The North American Review, Volume 30O. Everett, 1830 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... mind he was found by Mr Jay on his arrival from Madrid . The latter was not slow to perceive the effects of such a course , nor to detect the secret source whence the insidious counsel flowed . Mr Jay denounced the policy of the Count ...
... mind he was found by Mr Jay on his arrival from Madrid . The latter was not slow to perceive the effects of such a course , nor to detect the secret source whence the insidious counsel flowed . Mr Jay denounced the policy of the Count ...
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... mind , that it was written before the British commissioner had seen Mr Jay , and three months and a half before Mr Adams arrived in Paris . It must be deemed , therefore , as expressing the un- biassed opinions of Dr Franklin , and the ...
... mind , that it was written before the British commissioner had seen Mr Jay , and three months and a half before Mr Adams arrived in Paris . It must be deemed , therefore , as expressing the un- biassed opinions of Dr Franklin , and the ...
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... mind ' he was found by Mr Jay . The subject need not be pursued . The testimony is complete and irresistible . As to another part of the extract , which tells of an extraor- dinary letter from Mr Jay to the English secretary of state ...
... mind ' he was found by Mr Jay . The subject need not be pursued . The testimony is complete and irresistible . As to another part of the extract , which tells of an extraor- dinary letter from Mr Jay to the English secretary of state ...
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... mind so forcibly , that it was not to be dislodged by this mode of reason- ing . His imagination was fertile in devising the means of evil , which our ally had it in her power to practise upon the United States , in promoting her own ...
... mind so forcibly , that it was not to be dislodged by this mode of reason- ing . His imagination was fertile in devising the means of evil , which our ally had it in her power to practise upon the United States , in promoting her own ...
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... mind , which was probably never removed . Mr Rayneval's confidential note was not made public , and Mr Jay had no means of knowing what had occurred in his interviews with the British ministry . Mr Oswald's commission was chang- ed , in ...
... mind , which was probably never removed . Mr Rayneval's confidential note was not made public , and Mr Jay had no means of knowing what had occurred in his interviews with the British ministry . Mr Oswald's commission was chang- ed , in ...
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Page 524 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 100 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 319 - GAY, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven. Why perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend...
Page 568 - CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY; comprehending" the Elements of Botany, with their application to Agriculture.
Page 323 - One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing waters mark his resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er. Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more ; Down, countless fathoms down, he sinks to sleep. With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep.
Page 524 - Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers, to repeat and model into every form, lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts?
Page 516 - I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.
Page 87 - Indians within the chartered limits of the British colonies. It asserted, also, a limited sovereignty over them, and the exclusive right of extinguishing the title which occupancy gave to them. These claims have been maintained and established, as far west as the river Mississippi, by the sword.
Page 129 - Majesty's orders and instructions, namely, that your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and live stock of all sorts, are forfeited to the Crown ; with all other your effects, saving your money and household goods, and you yourselves to be removed from this his province.
Page 278 - The earth is full of life ; the living Hand Touched it with life ; and all its forms expand With principles of being made to suit Man's varied powers, and raise him from the brute. And shall the earth of higher ends be full ? — Earth which thou tread'st ! — and thy poor mind be dull t Thou talk of life, with half thy soul asleep! Thou