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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... observation to point tremblingly to their source , and open it to their proprietors and lords , the human race ? In the divine sympathy or primordial corre- lation of nature and man , of divine laws and human uses of them , - of ...
... observation to point tremblingly to their source , and open it to their proprietors and lords , the human race ? In the divine sympathy or primordial corre- lation of nature and man , of divine laws and human uses of them , - of ...
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... observe that critics now recognize a moral element in the artist's style of execu- tion ; they speak of him as " sincere , faithful , conscientious , " in his drawing or singing . With the above five , or more , ex- ceptions , the one ...
... observe that critics now recognize a moral element in the artist's style of execu- tion ; they speak of him as " sincere , faithful , conscientious , " in his drawing or singing . With the above five , or more , ex- ceptions , the one ...
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... observation through the whole current of the history of the rebellion . At the trial of Charles , twenty years after the Massachusetts Company was formed , six at least of its members were appointed judges . Three of these were in favor ...
... observation through the whole current of the history of the rebellion . At the trial of Charles , twenty years after the Massachusetts Company was formed , six at least of its members were appointed judges . Three of these were in favor ...
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... observation , no doubt , but still , no less won- derful nor sublime than the highest inspirations of genius , he dealt the first and the decisive blow at a treatment which , re- pulsive as it was , seemed to be required by an imperious ...
... observation , no doubt , but still , no less won- derful nor sublime than the highest inspirations of genius , he dealt the first and the decisive blow at a treatment which , re- pulsive as it was , seemed to be required by an imperious ...
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... observations abroad , as well as of his own practical experience in the care of the insane , he digested a plan differing in many important features from any other among us , and differing , we believe , for the better . It was adopted ...
... observations abroad , as well as of his own practical experience in the care of the insane , he digested a plan differing in many important features from any other among us , and differing , we believe , for the better . It was adopted ...
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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