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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... respect to its proprieties . Man has a claim to , and is a creature of , the earth , no less than birds and insects . We are placed here , not in the moon ; are workers , not simply spectators of land and sea ; are not all eye , but ...
... respect to its proprieties . Man has a claim to , and is a creature of , the earth , no less than birds and insects . We are placed here , not in the moon ; are workers , not simply spectators of land and sea ; are not all eye , but ...
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... whether all talk about the polite arts be not " in good part a temporary dilettante cloud - land of our poor century . " Yet there are peculiar respects in which the beautiful arts 28 [ July , A NATURAL THEOLOGY OF ART .
... whether all talk about the polite arts be not " in good part a temporary dilettante cloud - land of our poor century . " Yet there are peculiar respects in which the beautiful arts 28 [ July , A NATURAL THEOLOGY OF ART .
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... respects in which the beautiful arts are divine . All beauty is essentially so . And the several departments might be spoken of , for instance , music , of which a living writer says : " No other art can so depict to the eyes of the ...
... respects in which the beautiful arts are divine . All beauty is essentially so . And the several departments might be spoken of , for instance , music , of which a living writer says : " No other art can so depict to the eyes of the ...
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... respect . The question is now beginning to be agitated , whether the public good does not require the exclusive employment of incombustible materials in the construction of stores and other similar buildings in crowded streets , and it ...
... respect . The question is now beginning to be agitated , whether the public good does not require the exclusive employment of incombustible materials in the construction of stores and other similar buildings in crowded streets , and it ...
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... respecting the plans , and their reasons for or against each of them ; and then they are in a position to de- cide satisfactorily upon conflicting opinions . Their decision may be erroneous in many respects , but it will have the merit ...
... respecting the plans , and their reasons for or against each of them ; and then they are in a position to de- cide satisfactorily upon conflicting opinions . Their decision may be erroneous in many respects , but it will have the merit ...
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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.