The North American Review, Volume 33O. Everett, 1831 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... mind as a means of torture , and thus given a finer moral coloring to the picture . One example only of this oc- curs to us ; that of the counterfeiter Adamo , who sharpens the sting of remorse , by contrasting his present dismal abode ...
... mind as a means of torture , and thus given a finer moral coloring to the picture . One example only of this oc- curs to us ; that of the counterfeiter Adamo , who sharpens the sting of remorse , by contrasting his present dismal abode ...
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... mind . The most agreeable of these to him- self , though , perhaps , to few of his readers , was metaphysical polemics . He had , unfortunately , in his youth , gained a prize for successful disputation at the schools , and in every ...
... mind . The most agreeable of these to him- self , though , perhaps , to few of his readers , was metaphysical polemics . He had , unfortunately , in his youth , gained a prize for successful disputation at the schools , and in every ...
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... minds . Milton , in solitude and darkness , from the cheerful ways of men cut off , was obliged to seek inwardly that celestial light , which , as he pathetically laments , was denied to him from without . Hence his poem breathes a ...
... minds . Milton , in solitude and darkness , from the cheerful ways of men cut off , was obliged to seek inwardly that celestial light , which , as he pathetically laments , was denied to him from without . Hence his poem breathes a ...
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... mind he worshipped . There is something affecting in seeing such a mind as Petrarch's feeding on this unrequited passion , and more than twenty years after his mis- tress's death , and when on the verge of the grave himself , de ...
... mind he worshipped . There is something affecting in seeing such a mind as Petrarch's feeding on this unrequited passion , and more than twenty years after his mis- tress's death , and when on the verge of the grave himself , de ...
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... minds understood well the difference between copying the ancients , and copying nature . They knew that to write by the rules of the former , is not to write like them ; that the genius of our institutions requires new and peculiar ...
... minds understood well the difference between copying the ancients , and copying nature . They knew that to write by the rules of the former , is not to write like them ; that the genius of our institutions requires new and peculiar ...
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Page 259 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz.: that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of Saint Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the north westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 142 - If courts were permitted to indulge their sympathies, a case better calculated to excite them can scarcely be imagined. A people once numerous, powerful, and truly independent, found by our ancestors in the quiet and uncontrolled possession of an ample domain, gradually sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts, and our arms, have yielded their lands by successive treaties, each of which contains a solemn guarantee of the residue, until they retain no more of their formerly extensive territory...
Page 245 - ... this day — it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man, and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man...
Page 140 - regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 291 - Nor I alone — a thousand bosoms round / Inhale thee in the fulness of delight ; And languid forms rise up, and pulses bound Livelier, at coming of the wind of night ; And, languishing to hear thy grateful sound, Lies the vast inland stretched beyond the sight. Go forth into the gathering shade ; go forth, God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth...
Page 260 - to the westward, although our said province hath " anciently extended, and doth of right extend, as " far as the River Pentagoet or Penobscot, it shall "be bounded by a line drawn from Cape Sable " across the entrance of the Bay of Fundy to the " mouth of the River St. Croix, by the said river to " its source, and by a line drawn due north from "thence to the [southern boundary of our Colony
Page 129 - No Newton, by silent meditation, now discovers the system of the world from the falling of an apple; but some quite other than Newton stands in his Museum, his Scientific Institution, and behind whole batteries of retorts, digesters, and galvanic piles imperatively ' interrogates Nature,' —who, however, shows no haste to answer.
Page 188 - My lords and gentlemen, I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution. ' I have been induced to resort to this measure for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people...
Page 291 - Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow. Go — but the circle of eternal change, Which is the life of Nature, shall restore, With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range, Thee to thy birthplace of the deep once more ; Sweet odors in the sea-air, sweet and strange, Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore ; And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream.
Page 301 - The Spring is here,— the delicate-footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers ; And with it comes a thirst to be away, Wasting in wood-paths its voluptuous hours, — A feeling that is like a sense of wings, Restless to soar above these perishing things.