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18. lappuse - He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.
18. lappuse - ... the impression of a passage through. There is a distaste for lingering, as in Emily Dickinson. As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes. There is a swiftness impaling beauty, but no impatience as in so much present-day trouble with verse. It is a rapidity too swift for touch, a seraphic quality, one might have said yesterday. There is, however, no breast that warms the bars of heaven; it is at most a swiftness that...
27. lappuse - ... been forgotten. This was not always so. It is well known that the patriots of the revolution, both North and South, regarded slavery as a great evil, and earnestly desired its extinction. " Slavery has been opposed by eminent men in America from the beginning. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Jay, Hamilton, and many more of those who took a conspicuous part in laying the foundations of the government, regarded slavery as a great evil, inconsistent with the principles of the Declaration...
18. lappuse - Wisconsin constitute one of the most important and most valuable elements of the state 's water resources and their importance as an asset of the state will undoubtedly be enormously enhanced by future development. So far comparatively little has been done to develop their latent resources but it is only a question of time when they will be made to contribute their full share to the material, cultural, and scientific phases of the state's progress.
11. lappuse - Senate, and urges the principle that consent takes away error, as applying, on this occasion, to give the Senate jurisdiction ; but, as no person appears to prosecute, and there is no evidence adduced to the Senate, nor even a specific charge, the committee think any further inquiry by the Senate would be improper. If there were no objections of this sort, the committee would still be of opinion that the memorial could not be sustained. They think that, in a case of this kind, no person can be held...
18. lappuse - ... that can be held firm only by moving rapidly from one thing to the next. It gives the impression of a passage through. There is a distaste for lingering, as in Emily Dickinson. As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes. There is a swiftness impaling beauty, but no impatience as in so much present-day trouble with verse. It is a rapidity too swift for touch, a seraphic quality, one might have said yesterday. There is,...
27. lappuse - Do you believe in God? 9'% 9% 2. Do you believe in immortality? 88 12 3. Do you believe in prayer as a means of personal relationship with God? 88 12 4. Do you believe that Jesus was divine as no other man was divine? 85 15 5. Do you regard the Bible as inspired in a sense that no other literature could be said to be inspired? 85 15 6. Are you an active member of any church? 77 23 7. Do you regularly attend any religious services?
21. lappuse - ... act is to destroy every form of freedom that is not directed wholly to that end. And its second is to butcher all professional libertarians. If Thomas Jefferson had been living in Paris in 1793 he would have made an even narrower escape from the guillotine than Thomas Paine made. The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind.
19. lappuse - You may not agree with Mr. Eaton always. In fact, it is safe to predict that you will often disagree with him. But you will not find him dull.
27. lappuse - From reading some thousand pamphlets I am convinced that the Civil War was brought about by an organized minority, busily engaged in spreading stories often untrue or exaggerated.