Word: paged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made that to Snodkins' mind is really worth taking down. Slowly the note-book is placed open on the table, a pencil is drawn out, and work is begun. I watch my friend closely; he works slowly, but deliberately, and soon, raising myself a little, I see, not a page of carefully written notes, but a wonderfully life-like portrait of the "man in the box," mouth open and hand raised. It is indeed a wonderful picture! In it I read pages; it not only presents the lecturer himself, but adds as well all the magnetic power of the lecturer...
...would call attention to the communication upon another page relative to a systematized collection of newspaper clippings. The advantages of such a collection are obvious. Take, for instance, one of the topics suggested, the Negro Scare; the facts concerning it are to be found nowhere else than in the newspapers, and a collection upon that topic would be invaluable to the future historian. The same is true of reports of socialist meetings, trades-unions, co-operative societies, etc.; also of another and important class of facts,- those relating to monopolies. And even if these facts in this form were...
...said that the zest of life is gone when we know that all is fixed. Do we read a story with less interest because the last page was written long ago? Indeed, the man of clear vision, who can estimate the forces at work in him and around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast...
...this were the only respect in which the managers of the book had erred, it would be of little importance; but they have done something that looks very much like deliberate plagiarism. As one looks at the " eating club" illustrations, he is astonished to find that one on page 142, is merely a sifting together of the figures in two of Atwood's famous sketches in the Lampoon, without so much as a hint at the authorship of the design. As this looks suspicious, the reader will look over the book again, and lo ! on page 106, the young lady...
Quite a number of men have accepted Mr. Clymer's proposition to substitute a twelve page argument for the next two required junior themes...