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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... proof that nothing but the strong arm of power could enforce the treaty ; that persuasion was unavailing ; that peaceful submission was at an end . Was this power provided ? Mr. Everett says it was not . General Clinch , who was the ...
... proof that nothing but the strong arm of power could enforce the treaty ; that persuasion was unavailing ; that peaceful submission was at an end . Was this power provided ? Mr. Everett says it was not . General Clinch , who was the ...
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... proof publicly given , that the standard has been attained . Such a use of the word is certainly allowable in the looseness of con- versation , as when we speak of the patterns or models , made by Mr. Hassler for the American government ...
... proof publicly given , that the standard has been attained . Such a use of the word is certainly allowable in the looseness of con- versation , as when we speak of the patterns or models , made by Mr. Hassler for the American government ...
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... proof varnish , which protects them from the weather . When the leaves expand in the spring , the caterpillars are ready to begin their opera- tions . The first is to form an angular web , resembling that of a spider , stretched on the ...
... proof varnish , which protects them from the weather . When the leaves expand in the spring , the caterpillars are ready to begin their opera- tions . The first is to form an angular web , resembling that of a spider , stretched on the ...
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... Proofs of the Author's Erudition . " This same quality of perfect honesty , this for- getfulness of self , and entire devotion to the avowed object , whether it be the pursuit of truth , or the inculcation of virtue , can be attributed ...
... Proofs of the Author's Erudition . " This same quality of perfect honesty , this for- getfulness of self , and entire devotion to the avowed object , whether it be the pursuit of truth , or the inculcation of virtue , can be attributed ...
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... proof . Besides , we cannot go behind the Divine existence in order to find a basis of proof ; we cannot assume a more comprehen- sive proposition , from which the fact itself can be deduced . We must reason upward to the first ...
... proof . Besides , we cannot go behind the Divine existence in order to find a basis of proof ; we cannot assume a more comprehen- sive proposition , from which the fact itself can be deduced . We must reason upward to the first ...
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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!