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... RESPECT TO THE NUMBER REQUIRED FOR ADOPTION OF A CLOTURE MOTION MARCH 6 ( legislative day , February 25 ) , 1952. — Ordered to be printed MARCH 12 ( legislative day , FEBRUARY 25 ) , 1952. - Name of Mr. GREEN added as cosigner of ...
... RESPECT TO THE NUMBER REQUIRED FOR ADOPTION OF A CLOTURE MOTION MARCH 6 ( legislative day , February 25 ) , 1952. — Ordered to be printed MARCH 12 ( legislative day , FEBRUARY 25 ) , 1952. - Name of Mr. GREEN added as cosigner of ...
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And Other Basketball Skills Matt Scheff. A Show of Respect Players give their all on the court. They battle to outplay their opponents. Sometimes clashes get heated. But respecting an opponent is part of being a good sport. Denver ...
And Other Basketball Skills Matt Scheff. A Show of Respect Players give their all on the court. They battle to outplay their opponents. Sometimes clashes get heated. But respecting an opponent is part of being a good sport. Denver ...
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A Great Way to Self-Fulfillment Dietmar Voitel. One: Respect. So, how much do we really respect things, people, what someone says or does, and situations? Search your soul—check it out. Is there room for improvement? Are we really ...
A Great Way to Self-Fulfillment Dietmar Voitel. One: Respect. So, how much do we really respect things, people, what someone says or does, and situations? Search your soul—check it out. Is there room for improvement? Are we really ...
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Elizabeth Schulz. CHAPTER FOUR RESPECTING RULES AND LAWS TODAY. A. merican citizens practice respect for rules and laws in a number of ways. First, they respect rules and laws by knowing and following them. If people know and follow rules ...
Elizabeth Schulz. CHAPTER FOUR RESPECTING RULES AND LAWS TODAY. A. merican citizens practice respect for rules and laws in a number of ways. First, they respect rules and laws by knowing and following them. If people know and follow rules ...
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... respect that have crept into its concerns , should now be thoroughly divested of the very appearance of any thing that is favourable to Apocryphal distribution . 5. Those who have been accessory to that studied conceal- ment which the ...
... respect that have crept into its concerns , should now be thoroughly divested of the very appearance of any thing that is favourable to Apocryphal distribution . 5. Those who have been accessory to that studied conceal- ment which the ...
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Page 231 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 94 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Page 291 - He helped in the building of the new structure of Lincoln's Inn, when, having a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.
Page 87 - I devoted to them. I found besides a work of De Foe's, entitled ' An Essay on Projects,' from which, perhaps, I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life.
Page 150 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Page 185 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits ; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage, because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.
Page 116 - My original habits of frugality continuing, and my father having, among his instructions to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, " Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 90 - ... for the rhyme would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator...
Page 151 - a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.
Page 50 - ... so certainly if a man meditate much upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it (the divineness of souls except) will not seem much other than an ant-hill, whereas some ants carry corn, and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust.