THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW VOL. CXII |
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... reader . It is probably to - day the most power- ful corporation in the world , as , indeed , it owns and operates one of the oldest of railroads . Its organization , as compared with that of its great rival , the New York Central ...
... reader . It is probably to - day the most power- ful corporation in the world , as , indeed , it owns and operates one of the oldest of railroads . Its organization , as compared with that of its great rival , the New York Central ...
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... readers . It may fairly be presumed that , under simi- lar circumstances , Professor Hegel might have acted simi- larly . As it was , however , his influence worked in the oppo- site direction . Metaphysical speculations became the ...
... readers . It may fairly be presumed that , under simi- lar circumstances , Professor Hegel might have acted simi- larly . As it was , however , his influence worked in the oppo- site direction . Metaphysical speculations became the ...
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... readers limited to no social class . A few years later ( 1831 ) Heine addressed to Count von Moltke a series of letters on the Ger- man aristocracy , under the title of Kahldorf über den Adel , so strongly democratic in tone that he ...
... readers limited to no social class . A few years later ( 1831 ) Heine addressed to Count von Moltke a series of letters on the Ger- man aristocracy , under the title of Kahldorf über den Adel , so strongly democratic in tone that he ...
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... readers regret that Shakespeare was left to his own unassisted barbarism when he wrote Hamlet's soliloquy on the same topic : -- " " T was in compassion of our woe That nature first made poisons grow , For hopeless wretches such as I ...
... readers regret that Shakespeare was left to his own unassisted barbarism when he wrote Hamlet's soliloquy on the same topic : -- " " T was in compassion of our woe That nature first made poisons grow , For hopeless wretches such as I ...
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... reader is happiest whose mind is broad enough to enjoy the natural school for its nature , and the artificial for its artificial- ity , provided they be only good of their kind . At any rate , we must allow that the man who can produce ...
... reader is happiest whose mind is broad enough to enjoy the natural school for its nature , and the artificial for its artificial- ity , provided they be only good of their kind . At any rate , we must allow that the man who can produce ...
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Page 204 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 205 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher Death, and God adore. What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined, from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 54 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.
Page 208 - Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.
Page 204 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die...
Page 204 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
Page 205 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 201 - Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins...
Page 194 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page 283 - I once before took leave to remind your Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.