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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... give up the contest . We do not count the cost which produced this result as having been disproportioned to the object in view , and this expenditure may therefore be regarded as having been pru- dently and properly applied . In these ...
... give up the contest . We do not count the cost which produced this result as having been disproportioned to the object in view , and this expenditure may therefore be regarded as having been pru- dently and properly applied . In these ...
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... give up thereby nearly one half of the amount of mathe- matical knowledge , which was formerly requisite for a degree . The study of the ancient languages , on the old system , ex- tended through three years of the undergraduate course ...
... give up thereby nearly one half of the amount of mathe- matical knowledge , which was formerly requisite for a degree . The study of the ancient languages , on the old system , ex- tended through three years of the undergraduate course ...
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... give as full a summary , as our limits will permit , of the arguments in favor of the scheme , and then endeavour to ... gives a brief but able argument in favor of the plan , considered from a somewhat different point of view . The ...
... give as full a summary , as our limits will permit , of the arguments in favor of the scheme , and then endeavour to ... gives a brief but able argument in favor of the plan , considered from a somewhat different point of view . The ...
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... give them a degree also , and in this way " open the University to a larger class of persons . It is further urged , that the effect of the new scheme , instead of depressing the standard of classical learning at Cambridge , will be to ...
... give them a degree also , and in this way " open the University to a larger class of persons . It is further urged , that the effect of the new scheme , instead of depressing the standard of classical learning at Cambridge , will be to ...
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... give offence to a most important portion of the community . " It would be unwise and improper to make the only certificate of having received a college education de- pend on a greater proficiency in some branch of learning , than what ...
... give offence to a most important portion of the community . " It would be unwise and improper to make the only certificate of having received a college education de- pend on a greater proficiency in some branch of learning , than what ...
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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!