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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... once because his contemporaries wearied of hearing him called " the Just " and the Frenchman many times as a consequence of com- binations against him of rivals who could not match his fairness of mind and sweetness of disposition ; and ...
... once because his contemporaries wearied of hearing him called " the Just " and the Frenchman many times as a consequence of com- binations against him of rivals who could not match his fairness of mind and sweetness of disposition ; and ...
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... once he has connived at resignation simply because he was bored and wanted to withdraw to his little farm in Normandy and recline for hours under trees lining the banks of a tiny stream , apparently fishing but actually smoking and ...
... once he has connived at resignation simply because he was bored and wanted to withdraw to his little farm in Normandy and recline for hours under trees lining the banks of a tiny stream , apparently fishing but actually smoking and ...
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... once taken in hand may lead them , M. Briand never can tell what he is going to say when he rises to speak . Intuition furnishes the key , memory the facts , logic the argument , and a veritable gift the persuasive ex- pression which ...
... once taken in hand may lead them , M. Briand never can tell what he is going to say when he rises to speak . Intuition furnishes the key , memory the facts , logic the argument , and a veritable gift the persuasive ex- pression which ...
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... once been highly cultivated was abandoned . To quote the graphic language of Lord Cromer , " there was not a dog to howl for a lost master . Industry had vanished ; oppression had driven the inhabitants from the soil . The entire ...
... once been highly cultivated was abandoned . To quote the graphic language of Lord Cromer , " there was not a dog to howl for a lost master . Industry had vanished ; oppression had driven the inhabitants from the soil . The entire ...
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... once it is started on the high road to wealth . If this eventuality of increased cotton acreage comes about , it will spell ruin for the American cotton planter , not tomorrow perhaps but before the young men of today shall have passed ...
... once it is started on the high road to wealth . If this eventuality of increased cotton acreage comes about , it will spell ruin for the American cotton planter , not tomorrow perhaps but before the young men of today shall have passed ...
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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...
Page 682 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
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.