The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 23

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Review of Reviews, 1901 - American literature

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Page 195 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hands of God.
Page 335 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government ; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people.
Page 192 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 483 - It rose, according to our estimate, 600 feet above the water, and, from the point we viewed it, presented a pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake...
Page 204 - no money on account of pension shall be paid to any person, or to the widow, children, or heirs of any deceased person, who in any manner voluntarily engaged in or aided or abetted the late rebellion against the authority of the United States.
Page 39 - ... and lamp-post and big and little sign by heart, and know them so accurately that you can instantly name the one you are abreast of when you are set down at random in that street in the middle of an inky black night, you will then have a tolerable notion of the amount and the exactness of a pilot's knowledge who carries the Mississippi River in his head.
Page 553 - My Double and How He Undid Me,"
Page 196 - ... irritation of men's minds in Great Britain, and the discordant state of society on political accounts, is not known there. The government is the government of the people and for the people.
Page 505 - Hall of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, ca.
Page 446 - Section 1. The officers of the association shall be a president, a vice president, a secretary, a treasurer, and an executive committee composed of five members to be appointed by the president.

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