The North American Review, Volum 44Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1837 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... ancient Greeks called the world xóouos , Beauty ; a name which , in our artificial state of society , sounds fanciful and impertinent . Yet , in proportion as the mind of man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean ...
... ancient Greeks called the world xóouos , Beauty ; a name which , in our artificial state of society , sounds fanciful and impertinent . Yet , in proportion as the mind of man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean ...
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... ancient Persian . When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it , he demanded , " that he and his should neither command nor obey , but should be free . " However , 1837. ] 11 ...
... ancient Persian . When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it , he demanded , " that he and his should neither command nor obey , but should be free . " However , 1837. ] 11 ...
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... ancient or modern times , ever scrupled to found its legislation upon this basis . Our author relies very much in argument , upon the humane and pacific spirit of our religion , as evinced in various pas- sages of the Scriptures , and ...
... ancient or modern times , ever scrupled to found its legislation upon this basis . Our author relies very much in argument , upon the humane and pacific spirit of our religion , as evinced in various pas- sages of the Scriptures , and ...
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... ancient literature is deeply impress- ed with the peculiar quality , which can be described in its effect by that word alone . The study of the best classics soothes and solemnizes the mind like the contemplation of na- ture , or the ...
... ancient literature is deeply impress- ed with the peculiar quality , which can be described in its effect by that word alone . The study of the best classics soothes and solemnizes the mind like the contemplation of na- ture , or the ...
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... ancient times . They are like the Hermæ at our doors , which outwardly appear to rest on inexpressive blocks of stone ; but when opened , they are found to contain beautiful statues of the gods within them . It is not so with the new ...
... ancient times . They are like the Hermæ at our doors , which outwardly appear to rest on inexpressive blocks of stone ; but when opened , they are found to contain beautiful statues of the gods within them . It is not so with the new ...
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Side 74 - Pennsylvania and the said territorial line: provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Side 141 - Tell me, man of military science, in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes, enumerated within the early limits of New England ? Tell me, politician, how long did this shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant coast...
Side 505 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Side 540 - I know a merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken.
Side 507 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of...
Side 439 - Ecclesiastes, the title of which is placed at the head of this article. His explanations of that most remarkable book, unique among the writings of either Testament, are interesting to the alumni of Andover for old acquaintance...
Side 142 - The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging : the laboring masts seem straining from their base : the dismal sound of the pumps is heard : the ship leaps, as it •were, madly from billow to billow : the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel.
Side 141 - Methinks I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous vessel, the Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a future state, and bound across the unknown sea.
Side 504 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues...
Side 307 - Indians : for a party passing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry ; and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their journey.