The North American Review, Volume 102O. Everett, 1866 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... party in the North , as in the nature of things it will be , soon will acquire too great a power to permit any of those changes which now are possible . Time heals many diseases in the body politic ; but , as we learned from slavery ...
... party in the North , as in the nature of things it will be , soon will acquire too great a power to permit any of those changes which now are possible . Time heals many diseases in the body politic ; but , as we learned from slavery ...
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... party , ruined so often this branch of Northern industry , - competition and custom . It would be unnecessary to dilate upon this subject , were it not a matter so little understood by one class of our po- litical economists , and never ...
... party , ruined so often this branch of Northern industry , - competition and custom . It would be unnecessary to dilate upon this subject , were it not a matter so little understood by one class of our po- litical economists , and never ...
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... party oppose a return to specie payments on the ground that such a course would prove highly injurious to the industrial interests of the country . This view can be supported by arguments seemingly so powerful , it appeals so strongly ...
... party oppose a return to specie payments on the ground that such a course would prove highly injurious to the industrial interests of the country . This view can be supported by arguments seemingly so powerful , it appeals so strongly ...
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... parties to fund a note , the note - holder and the government ; or , rather , the consent of the former to any arrangement the government chooses to propose is taken for granted . But let us see on what kind of terms a note could be ...
... parties to fund a note , the note - holder and the government ; or , rather , the consent of the former to any arrangement the government chooses to propose is taken for granted . But let us see on what kind of terms a note could be ...
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... party in favor of repudiating redemption in specie will get possession of the government , and reissue the entire mass of currency . The evil to be dreaded is strongly set forth in the following extract from a widely circulated document ...
... party in favor of repudiating redemption in specie will get possession of the government , and reissue the entire mass of currency . The evil to be dreaded is strongly set forth in the following extract from a widely circulated document ...
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Page 358 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 261 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 359 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Page 495 - ... reprisals, aggression, or hostility of any kind, by the one republic against the other, until the government of that which deems itself aggrieved shall have maturely considered, in the spirit of peace and good neighborship, whether it would not be better that such difference should be settled by the arbitration of commissioners appointed on each side, or by that of a friendly nation.
Page 489 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented...
Page 488 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 44 - ... of carrying it on, until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional. A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment.
Page 489 - River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 616 - Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his subsequent political career.
Page 454 - If I decide this case in favor of my own government, I must disavow its most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles, and adhere to that policy, I must surrender the case itself.