Identifier: mccluresmagazinev8mccl (find matches)
Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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acy. It was his fate—a fate with Cleveland administration can confidentlysomething of the tragic in it—that his very appeal to the judgment of history. No-endeavors to revive the best of the old body pretends that Mr. Cleveland is theDemocracy served only to reveal the moral ideal human being or the ideal statesman;decay and the political disruption of the but it is safe to say that the greatnessDemocracy of his day, and to consign him of his name will constantly grow in theto an isolation paralleled in our history historic retrospect, and that his figure willonly by that of John Quincy Adams, continue to stand strong and eminent inThere could be no more whimsical irony the front rank of American Presidentsof fortune than that, after Mr. Cleveland long after the small politicians whohad led his party to victory over the sought to thwart or belittle him haveMcKinley tariff, not only the specific fruits been buried under the drift sands ofof that victory were made repugnant to time.
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> o ffi< o H O i—i oPi QO J PiO CO enW OPi P-, McClures Magazine. Vol. IX. JUNE, 1897. No. 2. THE FLYING-MACHINE. By Professor S. P. Langley With illustrations made directly from Professor La??gleys machine and approved by him. I HAVE been asked to prepare an ac- and which have actually flown for consid-count of some experiments I have erable distances. There is in preparationconducted with flying-machines, built a description of this work for the profes-chiefly of steel, driven by steam-engines, sional reader; but in view of the great gen-eral interest in it, and of the nu-merous unauthorized statementsabout it, it has seemed well towrite provisionally the informaland popular account which isnow given. The work has occu-pied so much of my life that Ihave presented what I have tosay at present in narrative form.By flying-machine is heremeant something much heavierthan the air, and entirely differ-ent in principle from the balloon,which floats only on account ofits lightness, a

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