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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... establish this discrimination , we answer , for the credit of the nation . If these six millions , which we assign to the Creek and Cherokee wars , were really expended on those accounts , there was something like an adequate occasion ...
... establish this discrimination , we answer , for the credit of the nation . If these six millions , which we assign to the Creek and Cherokee wars , were really expended on those accounts , there was something like an adequate occasion ...
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... established , and the range of former ones has been widely increased . Till very recently Civil History was hardly studied at all in the Col- lege . Now a course in it extends through the whole four years . Several branches of Natural ...
... established , and the range of former ones has been widely increased . Till very recently Civil History was hardly studied at all in the Col- lege . Now a course in it extends through the whole four years . Several branches of Natural ...
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... established . The change , unless we greatly err , was not desired by the great body of the community , who feel little interest in the conduct of the College , being affected only by its more remote results . And they are wise enough ...
... established . The change , unless we greatly err , was not desired by the great body of the community , who feel little interest in the conduct of the College , being affected only by its more remote results . And they are wise enough ...
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... established that they are , on the whole , entitled to their name . They have no resemblance to locusts in their destructive propensities , which is owing not to any uncommon forbear- ance on their part , but to the structure of their ...
... established that they are , on the whole , entitled to their name . They have no resemblance to locusts in their destructive propensities , which is owing not to any uncommon forbear- ance on their part , but to the structure of their ...
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... establishing these points , we maintain that his mode of reasoning is the only correct and satisfactory one , that has ever been proposed . Of course , the argument is his only by adoption ; for it is substantially the same with that of ...
... establishing these points , we maintain that his mode of reasoning is the only correct and satisfactory one , that has ever been proposed . Of course , the argument is his only by adoption ; for it is substantially the same with that of ...
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Page 454 - 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 274 - 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 278 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 215 - 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 275 - 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 510 - THE MEDICAL FORMULARY: being a Collection of Prescriptions, derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians of America and Europe. Together with the usual Dietetic Preparations and Antidotes for Poisons. To which is added an Appendix, on the Endermic u-se of Medicines, and on the use of Ether and Chloroform.
Page 274 - 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 327 - 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 274 - 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!
Page 481 - The cause of government was ably vindicated by Lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master of debate, who could wield with equal dexterity the arms of reason and of ridicule.