Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border of the precipice where the arch enemy of souls finds his greatest hunting ground. It is the first step then that is accountable for all. Once make yourself a drunkard, and drunkenness does not appear as base to you as before...
...month and field expenses. One of the best tields for a geologist is in the mines. The salary of a mine superintendent in the eastern part of the United States is usually $2000 or $3000 per annum, and in the Rocky Mountains it reaches as high as $5000. The step from the manager of mine to the owner of one is not difficult, as an experienced man gets opportunities of buying a mine from its ruined owner for very little. For the life of a mine manager a man must be able bodied, fond of an outdoor life, and content...
...attempted to sweep away all the effects of the Revolution, they were eventually obliged to establish a government even freer than Napoleon's They could not restore a trace of the social inequalities, The new government established in 1830 was no contradiction of the Revolutionary principles but a step nearer a republic than the reactionary Bourbonism had been. It proved, however, impossible for the new king to follow the movement toward liberty, and he was driven from his throne. The government of Napoleon III again obtamed the support of the nation by promising to recognize the principles...
...make more than a hundred dollars for two or three years, while if he had stayed at home he would have gradually worked his way ahead. In short, going abroad to complete a man's musical education is not now a necessity, and in many cases not an advisable step...
...step towards a change in the form of government at Yale must come from within the corporation. In this In this connection the Boston Herald recently said; It is the hope of many that when the next clerical vacancy is the corporation occurs, the place may be filled by one who is not a Congregationalist minister, or by a minister of that faith who resides out of the state, This would give an opportunity of bringing before the supreme court of the state a friendly suit to determine whether the corporation had exceeded its powers, and, if the case were...