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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... remarkable for his ability and 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 ...
... remarkable for his ability and 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 ...
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... remarkable position for a British col- ony in the sixth year of its existence . VOL . LXXIX . - NO . 164 . 6 Another instance where the home government is alluded to during 1854. ] 61 EARLY RECORDS OF MASSACHUSETTS .
... remarkable position for a British col- ony in the sixth year of its existence . VOL . LXXIX . - NO . 164 . 6 Another instance where the home government is alluded to during 1854. ] 61 EARLY RECORDS OF MASSACHUSETTS .
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... remarkable . That , in the infancy of their enterprise , they make no appeal to it at all , is important , though indefinite , testimony . The whole legislation is that of a state which had complete powers within itself . No favor , no ...
... remarkable . That , in the infancy of their enterprise , they make no appeal to it at all , is important , though indefinite , testimony . The whole legislation is that of a state which had complete powers within itself . No favor , no ...
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... remarkable instances thereof had been recorded , but all this was very far from a recognition of the great prin- ciple , that the restoration and comfort of the insane require , in addition to drugs and diet , a special management of ...
... remarkable instances thereof had been recorded , but all this was very far from a recognition of the great prin- ciple , that the restoration and comfort of the insane require , in addition to drugs and diet , a special management of ...
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... remarkable complacency in what had been actually done , the progress of improvement has been slow and fitful . The erection of the McLean Asylum , in this vicinity , opened in 1818 , gave the first notable impulse to the art of hospital ...
... remarkable complacency in what had been actually done , the progress of improvement has been slow and fitful . The erection of the McLean Asylum , in this vicinity , opened in 1818 , gave the first notable impulse to the art of hospital ...
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Page 272 - 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 284 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Page 284 - 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 336 - On the contrary, although he may be laboring under partial insanity, if he still understands the nature and character of his act, and its consequences; if he has a knowledge that it is wrong and criminal, and a mental power sufficient to apply that knowledge to his own case, and to know that, if he does the act, he will do wrong and receive punishment; such partial insanity is not sufficient to exempt him from responsibility for criminal acts.
Page 468 - 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 471 - 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 449 - And the said Regents shall make, from the interest of said fund, an appropriation, not exceeding an average of twenty-five thousand dollars annually, for the gradual formation of a library composed of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge.
Page 41 - The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught ear, The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's hurried time, Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife, are here.
Page 26 - 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 279 - 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