The North American Review, Volume 132University of Northern Iowa, 1881 - 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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... exercises a large influence , not only as assisting to form just and prudent policies and measures , and , by superior reasons stated with mighty eloquence , bringing majorities of intelligent citizens to unite in their support , but ...
... exercises a large influence , not only as assisting to form just and prudent policies and measures , and , by superior reasons stated with mighty eloquence , bringing majorities of intelligent citizens to unite in their support , but ...
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... exercising the rights of suffrage , either by promising the favor of one candidate or traducing the character of another , is an offense equally injurious to moral rectitude and civil liberty . " These golden words are as true in 1880 ...
... exercising the rights of suffrage , either by promising the favor of one candidate or traducing the character of another , is an offense equally injurious to moral rectitude and civil liberty . " These golden words are as true in 1880 ...
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... exercise of our powers . No repression and no resentment are in order . We have quietly assumed in our discussion that our own faith is correct , and that the faithlessness of atheism is weakness and error . While our language fittingly ...
... exercise of our powers . No repression and no resentment are in order . We have quietly assumed in our discussion that our own faith is correct , and that the faithlessness of atheism is weakness and error . While our language fittingly ...
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... exercise over the nation , and to show how this tyranny may be resisted . It does not follow that , because the initiative in political matters must be taken by somebody , it therefore should be taken by the precise men who now take it ...
... exercise over the nation , and to show how this tyranny may be resisted . It does not follow that , because the initiative in political matters must be taken by somebody , it therefore should be taken by the precise men who now take it ...
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... exercise by a nation of its reserved powers in a very unex- pected manner . Two of the most striking are furnished by recent English politics . In the year 1874 , Mr. Gladstone made a sudden appeal to the people , and , in an address to ...
... exercise by a nation of its reserved powers in a very unex- pected manner . Two of the most striking are furnished by recent English politics . In the year 1874 , Mr. Gladstone made a sudden appeal to the people , and , in an address to ...
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Page 346 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large.
Page 501 - Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low ; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Page 356 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 21 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will...
Page 138 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 404 - Once as I told in glee Tales of the stormy sea, Soft eyes did gaze on me, Burning yet tender ; And as the white stars shine On the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor.
Page 414 - Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Page 575 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 414 - And the powers of the General Government, and of the State, although both exist and are exercised within the same territorial limits, are yet separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres.
Page 143 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.