The North American Review, Volume 79Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1854 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... beauty and fitness , or , if they do , that the glory of it belongs to man , not to his Maker . Natural Theology has taken it for granted , that its inquiries are limited to unmodified nature ; and , ac- cordingly , the theologian ...
... beauty and fitness , or , if they do , that the glory of it belongs to man , not to his Maker . Natural Theology has taken it for granted , that its inquiries are limited to unmodified nature ; and , ac- cordingly , the theologian ...
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... beauty , or use the wonderful power , of these objects . We behold it in the ores , the fire and sand , but are too deaf to hear it in the musical , graceful result brought forth from those formless materials , a heavenly - sounding ...
... beauty , or use the wonderful power , of these objects . We behold it in the ores , the fire and sand , but are too deaf to hear it in the musical , graceful result brought forth from those formless materials , a heavenly - sounding ...
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... beauty inherent in every form of matter . - Everything in nature fulfils one or more purposes , in its original state . Thus a cloud is a curtain of shade , a shield against frost , a cistern of showers , and a vision of glory . But ...
... beauty inherent in every form of matter . - Everything in nature fulfils one or more purposes , in its original state . Thus a cloud is a curtain of shade , a shield against frost , a cistern of showers , and a vision of glory . But ...
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... beauty , yet the higher human purpose served lends a higher beauty ; so that an unsightly telegraph- pole may be more noble than the tree from which it was formed , and a city may be grander than a forest . It is no new sentiment that ...
... beauty , yet the higher human purpose served lends a higher beauty ; so that an unsightly telegraph- pole may be more noble than the tree from which it was formed , and a city may be grander than a forest . It is no new sentiment that ...
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... beauty as royal as that of a flowery field , and a dignity as great as that of a courtier's mantle spread in the pathway of a queen . All the kingdoms of nature , the animal , vegetable , and mineral , lend their contributions to a ...
... beauty as royal as that of a flowery field , and a dignity as great as that of a courtier's mantle spread in the pathway of a queen . All the kingdoms of nature , the animal , vegetable , and mineral , lend their contributions to a ...
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Page 468 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Page 270 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 468 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 39 - The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught ear, The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's hurried time, Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife, are here.
Page 253 - The Evidences of Christianity as Exhibited in the Writings of its Apologists down to Augustine. An Essay which obtained the Hulsean Prize for the Year 1852. By WJ BOLTON, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Page 24 - Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
Page 277 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies;' And ' dust to dust
Page 39 - Nor mine the seer-like power to show The secrets of the heart and mind ; To drop the plummet-line below Our common world of joy and woe, A more intense despair or brighter hope to find.
Page 468 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 264 - Including a full Examination of that Writer's Criticism on the Character of Christ ; and a Chapter on the Aspects and Pretensions of Modern Deism. Second Edition, revised.