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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... present Premier than to any of his prede- cessors , and there is fair reason to believe that today he would receive a cordial welcome if circumstances should make advisable a visit to Berlin . His position in England , too , as well as ...
... present Premier than to any of his prede- cessors , and there is fair reason to believe that today he would receive a cordial welcome if circumstances should make advisable a visit to Berlin . His position in England , too , as well as ...
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... present . The future lies beyond my ken . But the official reports of the former British Adviser to the Egyptian Ministry of Public Works , Sir Murdoch Macdonald , have taught me two things : ( 1 ) the quantity of water in the Nile ...
... present . The future lies beyond my ken . But the official reports of the former British Adviser to the Egyptian Ministry of Public Works , Sir Murdoch Macdonald , have taught me two things : ( 1 ) the quantity of water in the Nile ...
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... present 5,200,000 acres are being tilled , it follows that in round figures 30 per cent . of this acreage is now under cotton culture . The crops produced since 1920 have been as follows : YEAR AMERICAN PRODUCTION 1920 ... 1921 .. 1922 ...
... present 5,200,000 acres are being tilled , it follows that in round figures 30 per cent . of this acreage is now under cotton culture . The crops produced since 1920 have been as follows : YEAR AMERICAN PRODUCTION 1920 ... 1921 .. 1922 ...
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... present requirements of Egypt and at the same time to irrigate the Gezira , it follows that the Southern States of America will be called upon within a few years to face an additional cotton supply of 2,160,000 American bales . In ...
... present requirements of Egypt and at the same time to irrigate the Gezira , it follows that the Southern States of America will be called upon within a few years to face an additional cotton supply of 2,160,000 American bales . In ...
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... present one , so that they are in no sense a reply to it , but are entirely independent con- siderations of the same subject ; the entire symposium forming a nationally com- prehensive estimate , pro and contra , of the Ku Klux Klan and ...
... present one , so that they are in no sense a reply to it , but are entirely independent con- siderations of the same subject ; the entire symposium forming a nationally com- prehensive estimate , pro and contra , of the Ku Klux Klan and ...
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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.