The North American Review, Volume 223Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, 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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... quickly to be caught and quite unverified by lips hidden behind a carefully stroked moustache . And yet to at least one painstaking observer it seemed to reveal humorous appraisal of something , 2 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... quickly to be caught and quite unverified by lips hidden behind a carefully stroked moustache . And yet to at least one painstaking observer it seemed to reveal humorous appraisal of something , 2 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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... least necessity for premeditation . He was not less distinguished for daring and resource in action : when engaged on any joint affairs , his superior competence marked him out as the leader for others to follow , and no business ...
... least necessity for premeditation . He was not less distinguished for daring and resource in action : when engaged on any joint affairs , his superior competence marked him out as the leader for others to follow , and no business ...
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... least of all to France . So perforce at this writing we must leave him striving persistently but , it would seem , hopelessly , to make bricks without straw . M. Briand's foreign problems are less pressing , but it is a mistake to ...
... least of all to France . So perforce at this writing we must leave him striving persistently but , it would seem , hopelessly , to make bricks without straw . M. Briand's foreign problems are less pressing , but it is a mistake to ...
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... least of a doubt and possibly a modification designed to serve equally , or at the worst partially , their artful purpose . Despite the active participation of the United States in con- structing the Treaty , it is unlikely that this ...
... least of a doubt and possibly a modification designed to serve equally , or at the worst partially , their artful purpose . Despite the active participation of the United States in con- structing the Treaty , it is unlikely that this ...
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... least a million more bales being thrown upon the market . I knew what this would do to the price of the raw product . I saw the reaction which this would have upon the economic wealth of the South . In order that I may make my meaning ...
... least a million more bales being thrown upon the market . I knew what this would do to the price of the raw product . I saw the reaction which this would have upon the economic wealth of the South . In order that I may make my meaning ...
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Page 283 - 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 313 - ... 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...
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Page 239 - 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 241 - 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 285 - 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 313 - ... 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 239 - All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.
Page 401 - The honor of my country shall never be stained by an apology from me for the statement of truth and the performance of duty; nor can I give any explanation of my official acts except such as is due to integrity and justice and consistent with the principles on which our institutions have been framed.