The North American Review, Volume 223Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1926 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... called the world . A massive head covered by curly black hair that straggled over his collar ; a long drooping moustache incessantly stroked , not nervously but caressingly , by a hand so small and soft and white that it would befit ...
... called the world . A massive head covered by curly black hair that straggled over his collar ; a long drooping moustache incessantly stroked , not nervously but caressingly , by a hand so small and soft and white that it would befit ...
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... called " the Just " and the Frenchman many times as a consequence of com- binations against him of rivals who could not match his fairness of mind and sweetness of disposition ; and both were recalled , Aristides once and Aristide seven ...
... called " the Just " and the Frenchman many times as a consequence of com- binations against him of rivals who could not match his fairness of mind and sweetness of disposition ; and both were recalled , Aristides once and Aristide seven ...
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... called France ; it will be called Europe in the twentieth century , and later , still more transfigured , it will be called Humanity . " Was this vision truly prophetic ? Did it foreshadow an apostle ? Who can say ? One fact is positive ...
... called France ; it will be called Europe in the twentieth century , and later , still more transfigured , it will be called Humanity . " Was this vision truly prophetic ? Did it foreshadow an apostle ? Who can say ? One fact is positive ...
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... called by my official duties to live in the valley of the Nile , I think in terms of cotton . As soon as I heard that Lord Allenby , then British High Commissioner at Cairo , had issued orders that the Sudan Government was authorized to ...
... called by my official duties to live in the valley of the Nile , I think in terms of cotton . As soon as I heard that Lord Allenby , then British High Commissioner at Cairo , had issued orders that the Sudan Government was authorized to ...
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... called a spade , when an honorable man was entitled to curse , and when the strongest language was the only appropriate mode of speech . Lord Allenby rose to the occasion , as he has risen to every emergency which it has been his lot to ...
... called a spade , when an honorable man was entitled to curse , and when the strongest language was the only appropriate mode of speech . Lord Allenby rose to the occasion , as he has risen to every emergency which it has been his lot to ...
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Page 279 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Page 309 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 235 - The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities.
Page 526 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Page 237 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 281 - As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes...
Page 309 - ... truth is great and will prevail, if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them...
Page 235 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 564 - ... their actings bring real good to their country, yet men primarily considered that their own and their country's interest was united and did not act from a principle of benevolence. "That fewer still in public affairs act with a view to the good of mankind.
Page 254 - The High Contracting Parties agree to submit to arbitration all claims for pecuniary loss or damage which may be presented by their respective citizens and which cannot be amicably adjusted through diplomatic channels, when said claims are of sufficient importance to warrant the expense of arbitration.