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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... means ; wood , metal , and dried sinew must conspire with mind and hand , before Nature can do justice to her own genius ; and , certainly , Art alone can bring out the splendid nature of the human voice . And the painting , next , that ...
... means ; wood , metal , and dried sinew must conspire with mind and hand , before Nature can do justice to her own genius ; and , certainly , Art alone can bring out the splendid nature of the human voice . And the painting , next , that ...
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... means of bees . To adopt Paley's illustration , let it be supposed that Ericsson had in- vented a machine which would itself have invented caloric engines and a thousand other novelties of genius and inge- nuity ; all the glory of every ...
... means of bees . To adopt Paley's illustration , let it be supposed that Ericsson had in- vented a machine which would itself have invented caloric engines and a thousand other novelties of genius and inge- nuity ; all the glory of every ...
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... means , all needed books , pictures , and inventions find authors for themselves . - War , vice , sin , —these alone really deface and destroy , and these occur by some just permission of Providence . But the subjection of matter to any ...
... means , all needed books , pictures , and inventions find authors for themselves . - War , vice , sin , —these alone really deface and destroy , and these occur by some just permission of Providence . But the subjection of matter to any ...
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... means of men wonderfully made for the work , -a wonder doubly divine . Let us look not only through telescope and microscope , but also at the instru- ments themselves , to behold the All - glorious . The sound of bell and organ , and ...
... means of men wonderfully made for the work , -a wonder doubly divine . Let us look not only through telescope and microscope , but also at the instru- ments themselves , to behold the All - glorious . The sound of bell and organ , and ...
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... means the two houses of Parliament , and the Westminster Assembly of Divines and Laymen , were induced to meet , for the purpose of signifying their concurrence . At this point , we find John White , the minister , [ also of the Company ...
... means the two houses of Parliament , and the Westminster Assembly of Divines and Laymen , were induced to meet , for the purpose of signifying their concurrence . At this point , we find John White , the minister , [ also of the Company ...
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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.