The North American Review, Volume 56University of Northern Iowa, 1843 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... British topics until now that the happy consummation of our long- cherished hopes allows us to speak out , in all the cordiality of friendly intercourse . - We are no longer restrained by delicacy , or the fear of misapprehension , from ...
... British topics until now that the happy consummation of our long- cherished hopes allows us to speak out , in all the cordiality of friendly intercourse . - We are no longer restrained by delicacy , or the fear of misapprehension , from ...
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... British subjects , no matter from what part of the empire they come , are confounded in the general term English ; and in this sense we have used it . On the other hand , the English people apply the word abroad in common parlance as we ...
... British subjects , no matter from what part of the empire they come , are confounded in the general term English ; and in this sense we have used it . On the other hand , the English people apply the word abroad in common parlance as we ...
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... British empire , towards the establishment of a social system , which , like the political constitution of the country , though not written down into a formal code , ought to present a whole of practical wisdom and virtue , for the ...
... British empire , towards the establishment of a social system , which , like the political constitution of the country , though not written down into a formal code , ought to present a whole of practical wisdom and virtue , for the ...
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... British poets have fostered the error . But the following portrait , ( from Johnson's " London , " ) coarse and exaggerated , even for the period of its appearance , is very nearly the model on which an untravelled Englishman to - day ...
... British poets have fostered the error . But the following portrait , ( from Johnson's " London , " ) coarse and exaggerated , even for the period of its appearance , is very nearly the model on which an untravelled Englishman to - day ...
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... British mercantile settlers , a large and influential body of men , may be designated , by wholesale , as the phalanx which redeems the errors and sustains the honor of national reputation , on the long - extended line of Continental ...
... British mercantile settlers , a large and influential body of men , may be designated , by wholesale , as the phalanx which redeems the errors and sustains the honor of national reputation , on the long - extended line of Continental ...
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Page 265 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
Page 57 - But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the...
Page 402 - ... to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws rights and obligations of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the Slave Trade, the said squadrons to be independent of each other, but the two Governments stipulating, nevertheless, to give such orders to the officers commanding their respective forces, as shall enable them most effectually to act in concert and cooperation, upon mutual consultation, as exigencies may arise, for the attainment of the true object of this article;...
Page 223 - ... heights and watch it through the trees, and see the wreathing water in the rapids hurrying on to take its fearful plunge; to linger in the shadow of the solemn rocks three miles below; watching the river as, stirred by no visible cause, it heaved and eddied and awoke the echoes, being troubled yet, far down beneath the surface, by its giant leap; to have Niagara before me , lighted by the sun and by the moon , red in the day's decline, and grey as evening slowly fell upon it; to look upon it...
Page 221 - Long before I looked upon her, the help had come. Her face was radiant with intelligence and pleasure. Her hair, braided by her own hands, was bound about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow ; her dress, arranged by herself, was a pattern of neatness and simplicity ; the work she had knitted, lay beside her ; her writingbook was on the desk she leaned upon. From the mournful ruin of such bereavement, there...
Page 323 - ... of the majority under arms; the jury is the majority invested with the right of hearing judicial cases; and in certain States even the judges are elected by the majority.
Page 266 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 379 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 57 - And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Page 57 - Lastly, leaving the vulgar arguments, that by learning man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts ; that by learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their -motions, where in body he cannot come, and the like ; let us conclude with the dignity and excellency of knowledge and learning in that...