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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... Humanity shudders at the idea of excluding a people from the pale of civilized warfare . But there are cases when mercy itself pleads for justice . The Indians have not made a white captive in this contest . All who have fallen into ...
... Humanity shudders at the idea of excluding a people from the pale of civilized warfare . But there are cases when mercy itself pleads for justice . The Indians have not made a white captive in this contest . All who have fallen into ...
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... humanity and kindness , and denied nothing but the liberty of returning to the wastes of Florida . And all of them are now peacefully occupying their new homes beyond the Mississippi , instead of sharing in the harassed , hunted , and ...
... humanity and kindness , and denied nothing but the liberty of returning to the wastes of Florida . And all of them are now peacefully occupying their new homes beyond the Mississippi , instead of sharing in the harassed , hunted , and ...
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... human nature , and in the relations of college life , which are conservative of the affection for the classics , and which you can no more generally eradi- cate , than you can annihilate emulation , pride , love of distinc- tion , taste ...
... human nature , and in the relations of college life , which are conservative of the affection for the classics , and which you can no more generally eradi- cate , than you can annihilate emulation , pride , love of distinc- tion , taste ...
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... human voice ever played , the most flexible and copious in expressing all the workings of intellect and the modifications of passion , more cunning in its structure than any other on which the grammarian and the philosopher have ever ...
... human voice ever played , the most flexible and copious in expressing all the workings of intellect and the modifications of passion , more cunning in its structure than any other on which the grammarian and the philosopher have ever ...
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... human memory would hold them . But science has arranged them all under three hundred and fifty - five sur- names , requiring only a few other terms , like Christian names , to indicate the various kinds . Thus , the single word Cole ...
... human memory would hold them . But science has arranged them all under three hundred and fifty - five sur- names , requiring only a few other terms , like Christian names , to indicate the various kinds . Thus , the single word Cole ...
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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.