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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... writers , among them the unassuming novice who now sits before you , never know where pens 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 ...
... writers , among them the unassuming novice who now sits before you , never know where pens 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 ...
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... writing , all attempts , a few open and many furtive , to dislodge him have failed . When challenged to produce evidence of his possession of the slightest knowledge of national finances , suc- cessful reorganization of which was ...
... writing , all attempts , a few open and many furtive , to dislodge him have failed . When challenged to produce evidence of his possession of the slightest knowledge of national finances , suc- cessful reorganization of which was ...
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... 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 assume that the Locarno conference produced actual ...
... 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 assume that the Locarno conference produced actual ...
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... writers the utmost freedom of expression , leaving them alone responsible for all their statements . — THE EDITORS ] 1925 THE Ku Klux Klan on last Thanksgiving Day passed its tenth anniversary . In one decade it has made a place and won ...
... writers the utmost freedom of expression , leaving them alone responsible for all their statements . — THE EDITORS ] 1925 THE Ku Klux Klan on last Thanksgiving Day passed its tenth anniversary . In one decade it has made a place and won ...
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... writer's mind than a desire to urge that it should not be the acclaimed privilege of the White Man to do all in his power to aid other races . He only desires to protest against the world's opinion that this justifies the occupation of ...
... writer's mind than a desire to urge that it should not be the acclaimed privilege of the White Man to do all in his power to aid other races . He only desires to protest against the world's opinion that this justifies the occupation of ...
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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.