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Page 124 - I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love Jul. Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Page 88 - CIVILIZATION, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Page 112 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 139 - He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain...
Page 139 - ... the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.
Page 14 - No insane person, idiot, or person who has been afflicted with syphilis or gonorrhea, and has not been cured of the same, shall be capable of contracting marriage.
Page 124 - I know not how to describe the sickening aversion which at times steals over the working man, and utterly disables him for a longer or a shorter period, from following his usual occupation, and compels him to indulge in idleness.
Page 97 - Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so: " Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — " Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go...
Page 102 - I've known people who could see nothing but theirselves and their own families unless they were drunk. At my daughter's trial, I see right into the lawyers, judge and all. There she was, hub of the whole thing, and all they could see of 'er was 'ow she affected 'em personally. One tryin' to get 'er guilty, the other tryin' to get 'er off, and the judge summin
Page 4 - Yon will find all the men who really give themselves most trouble about the poor, are the most alive to the terrible evils of the so-called charity which pours money into the haunts of misery and vice every winter.
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| Title | Social Casework, Volume 5 |
| Contributors | Family Service Association of America, Family Welfare Association of America, American Association for Organizing Family Social Work |
| Publisher | American Association for Organizing Family Social Work, 1924 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 25 May 2007 |
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