the unresisting speaker, and gnashing his teeth with a rage that could no longer be bridled, at this sudden exhibition of firmness in the owe he believed the- weakest of the pahy. The axe cleaved the air in front of Heyward, and cutting some [...]
Therefore it is necessary that we spend time being still and exploring deep into our psyches, so that we may meet our true inner selves, our soul reality, seeing it for the first time as it really is. In doing so we must endeavor to extract the intangible reasons or lessons to be learned from [...]
Ellen Goodman and Pat O’Brien convey this idea in the tide of their book on friendship, I Know Just What You Mean. As they ended a year of living and writing together as Nieman Fellows at Harvard, they agreed that empathy—the ability’ to see, really see, what someone else is going through—was the key ingredient [...]
If one had an acre of “perfect” ears
If one had an acre of “perfect” ears, with a pen-acre plant popula-tion of 20.000 stalks (commercial growers often aim for 30,000 plants per acre, but the small-scale grower with open-pollinated corn Should be satisfied with a population of 18,000 to 20,000 plants), each plant bearing one ear [...]
