The North American Review, Volume 64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 70
... labor and time . His habit of composition , too , was laborious and slow ; it never became easier by practice , but , as he told Mr. Stewart not long before his death , he always wrote with the same difficulty as at first ; or , perhaps ...
... labor and time . His habit of composition , too , was laborious and slow ; it never became easier by practice , but , as he told Mr. Stewart not long before his death , he always wrote with the same difficulty as at first ; or , perhaps ...
Page 77
... labor of biographers by giving some sketch of his own life and mind . There is some danger of partiality in these ac- counts , and they cannot always be implicitly trusted ; not from any disposition to mislead on the part of the writers ...
... labor of biographers by giving some sketch of his own life and mind . There is some danger of partiality in these ac- counts , and they cannot always be implicitly trusted ; not from any disposition to mislead on the part of the writers ...
Page 80
... labor with his mind or hands , and he can hardly bear the weight of existence ; if he is not under any such necessity , he must supply the want of it for himself ; and this was done by Gibbon , with equal wisdom and success . His great ...
... labor with his mind or hands , and he can hardly bear the weight of existence ; if he is not under any such necessity , he must supply the want of it for himself ; and this was done by Gibbon , with equal wisdom and success . His great ...
Page 188
... labor among industrious and learned men . Mr. Worcester inserted the words from Walker's dic- tionary which were not contained in Chalmers ; and when he perceived defects in Chalmers , which it was important to supply , in respect to ...
... labor among industrious and learned men . Mr. Worcester inserted the words from Walker's dic- tionary which were not contained in Chalmers ; and when he perceived defects in Chalmers , which it was important to supply , in respect to ...
Page 189
... labor of applying them to most of the new words was , in a manner , mechanical , requiring only careful atten- tion . But , as he justly remarked in his Preface , " a con- siderable number of the additional words , some of them . words ...
... labor of applying them to most of the new words was , in a manner , mechanical , requiring only careful atten- tion . But , as he justly remarked in his Preface , " a con- siderable number of the additional words , some of them . words ...
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