Word: nessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clause pointed out by Mr. Van Ness is in these terms: 'I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr.' To endeavor to discover the meaning of this declaration, I was obliged to seek in the antecedent part of the letter for the opinion to which it referred ... I found it in these words: 'General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government...
...before a bronze bust of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton...
...another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations. Dr. Kanner insists that every cause which disturbs...
...hated her enemies more than she hated needless human slaughter. Similarly when redbaiters, more fanatical than any red, forget that they are first men, and that only second are they Liberal, Conservative, Red, Republican, or Democrat, then those immoderate haters only show the shallowness of their own humankind-ness...
What the Progressives only suggest every American knows at the bottom of his heart to be the unquestionable truth, a truth he shrinks from with all the repulsion he would have if he found the Loch Ness monster in his bed. The sentimental attachment of the American people for the Constitution is hard enough to explain here, but in the eyes of foreign nations it is simply unfathomable. No matter how much it is cursed as an obstacle in the way of modern and efficient government, any movement to alter it is met with the hottest of resentment. When...