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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... Were it consistent with our present object , it would be in- teresting to accompany the author through the several stages of colonial history , and witness from step to step 1830. ] 11 Pitkin's History of the United States .
... Were it consistent with our present object , it would be in- teresting to accompany the author through the several stages of colonial history , and witness from step to step 1830. ] 11 Pitkin's History of the United States .
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... present connexion . Our thoughts are called to it by an extraordinary passage in Mr Cooper's late work on the United States . His words are here quoted . The Count de Vergennes had early succeeded in persuading Dr Franklin , that as ...
... present connexion . Our thoughts are called to it by an extraordinary passage in Mr Cooper's late work on the United States . His words are here quoted . The Count de Vergennes had early succeeded in persuading Dr Franklin , that as ...
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... present policy . By keeping the truce sus- pended over America , she forced that country to lean on France for support ; whereas by admitting her at once into the rank of nations , England would obtain a valuable customer , and might ...
... present policy . By keeping the truce sus- pended over America , she forced that country to lean on France for support ; whereas by admitting her at once into the rank of nations , England would obtain a valuable customer , and might ...
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... present . British and Irish ships in the colonies , to be , in like man- ner , on the same footing with their own ships . 4. Giving up every part of Canada . If there were any other articles of either kind , I cannot now recollect them ...
... present . British and Irish ships in the colonies , to be , in like man- ner , on the same footing with their own ships . 4. Giving up every part of Canada . If there were any other articles of either kind , I cannot now recollect them ...
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... present time . It is impossible , however , to pass them by with- out lamenting the melancholy picture they present of the pros- pects of liberty in South America , when an individual , whose influence is so paramount as Bolivar's , is ...
... present time . It is impossible , however , to pass them by with- out lamenting the melancholy picture they present of the pros- pects of liberty in South America , when an individual , whose influence is so paramount as Bolivar's , is ...
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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