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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... existence of the middle class , however , as an active and ef- ficient one , is an important fact , and the true nature of their double relation to the aristocracy on the one hand , and to the people on the other , is one of the surest ...
... existence of the middle class , however , as an active and ef- ficient one , is an important fact , and the true nature of their double relation to the aristocracy on the one hand , and to the people on the other , is one of the surest ...
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... existence of the middle class , however , as an active and ef- ficient one , is an important fact , and the true nature of their double relation to the aristocracy on the one hand , and to the people on the other , is one of the surest ...
... existence of the middle class , however , as an active and ef- ficient one , is an important fact , and the true nature of their double relation to the aristocracy on the one hand , and to the people on the other , is one of the surest ...
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... existence of a middle class , unit- ing the aristocracy and the people by the accessions which it receives from each , and endowed with the activity and energy which fit it for efficient and appropriate action ; and in that progress of ...
... existence of a middle class , unit- ing the aristocracy and the people by the accessions which it receives from each , and endowed with the activity and energy which fit it for efficient and appropriate action ; and in that progress of ...
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... existence , related their struggles , exhibited their end . Turbulent Genoa , heroic Milan , mournful Pisa , prudent and powerful Venice , democratic Florence , and all those republics which , confined in a small space , had during a ...
... existence , related their struggles , exhibited their end . Turbulent Genoa , heroic Milan , mournful Pisa , prudent and powerful Venice , democratic Florence , and all those republics which , confined in a small space , had during a ...
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... existence . " He com- plains , however , that Sismondi has judged the state of man- ners and the actions of men in every age , not by estimating the ideas and the wants of that age , but according to a moral rule which is absolute and ...
... existence . " He com- plains , however , that Sismondi has judged the state of man- ners and the actions of men in every age , not by estimating the ideas and the wants of that age , but according to a moral rule which is absolute and ...
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Page 228 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
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.
Page 77 - Alike in the political and military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals : and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits ! an army employed in executing an arrest ! a town besieged on a note of hand ! a prince dethroned for the balance of an account ! Thus it was they exhibited a government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house — wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket...
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.
Page 215 - Livy. Selections from the first five books, together with the twenty-first and twenty-second books entire. With a Plan of Rome, and a Map of the Passage of Hannibal, and English Notes for the nse of Schools.
Page 68 - I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill. Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.
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...