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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... ment , but the old phrases and allusions , which were so sweet and heart - breathing with the innocent , are still preserved by the impure . Though they renounce the severer morals and decencies , they have still an easy , flaunting ...
... ment , but the old phrases and allusions , which were so sweet and heart - breathing with the innocent , are still preserved by the impure . Though they renounce the severer morals and decencies , they have still an easy , flaunting ...
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... ments , both of ancient and modern Europe , this influence has always predominated over all others . If circumstances place the direction of publick affairs naturally in the hands of one of these military spirits he becomes a conqueror ...
... ments , both of ancient and modern Europe , this influence has always predominated over all others . If circumstances place the direction of publick affairs naturally in the hands of one of these military spirits he becomes a conqueror ...
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... ments . These , though generally in prose , come for all moral purposes under the description of poetry , and thus military virtues have already ceased to be the sole objects of interest in fictitious narration . The principal poets of ...
... ments . These , though generally in prose , come for all moral purposes under the description of poetry , and thus military virtues have already ceased to be the sole objects of interest in fictitious narration . The principal poets of ...
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... ments . And as we conceive this last - mentioned cause , to wit , the interest of persons connected with military ... ment for keeping up in the publick mind an opinion of the ne- cessity and expediency of religion . The first efficient ...
... ments . And as we conceive this last - mentioned cause , to wit , the interest of persons connected with military ... ment for keeping up in the publick mind an opinion of the ne- cessity and expediency of religion . The first efficient ...
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... the attempt to put an end to it is benevolent and judicious , and deserves the approbation and encourage- ment of the friends of humanity . We beg leave therefore , by way of general summary 44 [ Nov. Peace Societies .
... the attempt to put an end to it is benevolent and judicious , and deserves the approbation and encourage- ment of the friends of humanity . We beg leave therefore , by way of general summary 44 [ Nov. Peace Societies .
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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...