The North American Review, Volume 54University of Northern Iowa, 1842 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... labor by the troops , to make these stations accessible to supplies , would , if they were all laid down on a map , cover the area like a net - work . Within the present year , the everglades , which occupy a vast space of the southern ...
... labor by the troops , to make these stations accessible to supplies , would , if they were all laid down on a map , cover the area like a net - work . Within the present year , the everglades , which occupy a vast space of the southern ...
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... labor and time necessary to its compilation ; " but was " fully satis- fied , however , from [ his ] own reflections on the subject , and the opinions of others conversant therewith , that , if all the clerks in the office , to the ...
... labor and time necessary to its compilation ; " but was " fully satis- fied , however , from [ his ] own reflections on the subject , and the opinions of others conversant therewith , that , if all the clerks in the office , to the ...
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... labor of that now at the disposal of those bureaus of the Department , by which the investigations would have principally to be made , are required to keep up the important and indispensable current business constantly press- ing upon ...
... labor of that now at the disposal of those bureaus of the Department , by which the investigations would have principally to be made , are required to keep up the important and indispensable current business constantly press- ing upon ...
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... labor which the document before us cost the various departments , to show what proportion of the millions in question has been ex- hausted on these mere externals of the war . Much has been said on the subject of expensive transporta ...
... labor which the document before us cost the various departments , to show what proportion of the millions in question has been ex- hausted on these mere externals of the war . Much has been said on the subject of expensive transporta ...
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... labor . By a resolution passed sixteen years since , the College was opened to students not candi- dates for a degree , and they were permitted to choose such studies as they preferred , and to pursue them exclusively . But they could ...
... labor . By a resolution passed sixteen years since , the College was opened to students not candi- dates for a degree , and they were permitted to choose such studies as they preferred , and to pursue them exclusively . But they could ...
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Page 318 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 482 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 309 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big, manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange, eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Page 245 - And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger as he that was born among them...
Page 515 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History ; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Page 308 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 312 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie...
Page 512 - The instruction derived from history thus written would be of a vivid and practical character. It would be received by the imagination as well as by the reason. It would be not merely traced on the mind, but branded into it. Many truths, too, would be learned, which can be learned in no other manner.
Page 379 - And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads : all this can I Truly deliver.
Page 308 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!