The North American Review, Volume 79Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1854 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... influence , a tree is a marvel of strength and grace ; it is a servant of man , patiently standing and holding out its living baskets of fruit , and holding up its regal canopy ; it is a palace of the birds , domed , windowed , and ...
... influence , a tree is a marvel of strength and grace ; it is a servant of man , patiently standing and holding out its living baskets of fruit , and holding up its regal canopy ; it is a palace of the birds , domed , windowed , and ...
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... columns , rain- bowed with mosaic , St. Peter's . Such an enterprise as the Western Central or the Pacific Railroad has its roots in a - long series of events and influences . Every man and 1854. ] 23 A NATURAL THEOLOGY OF ART .
... columns , rain- bowed with mosaic , St. Peter's . Such an enterprise as the Western Central or the Pacific Railroad has its roots in a - long series of events and influences . Every man and 1854. ] 23 A NATURAL THEOLOGY OF ART .
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... influences . Every man and every hour that contribute to a sublime end , for the most part look only to some immediate , trivial object . None but an All- wise Power brings forth the surpassing grandeurs of civiliza- tion . - How is the ...
... influences . Every man and every hour that contribute to a sublime end , for the most part look only to some immediate , trivial object . None but an All- wise Power brings forth the surpassing grandeurs of civiliza- tion . - How is the ...
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... influences of nature and society ; and they are a transcript of impressions made upon his mind by the common incidents of daily life . " The subjects are such as these : " Factory Girls , " " A Mormon Conventicle , " " The Yankee ...
... influences of nature and society ; and they are a transcript of impressions made upon his mind by the common incidents of daily life . " The subjects are such as these : " Factory Girls , " " A Mormon Conventicle , " " The Yankee ...
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... influence as a political writer , and for the intrepidity with which he maintained his Antislavery views in despite of the opposition of the Democratic party of which he was a member , and of the bulls of excommunication thundered at ...
... influence as a political writer , and for the intrepidity with which he maintained his Antislavery views in despite of the opposition of the Democratic party of which he was a member , and of the bulls of excommunication thundered at ...
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Page 472 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 475 - Whereas differences have arisen respecting the liberty claimed by the United States for the Inhabitants thereof, to take, dry and cure Fish on Certain Coasts, Bays, Harbours and Creeks of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America, it is agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind on that part of the...
Page 274 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 108 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 286 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wond'ring Senates hung on all he spoke, The Club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 338 - A man is not to be excused from responsibility, if he has capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong as to the particular act he is then doing; a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and criminal, and will subject him to punishment.
Page 475 - And the United States hereby renounce for ever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America not included within the abovementioned limits.
Page 28 - Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
Page 16 - And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep, A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered, "I have felt.
Page 281 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies;' And ' dust to dust