The North American Review, Volume 27Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1828 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... knowledge of the matter in the honorable mover ( if not misreported ) , that nothing was said by him , on that occasion , of the measures long ago adopted by the British government , with a view to the deriving of benefit from the waste ...
... knowledge of the matter in the honorable mover ( if not misreported ) , that nothing was said by him , on that occasion , of the measures long ago adopted by the British government , with a view to the deriving of benefit from the waste ...
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... knowledge , privity , or consent of his Majesty's servants , bound by their oath , their honor , and their duty to obey them , instituted a long and patient investigation into the origin of these abuses . They have been painfully , but ...
... knowledge , privity , or consent of his Majesty's servants , bound by their oath , their honor , and their duty to obey them , instituted a long and patient investigation into the origin of these abuses . They have been painfully , but ...
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... knowledge , and in supporting the college of Quebec , are now claimed , in order to be appropriated to the same object . These estates had been granted to lord Amherst , after the conquest ; but from the dubious nature of the title , he ...
... knowledge , and in supporting the college of Quebec , are now claimed , in order to be appropriated to the same object . These estates had been granted to lord Amherst , after the conquest ; but from the dubious nature of the title , he ...
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... knowledge , which in any way connect them- selves with their profession . But with respect to these socie- ties themselves , the reproach has arisen rather from a miscon- ception of the main objects of their institution , than from a ...
... knowledge , which in any way connect them- selves with their profession . But with respect to these socie- ties themselves , the reproach has arisen rather from a miscon- ception of the main objects of their institution , than from a ...
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... knowledge , they have not failed to diffuse the benefits of that knowledge over the whole body of the medical profession , and by that means to ex- tend it to the whole community . Their operations have raised very essentially the ...
... knowledge , they have not failed to diffuse the benefits of that knowledge over the whole body of the medical profession , and by that means to ex- tend it to the whole community . Their operations have raised very essentially the ...
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Page 465 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him : he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 119 - I" the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 120 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 74 - ... knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned, and which, when carried to excess, are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country.
Page 465 - Were with his heart, and that was far away : He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday — All this rushed with his blood. Shall he expire, And unavenged ? Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire...
Page 122 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 74 - ... it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Page 515 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Page 302 - ... the which (though not ordered) when very many did, the Lord Falkland (who believed the service itself not to be of that moment, and that an honorable and generous person could not have stooped to it for any recompense), instead of moving his hat, stretched both his arms out and clasped his hands together upon the crown of his hat, and held it close down to his head; that all men might see how odious that flattery was to him, and the very approbation of the person, though at that time most popular.
Page 198 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles, that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity, equal to one another.