North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 6Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge University of Northern Iowa, 1818 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... labours , who travels to a distant country , by books only , for scenes , characters , sentiments , and all his poetical materials . But we are obliged to take an abrupt leave of our poet , having read his book and pursued our labour ...
... labours , who travels to a distant country , by books only , for scenes , characters , sentiments , and all his poetical materials . But we are obliged to take an abrupt leave of our poet , having read his book and pursued our labour ...
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... directly against our interest - and in the offensive part of defensive war , we shall always labour under a disadvantage in com- parison with nations that tolerate extensive military estab- lishments . 26 [ Nov. Peace Societies .
... directly against our interest - and in the offensive part of defensive war , we shall always labour under a disadvantage in com- parison with nations that tolerate extensive military estab- lishments . 26 [ Nov. Peace Societies .
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... laboured under the severe hostility of these courts , and had to maintain an arduous struggle even for existence . Under such circumstances its judgments and opinions carried little weight in Westminster hall ; for few were willing to ...
... laboured under the severe hostility of these courts , and had to maintain an arduous struggle even for existence . Under such circumstances its judgments and opinions carried little weight in Westminster hall ; for few were willing to ...
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... labour , or to exercise less diligence , than formerly , in order to obtain a mastery of the science ; or that there is little uncertainty in applying it to the solution of those questions , which perpetually arise in human transactions ...
... labour , or to exercise less diligence , than formerly , in order to obtain a mastery of the science ; or that there is little uncertainty in applying it to the solution of those questions , which perpetually arise in human transactions ...
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... labour which was necessary to accomplish this arduous task ; and we well know that what works did not then supply ... labours of a modern student , if he means to attain eminence , must be infinitely greater . To be a sound The other ...
... labour which was necessary to accomplish this arduous task ; and we well know that what works did not then supply ... labours of a modern student , if he means to attain eminence , must be infinitely greater . To be a sound The other ...
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Page 383 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy...
Page 383 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 119 - 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 314 - If we wish to be free ; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, — we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, —...
Page 314 - and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation ? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love ? 2.
Page 119 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 314 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication...
Page 314 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them ? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Page 313 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 21 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour when storms are gone, When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity...