The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 |
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Pagina 90
... played an im- portant rôle . Their famous medicine was St. Jacob's Oil , which at one time was carried up and down the Missis- sippi in a steamboat owned by the firm . Another Balti- more firm , the A. C. Meyer Company , produced a lini ...
... played an im- portant rôle . Their famous medicine was St. Jacob's Oil , which at one time was carried up and down the Missis- sippi in a steamboat owned by the firm . Another Balti- more firm , the A. C. Meyer Company , produced a lini ...
Pagina 98
... playing . Had he been asked to reconstruct the Empire of Russia or to federate the South American Republics , he would have replied without hesitation Yes , good idea ! I will attend to that next week . ' Schwab's greatest achievement ...
... playing . Had he been asked to reconstruct the Empire of Russia or to federate the South American Republics , he would have replied without hesitation Yes , good idea ! I will attend to that next week . ' Schwab's greatest achievement ...
Pagina 126
... played a leading part . Such were ( 1 ) the question of slavery ; ( 2 ) civil service ; ( 3 ) sound money ; ( 4 ) party reform ; ( 5 ) temperance and personal liberty ; ( 6 ) independent voting . These questions will be considered ...
... played a leading part . Such were ( 1 ) the question of slavery ; ( 2 ) civil service ; ( 3 ) sound money ; ( 4 ) party reform ; ( 5 ) temperance and personal liberty ; ( 6 ) independent voting . These questions will be considered ...
Pagina 145
... played the anthems of the different countries . A servant who had long been in the employ of diplomatists , and who knew all the dignitaries , gave the signal as they approached , where- upon Holls played the appropriate national air ...
... played the anthems of the different countries . A servant who had long been in the employ of diplomatists , and who knew all the dignitaries , gave the signal as they approached , where- upon Holls played the appropriate national air ...
Pagina 204
... played a prominent part in the history of American schools , it was coeducational , and it added a night school for those that labored during the day or were too far advanced in age for the day school . The personality and achievements ...
... played a prominent part in the history of American schools , it was coeducational , and it added a night school for those that labored during the day or were too far advanced in age for the day school . The personality and achievements ...
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Pagina 148 - I remember when they modestly declined intermeddling in our elections, but now they come in droves and carry all before them, except in one or two counties.
Pagina 211 - Reader." A few copies of Noehden's Grammar were imported, and a few copies of I forget whose "Pocket Dictionary," fortunately too copious for an Anglo-Saxon pocket, and suggesting the generous amplitude of the Low Dutch costume, as described in Irving's mythical "History of New York.
Pagina 433 - This is the largest sum ever given by a man in the history of the race for any social or philanthropic purposes.
Pagina 204 - Strasburg, who gave instruction in mathematics. He was willing to do what he could for me in German, but he warned me that his pronunciation was very bad, as was that of all Alsace, which had become a part of France. Nor was it possible to get books. I borrowed a Meidinger's Grammar, French and German, from my friend, Mr. Everett, and sent to New Hampshire, where I knew there was a German Dictionary, and procured it. I also obtained a copy of Goethe's "Werther
Pagina 148 - English; the Signs in our Streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German: They begin of late to make all their Bonds and other legal...
Pagina 147 - I am perfectly of your mind, that measures of great temper are necessary with the Germans ; and am not without apprehensions, that, through their indiscretion, or ours, or both, great disorders may one day arise among us.
Pagina 537 - The Fatherland: 1450-1700, showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration, and development of the western continent, with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Pagina 245 - I never saw a population so totally divested of gaiety; there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other.
Pagina 148 - German. They begin of late to make all their bonds and other legal instruments in their own language, which (though I think it ought not to be) are allowed good in...
Pagina 148 - Few of their children in the country know English. They import many books from Germany; and of the six printing-houses in the province, two are entirely German, two half German half English, and but two entirely English.