The North American Review, Volume 66Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1848 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... consider it as a crime or as a necessity , was still in many respects a misfor- tune for Italy , and chiefly so in that ill - advised restoration of the Western Empire , † which , by conferring upon a foreigner by birth and feeling the ...
... consider it as a crime or as a necessity , was still in many respects a misfor- tune for Italy , and chiefly so in that ill - advised restoration of the Western Empire , † which , by conferring upon a foreigner by birth and feeling the ...
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... consider what female influence is , how large a portion of almost every man's life is passed in the presence of mothers and sisters and wives , may we not count this , too , among the hopes of Italy ? We would hardly venture to assert ...
... consider what female influence is , how large a portion of almost every man's life is passed in the presence of mothers and sisters and wives , may we not count this , too , among the hopes of Italy ? We would hardly venture to assert ...
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... considering his duty to her as first in importance , declined the professorship . Obliged to seek occupation of some kind as a means of support , Sismondi now thought of entering upon public life , and of finding employment under the ...
... considering his duty to her as first in importance , declined the professorship . Obliged to seek occupation of some kind as a means of support , Sismondi now thought of entering upon public life , and of finding employment under the ...
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... consider as an excellence . He says , also , that we sometimes perceive the spirit of the Protestant and the republican citizen of Geneva in the severity of the historian towards Catholicism and royalty . But he concludes with the ...
... consider as an excellence . He says , also , that we sometimes perceive the spirit of the Protestant and the republican citizen of Geneva in the severity of the historian towards Catholicism and royalty . But he concludes with the ...
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... considering the mere production of wealth only as subsidiary to this end . His leading doctrine , that the distribution of riches is a matter even more important than their rapid increase , he illustrated by a vast collection of facts ...
... considering the mere production of wealth only as subsidiary to this end . His leading doctrine , that the distribution of riches is a matter even more important than their rapid increase , he illustrated by a vast collection of facts ...
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Page 442 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 204 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 203 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
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Page 443 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
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Page 211 - And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape ; Twinkling...