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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... object . The war , without these extraneous aids , would probably have been about where it is now , at least no further from its beginning , and as near to its end . But the expense would have been immeasurably different . The regular ...
... object . The war , without these extraneous aids , would probably have been about where it is now , at least no further from its beginning , and as near to its end . But the expense would have been immeasurably different . The regular ...
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... objects at once , nor conducted in such a manner , that the in- jury arising from ill success should be in great part irrepara- ble . The voluntary system might be more safely applied to the study of Latin and Greek , if the experience ...
... objects at once , nor conducted in such a manner , that the in- jury arising from ill success should be in great part irrepara- ble . The voluntary system might be more safely applied to the study of Latin and Greek , if the experience ...
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... objects held in view by the authors of the new system , is to increase the number of students in the College ; or , in other words , to render it more popular . It seems , that many will not join the institution , even with the ...
... objects held in view by the authors of the new system , is to increase the number of students in the College ; or , in other words , to render it more popular . It seems , that many will not join the institution , even with the ...
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... object and ten- dency of the new system is to elevate , and not to depress ; to introduce more thorough and exact attainment , and to make the knowledge of the classics more profound ; they will find that their prejudices in favor of ...
... object and ten- dency of the new system is to elevate , and not to depress ; to introduce more thorough and exact attainment , and to make the knowledge of the classics more profound ; they will find that their prejudices in favor of ...
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... object and appointed limits of these seminaries . It is to place them on the same footing with common schools . We ... object of colleges and universities is , to give the best possible education to a few . The object of the common ...
... object and appointed limits of these seminaries . It is to place them on the same footing with common schools . We ... object of colleges and universities is , to give the best possible education to a few . The object of the common ...
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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!