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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... hand it might be ob- jected and the objection is irresistible - that agriculture and all the interests connected with it , are more steady , less move- able , and less independent of the general system of a country , than the other ...
... hand it might be ob- jected and the objection is irresistible - that agriculture and all the interests connected with it , are more steady , less move- able , and less independent of the general system of a country , than the other ...
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... hand so far as to occupy sub- stantially the very space upon the globe , which belongs to the southern continent . Meantime , the tracts of land that were really islands retained their primitive names , while the name . of America ...
... hand so far as to occupy sub- stantially the very space upon the globe , which belongs to the southern continent . Meantime , the tracts of land that were really islands retained their primitive names , while the name . of America ...
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... hands of the savages . Frantic with grief , he pursued the track of the In- dians , who at first doomed him to death , sparing his life only a short time at the instance of the lady . A 1828. ] 39 Compagnoni's America .
... hands of the savages . Frantic with grief , he pursued the track of the In- dians , who at first doomed him to death , sparing his life only a short time at the instance of the lady . A 1828. ] 39 Compagnoni's America .
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... hands , burnings , scaldings , sore mouths , the stone , strangury , saucelim and morphew , and such other like diseases . After various other severe charges against the surgeons , among the rest that it is well known that the surgeons ...
... hands , burnings , scaldings , sore mouths , the stone , strangury , saucelim and morphew , and such other like diseases . After various other severe charges against the surgeons , among the rest that it is well known that the surgeons ...
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... hands of foreigners , and the intercourse which has been established with the Chippewas , has done much to alleviate their jealousies , and place them on a friendly footing . If partial instances of hostility have , within a few years ...
... hands of foreigners , and the intercourse which has been established with the Chippewas , has done much to alleviate their jealousies , and place them on a friendly footing . If partial instances of hostility have , within a few years ...
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Page 465 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him : he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 119 - 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 120 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 74 - ... 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 465 - Were with his heart, 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 Dacian 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 122 - 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 74 - ... 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 515 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Page 302 - ... the which (though not ordered) when very many did, the Lord Falkland (who believed the service itself not to be of that moment, and that an honorable 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 198 - 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.