The Secrets of the Great City

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Jones brothers & Company, 1868 - 552 頁
 

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第 509 頁 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them...
第 391 頁 - TO GOD, the mighty LORD, Your joyful thanks repeat ; To him due praise afford, As good as he is great : For GOD does prove Our constant friend ; His boundless love Shall never end.
第 328 頁 - There is rest for the weary, There is rest for the weary, There is rest for you ; On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet fields of Eden, Where the tree of life is blooming, There is rest for you.
第 112 頁 - What these relations shall be is one of the most interesting, and, at the same time, one of the most difficult, of the many problems with which we, or our successors, must deal.
第 76 頁 - ... one hundred and fifty dollars, as an annuity, to be paid such member, shall become chargeable upon the metropolitan police life insurance fund. If any member of the metropolitan police force, whilst in the actual discharge of his duty, shall be killed, or shall die from the immediate effect of any injury received by him whilst in such discharge of duty, or shall die after ten years...
第 76 頁 - If any member of the Metropolitan Police force, whilst in the actual performance of duty, shall become permanently disabled, so as to render his dismissal from membership proper, or if any such member shall become superannuated after ten years of membership...
第 77 頁 - ... service in the force, and shall leave a widow, and if no widow, any child or children under the age of sixteen years, a like sum, by way of annuity, shall become chargeable upon...
第 62 頁 - Roberta's presence at a special meeting at 2 PM is desired, the notice is left at his shop in the morning. If it is not desired, the notice is sent to his house in Harlem, after he has left it, Mr. Pullman, cabinet-maker, leaves his shop at noon, goes home to dinner, and returns soon after one. If his presence at the special meeting at 2 PM is desired, the notice is left at his house the evening before, or at his shop in the morning. If his presence is not desired, the notice is left at his shop...
第 54 頁 - There is a certain air (says the native authority from which we draw our facts) about most of these young Councilmen which, in the eyes of a New-Yorker, stamps them as belonging to what has been styled of late years " our ruling class " — butcher-boys who have got into politics, bar-keepers who have taken a leading part in primary ward meetings, young fellows who hang about engine-houses and billiard-rooms.
第 63 頁 - ... of the Ring introduced a resolution, vaguely worded, the object of which was to annul an old paving contract that would not pay at the present cost of labor and materials, and to authorize a new contract at higher rates. Before the clerk had finished reading the resolution, honest Stephen Roberts sprang to his feet, and, unrolling a remonstrance with several yards of signatures appended to it, stood, with his eye upon the chairman, ready to present it the moment the reading was concluded. This...

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