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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... Thoughts . Revised and corrected by himself . 2. Night Thoughts on Life , Death , and Immortality . By EDWARD YOUNG . With a Memoir of the Author , etc. , by JAMES ROBERT BOYD . 3. The Complete Works , Poetry and Prose , of the REV ...
... Thoughts . Revised and corrected by himself . 2. Night Thoughts on Life , Death , and Immortality . By EDWARD YOUNG . With a Memoir of the Author , etc. , by JAMES ROBERT BOYD . 3. The Complete Works , Poetry and Prose , of the REV ...
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... thought , and lift their luxuriant crests into clear sunshine . A hundred mariners may have caught a glimpse of these , or may have run close alongside and recorded some description of them ; but no one of them may have landed , and ...
... thought , and lift their luxuriant crests into clear sunshine . A hundred mariners may have caught a glimpse of these , or may have run close alongside and recorded some description of them ; but no one of them may have landed , and ...
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... thought , whereon we have landed , to enjoy a ramble in search of nutritious fruits and fresh scenery , rather than to institute a scientific exploration . The useful arts , more than the fine , will be kept in mind , the former having ...
... thought , whereon we have landed , to enjoy a ramble in search of nutritious fruits and fresh scenery , rather than to institute a scientific exploration . The useful arts , more than the fine , will be kept in mind , the former having ...
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... thought on which we have set foot . But the truth is not followed in its leadings . It seems to have been assumed that the Great Artist had nothing but a general and indefinite design in the creation of finite artists and arti- sans ...
... thought on which we have set foot . But the truth is not followed in its leadings . It seems to have been assumed that the Great Artist had nothing but a general and indefinite design in the creation of finite artists and arti- sans ...
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... thought which has occurred to many minds , in the shape of an unde- veloped suggestion . Human art attests the Supreme Intelligence by disclosing , in the first place , the various susceptibilities of use and beauty inherent in every ...
... thought which has occurred to many minds , in the shape of an unde- veloped suggestion . Human art attests the Supreme Intelligence by disclosing , in the first place , the various susceptibilities of use and beauty inherent in every ...
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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