The North American Review, Volume 27Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1828 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... in the same month and the same year an arrêt was passed to remedy the inconveniences consequent VOL . XXVII . - NO . 60 . * Vol . i , p . 224 . 2 • upon bestowing large tracts of land upon persons who 1828. ] Lower Canada .
... in the same month and the same year an arrêt was passed to remedy the inconveniences consequent VOL . XXVII . - NO . 60 . * Vol . i , p . 224 . 2 • upon bestowing large tracts of land upon persons who 1828. ] Lower Canada .
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... persons who were never able to clear them , on account of their great extent , and to prescribe , that within a limited period all the lands should be cleared , or otherwise those which should remain uncleared , were to be distributed ...
... persons who were never able to clear them , on account of their great extent , and to prescribe , that within a limited period all the lands should be cleared , or otherwise those which should remain uncleared , were to be distributed ...
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... person who has not previously made it appear , that he is in a condition to cultivate and to im- prove the land ; that the lands to be granted shall be laid out in townships , so far as local circumstances will permit , each con ...
... person who has not previously made it appear , that he is in a condition to cultivate and to im- prove the land ; that the lands to be granted shall be laid out in townships , so far as local circumstances will permit , each con ...
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... person on whom such right shall be so conferred , or to whom such right shall severally so descend , shall thereupon be entitled to demand from the governor , lieutenant governor , or person administering the government of such province ...
... person on whom such right shall be so conferred , or to whom such right shall severally so descend , shall thereupon be entitled to demand from the governor , lieutenant governor , or person administering the government of such province ...
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... persons perished in battle , and more than fifty thousand by in- fectious distempers , occasioned by the impurity of the air ari- sing from the great multitude of putrefying bodies . There is no excess of suffering which the wretched ...
... persons perished in battle , and more than fifty thousand by in- fectious distempers , occasioned by the impurity of the air ari- sing from the great multitude of putrefying bodies . There is no excess of suffering which the wretched ...
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Page 463 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd not of the life he lost, nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 117 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 463 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 72 - ... knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned, and which, when carried to excess, are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country.
Page 120 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 72 - ... it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Page 513 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Page 300 - Falkland, (who believed the service itself not to be of that moment, and that an honourable and generous person could not have stooped to it for any recompense,) instead of moving his hat, stretched both his arms out, and clasped his hands together upon the crown of his hat, and held it close down to his head; that all men might see, how odious that flattery was to him, and the very approbation of the person, though at that time most popular.
Page 196 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles, that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity, equal to one another.
Page 72 - Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of so desirable an object as this is (in my estimation), my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure, than the establishment of...