Word: humanation
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...cannot read him now, said Mr. Copeland, except for the lives of the poets, the vanity of human wishes, and a very few other things; but we love to read about him-indeed, we can never read enough-and we see and remember him as we remember only two other men in the long line of English writers, Swift and Carlyle...
...miracle, and it was to contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back to the early ages. How was it possible that such a result should be attained? Why should so large an amount of labor have been put into this form of wealth, when the conditions of human existence were so strait and painful? Why, when bread was scarce almost to the point of famine, should men have dug for gold...
Precisely similar were the terms on which millions of men labored through centuries to ple up the Persian treasures. It would be mockery to apply the word "industry" to the gold mining of the early ages. Every ounce of gold represented a human life...
...leading feature in the Crawford Shoe-it fits the average human foot as good as a shoe made to order...
...leading feature in the Crawford Shoe-it fits the average human foot as good as a shoe made to order...