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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... language , if strictly taken , implies that the Creator had no purpose that the materials he has supplied should be fashioned into beauti- ful villages and splendid cities ; that he gave man no instinct or skill so to use them , and ...
... language , if strictly taken , implies that the Creator had no purpose that the materials he has supplied should be fashioned into beauti- ful villages and splendid cities ; that he gave man no instinct or skill so to use them , and ...
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... language of unfathomable joy , grief , and aspiration , and is thus akin to the infinite and divine . Further , in the musical instrument man employs the mathe- matics and harmonies by which the universe was made ; he imprisons the ...
... language of unfathomable joy , grief , and aspiration , and is thus akin to the infinite and divine . Further , in the musical instrument man employs the mathe- matics and harmonies by which the universe was made ; he imprisons the ...
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... language to utter . To those who are verily awakened to the great worlds of truth and beauty , the universe daily becomes a sublimer miracle . Not a summer cloud sleeps in the blue air , or un- folds its pure fulness , or melts in the ...
... language to utter . To those who are verily awakened to the great worlds of truth and beauty , the universe daily becomes a sublimer miracle . Not a summer cloud sleeps in the blue air , or un- folds its pure fulness , or melts in the ...
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... language , to call any artificial thing very natural , in its circumstances ; all that is human appears quite inevita- ble , to some moods of mind . The Mormon temple , absurd as it seemed , was but an aerolite thrown westward by the ...
... language , to call any artificial thing very natural , in its circumstances ; all that is human appears quite inevita- ble , to some moods of mind . The Mormon temple , absurd as it seemed , was but an aerolite thrown westward by the ...
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... language being admitted to be of divine origin , there can be no doubt that the specific impulses to other human arts are equally so . A glance at the relics of ancient Egypt is more instructive than Herodotus . The elaborate ...
... language being admitted to be of divine origin , there can be no doubt that the specific impulses to other human arts are equally so . A glance at the relics of ancient Egypt is more instructive than Herodotus . The elaborate ...
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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