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...great advantage. Rumor says that he afterward went to Cambridge, and was expelled, but the fact remains that when he should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life long occupation. Acting but poorly he became a cobbler of old plays. He began and ended his life hard up. Early in his career he killed an actor in a duel and was thrown in prison. There...
Deprive this country of its railroads and you deprive it of its glories. Its civilization is gone, its prosperity is no more, and all its hopes of future greatness become but the impracticable dreams of a forgotten age. The railroads are the heartstrings of the nation. Their strong controlling influence binds together with bonds of literal steel all the diversified interests of a great people. They are therefore to be guarded with that same true patriotic devotion that we extend to all American institutions, and in such cases conservatism is the only patriotic policy...
...average age of the crew is 20 years 5 months; the average weight is 168 8 pounds. The average weight of the present Harvard crew candidates is 172.3 pounds...
...VIII. This can easily be explained by the Law of Leisure. In a time of national rest, literature, and especially poetry, flourishes much better than when a country is thrown into confusion by political disputes. "Poetry", as Wordsworth says, "is the expression of emotion recollected in tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write at all, or they wrote in a serious, controversial style, removed as far as possible from poetical sentiment. With their minds full of the important disputes going on around them, what wonder that they found...
...finch - for it is one of the finch family - is about the size of a Robin but of stouter build, with short neck. a round head and thick strong bill. The colors vary with age and sex. In immaturity the prevailing tints are yellowish brown, or bronze as it as often termed, and ash or slate gray. Mature females are of a rich yellowish bronze and ash while old males wear a rosy tint which sometimes changes to deep carmin, on head, rump and breast...