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| ... than the lines of Men and Women, it follows that there is no little danger lest the points of a square or triangular house residence might do serious injury to an inconsiderate or perhaps absent-minded traveller suddenly therefore, running against them: and as early as the eleventh century of ... |
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| ... of April, 1788--"the pride and boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature." At his residence at Mount Vernon, in March, 1785, the first idea was started of a revisal of the Articles of Confederation, by the organization, of means differing ... |
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| ... a "puny insect shivering at a breeze"; he is the glory of creation, formed to occupy all time and all extent; bounded, during his residence upon earth, only to the boundaries of the world, and destined to life and immortality in brighter regions, when the fabric of nature itself shall ... |
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| ... a castle or town wall. Great Hall: The building in the inner ward that housed the main meeting and dining area for the castle''s residence. Half-timber: The common form of medieval construction in which walls were made of a wood frame structure filled with wattle and daub. Hoarding: A ... |
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| ... the People," and which could doubtless claim the Settlement as one of its manifestations. Nevertheless the processes by which so simple a conclusion as residence among the poor in East London was reached, seemed to me very involved and roundabout. However inevitable these processes might be for class-conscious Englishmen, ... |
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| ... might decide to scatter through the neighborhood and to live in separate tenements; he still contended that the fascination for most of those volunteering residence would lie in the collective living aspect of the Settlement. His contention was, of course, essentially sound; there is a constant tendency for the residents ... |
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| ... While all the new furniture which was bought was enduring in quality, we were careful to keep it in character with the fine old residence. Probably no young matron ever placed her own things in her own house with more pleasure than that with which we first furnished Hull-House. ... |
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| ... an auditor who knew the conditions more intimately than I could hope to do. Halsted Street has grown so familiar during twenty years of residence that it is difficult to recall its gradual changes,--the withdrawal of the more prosperous Irish and Germans, and the slow substitution of Russian Jews, ... |
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| ... that Chicago ranks as the third Bohemian city in the world. To the northwest are many Canadian-French, clannish in spite of their long residence in America, and to the north are Irish and first-generation Americans. On the streets directly west and farther north are well-to-do English ... |
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| ... are "great for books," as their neighbors say. To such the Settlement may be a genuine refuge. In the very first weeks of our residence Miss Starr started a reading party in George Eliot''s "Romola," which was attended by a group of young women who followed the wonderful tale with ... |
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| ... received. Perhaps these first days laid the simple human foundations which are certainly essential for continuous living among the poor; first, genuine preference for residence in an industrial quarter to any other part of the city, because it is interesting and makes the human appeal; and second, the conviction, in ... |
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