The North American Review, Volume 19Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1824 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... hands might have wrought into a treatise almost unequalled in interest and utility , we think that any common man , who reads this book , will become wiser , better , greater , and happier , and will particularly be convinced that every ...
... hands might have wrought into a treatise almost unequalled in interest and utility , we think that any common man , who reads this book , will become wiser , better , greater , and happier , and will particularly be convinced that every ...
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... hands of youth , on a very extended and improved plan of some of our easy systems of logic , which shall reveal to the ... hand , the species may yet hope to exist , and , on the other , how long the circulation of the blood has been ...
... hands of youth , on a very extended and improved plan of some of our easy systems of logic , which shall reveal to the ... hand , the species may yet hope to exist , and , on the other , how long the circulation of the blood has been ...
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... hand , abstracted from them . According to the extensive scope of the views of Dr Brown , the Philosophy of the Human Mind comprehends the follow- ing subjects . I. Mental Physiology . II . General Ethics . III . Politics . IV . Natural ...
... hand , abstracted from them . According to the extensive scope of the views of Dr Brown , the Philosophy of the Human Mind comprehends the follow- ing subjects . I. Mental Physiology . II . General Ethics . III . Politics . IV . Natural ...
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... hand from its usual position . We allow , with our author , that muscular pressure gives almost even the new- born infant a perfect notion of one element of our complex idea of matter , that is , resistance . But we think Dr Brown ...
... hand from its usual position . We allow , with our author , that muscular pressure gives almost even the new- born infant a perfect notion of one element of our complex idea of matter , that is , resistance . But we think Dr Brown ...
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... hand , it is the removal of the fount of infant life from his lips , that reveals to him the secret of something foreign to himself , and convinces him that all existence is not involved in his own , and teaches him the first of that ...
... hand , it is the removal of the fount of infant life from his lips , that reveals to him the secret of something foreign to himself , and convinces him that all existence is not involved in his own , and teaches him the first of that ...
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Page 276 - Congress under this clause to provide "that whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in Imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, It shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth such number of the militia of the state or states most convenient to the place .of danger, or scene of action, as he may Judge necessary to repel such Invasion, and to issue his order for that purpose to such officer or officers of the militia as he shall think...
Page 338 - Know that this theory is false; his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Man shall descry another hemisphere. Since to one common centre all things tend, So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres.
Page 129 - ... not be imported into the United Kingdom to be used therein, except in British ships, or in ships of the country of which the goods are the produce, or in ships of the country from which the goods are imported, (a) Goods of Goods, the produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imported or America?
Page 219 - Some years ago, in better times than the present, a ship left one of the towns of New England with 70,000 specie dollars. She proceeded to Mocha, on the Red Sea, and there laid out these dollars in coffee, drugs, spices, and other articles procured in that market.
Page 440 - We rejoice that every man in this community may call all property his own, so far as he has occasion for it to furnish for himself and his children the blessings of religious instruction and the elements of knowledge. This celestial and this earthly light, he is entitled to by the fundamental laws. It is every poor man's undoubted birth-right; it is the great blessing which this constitution has secured to him; it is his solace in life; and it may...
Page 21 - There is an original tendency or susceptibility of the mind, by which, on perceiving together different objects, we are instantly, without the intervention of any other mental process, sensible of their relation in certain respects...
Page 440 - We hope to continue and prolong the time, when, in the villages and farm-houses of New England, there may be undisturbed sleep within unbarred doors. And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will...
Page 332 - Avignon ; and it was in the same city, on the sixth of the very same month of April, at the very same hour in the morning, in the year 1348, that this bright luminary was withdrawn from our sight, when I was at Verona, alas ! ignorant of my calamity. The remains of her chaste and beautiful body were deposited in the Church of the Cordeliers on the evening of the same day.
Page 231 - ... by confinement in the impure atmosphere of crowded rooms, by the particles of metallic or vegetable dust which they are continually inhaling; or they live to grow up without decency, without comfort, and without hope, without morals, without religion, and without shame, and bring forth slaves like themselves to tread in the same path of misery.
Page 244 - Through the dewy arbor peeping, Where beauty's child, the frowning world forgot, To youth's devoted tale is listening, Rapture on her dark lash glistening, While fairies leave their cowslip cells and guard the happy spot.