The North American Review, Volume 131O. Everett, 1880 - 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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... existence and the crisis of our fate approached . In 1870 , when Mr. Bancroft's letter to the Chancellor of the Empire was published , in which he , as the representative of the United States , congratulated himself on having been an ...
... existence and the crisis of our fate approached . In 1870 , when Mr. Bancroft's letter to the Chancellor of the Empire was published , in which he , as the representative of the United States , congratulated himself on having been an ...
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... existence ; in the fourth place , that as the offspring of a dominant party or a par- ticular national mood , it would be always in danger , through a loss of power by the party , or a change of the national mood , of being overthrown ...
... existence ; in the fourth place , that as the offspring of a dominant party or a par- ticular national mood , it would be always in danger , through a loss of power by the party , or a change of the national mood , of being overthrown ...
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... existence of anti - American feeling in British Canada . I have pointed out its sources - the chief of which , United Empire Loyalism , is entirely natural and respectable , but is not likely to be permanent . In French Canada the ...
... existence of anti - American feeling in British Canada . I have pointed out its sources - the chief of which , United Empire Loyalism , is entirely natural and respectable , but is not likely to be permanent . In French Canada the ...
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... existence . The complication of her social life , even to the elaborate cuisine , may be read in the tombs of the kings and men of wealth . The skill of her jewelers in the eighteenth dynasty may be admired in the museum at Boulak . The ...
... existence . The complication of her social life , even to the elaborate cuisine , may be read in the tombs of the kings and men of wealth . The skill of her jewelers in the eighteenth dynasty may be admired in the museum at Boulak . The ...
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... existence in order that an equitable system of assessment should be established ; that it speedily assumed the function of criticising the demands which the Crown made on the subject ; that at an early date it made the grant of supply ...
... existence in order that an equitable system of assessment should be established ; that it speedily assumed the function of criticising the demands which the Crown made on the subject ; that at an early date it made the grant of supply ...
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Page 425 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy Slavery.
Page 425 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 36 - And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 325 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 388 - ... that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Page 30 - AND it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
Page 564 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 555 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 157 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 424 - ... of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to Its own judgment exclusively, Is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.