Her pale eyes glistened, her thin nostrils dilated—Aunt Olivia's whole lean, sharp, unemotional person put on suspicion. — from Rebecca Mary by Annie Hamilton Donnell
studied under Professor Putnam of
There occurs to me at this moment Henry Roe Cloud, a Sioux, who graduated from Yale a few years ago; Doctor Charles A. Eastman, a distinguished author and lecturer, Dartmouth; Charles E. Dagenett, Supervisor of Employment, United States Indian Service, who graduated from Eastman Business College; Arthur C. Parker, State Archaeologist of New York, Albany, who studied under Professor Putnam of Harvard; Rev. Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho, graduate of Hobart College and Seabury Divinity School; Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Apache, University of Illinois; Howard E. Gainsworth, Tuscarora, business expert, Princeton; Rev. Frank W. Wright, Revivalist, Choctaw, graduate of Union College; Doctor Olephant Wright, Choctaw, Union College; Miss Bee Mayes (Pe-ahm-ees-queet), Ojibwa, educated in Boston, musician; Louis Shotrige, Chilkoot, Chief of his tribe, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania; Nicholas Longfeather, Pueblo, inventor and tree doctor, graduated from Syracuse; Marvin Jack, Tuscarora, horticulturalist, Cornell; Rev. Philip B. Gordon, Chippewa, priest, graduate of St. Paul’s; Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin, Chippewa, lawyer, graduate of Washington College of Law; Dennison Wheelock, Oneida, lawyer, Dickinson College; Thomas St. Germain, Chippewa, business, Yale; John M. Oskison, Cherokee, newspaper business, Harvard; William F. Bourland, Chickasaw, lawyer, graduate of Berkley; Asa F. Hill, Mohawk, minister, Denison; Francis La Flesche, Omaha, author; Angel Deceva-Deetz, Winnebago, artist; Zit-kal-a-sa, Sioux, writer; Elmer La Fouso, California, singer; Tscawina Redfeather, Creek, singer; Jeff. — from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914
... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead
surrounded us poor political outcasts
The wonder is, as my father used to say, that, where so many powerful temptations surrounded us, poor political outcasts, so few proved false." — from Ralph Wilton's weird by Mrs. Alexander
some under pretence perhaps of
Traders were not slow to supply this demand, and vying with one another they crept nearer and nearer to the sacred precincts, until some, under pretence perhaps of driving in an animal for sacrifice, made a sale within the outer court. — from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
still unseen planet Pluto on
of masts caught the emanations of the distant Sun on the one hand and directed them outward to the still unseen planet Pluto on the other—the ship halted. — from The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Donald A. Wollheim
struggle using peaceful propaganda or
“Shall we first educate the people and then change the forms of life, or first change the forms and then struggle, using peaceful propaganda or terrorism? — from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
see Universal Passion part of
Particular, see Universal Passion, part of soul, 28, 169 Paul, St., influence of Stoicism on, 228; relation of, to Greek philosophy, 244 Pericles, friend of Anaxagoras, 52; and of Protagoras, 86 Peripatetics, origin of name, 174 Personality, absence of, in Greek thought, 40 Persuasion, only true wisdom, 88 Phaedo, quoted from, 54; dialogue, 136 Phaedrus, dialogue, 142 Phenomena, not source of abstract ideas, 15 Philebus, dialogue, 156 Philosophy, different from science, 9; does not forbid inconsistency, 64; a form of poesy or fiction, 66; at the basis of religion, art, and morals, 67; great philosophies never die, 68; first systematically divided by Democritus, 75; relation to politics, 82, 97; paradox of, 100; crisis of, ib. — from A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. (John) Marshall
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