The North American Review, Volume 144O. Everett, 1887 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... success in peace . We should not fail to note also as a force which exerted a powerful influence in producing the result we have indicated , that morbid sentimentality which insisted upon ignoring the righteous- ness of the National ...
... success in peace . We should not fail to note also as a force which exerted a powerful influence in producing the result we have indicated , that morbid sentimentality which insisted upon ignoring the righteous- ness of the National ...
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... success of the Confederate cause awakened little attention , as the Northern press , like the Northern people , had not sufficient interest in the subject to question its accuracy or rebut its conclusions . Not so , however , the ...
... success of the Confederate cause awakened little attention , as the Northern press , like the Northern people , had not sufficient interest in the subject to question its accuracy or rebut its conclusions . Not so , however , the ...
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... successful , regretted that instead of the inexperienced backwoodsman , they did not have in the Presi- dential chair the scholarly and veteran Seward , or the astute and plausible Chase . In truth , it was mainly because these men were ...
... successful , regretted that instead of the inexperienced backwoodsman , they did not have in the Presi- dential chair the scholarly and veteran Seward , or the astute and plausible Chase . In truth , it was mainly because these men were ...
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... success of the rebellion . Soon after one of our leading journals , referring to this revision of opinion in regard to Lincoln , said : " The people of the country , and especially those living at the East , are just beginning to ...
... success of the rebellion . Soon after one of our leading journals , referring to this revision of opinion in regard to Lincoln , said : " The people of the country , and especially those living at the East , are just beginning to ...
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... successful . Such as have seemed temporarily to achieve a cer- tain measure of success have been held together : ( 1 ) By some religious or quasi - religious tie , and those have in turn broken up when the effect of the tie has weakened ...
... successful . Such as have seemed temporarily to achieve a cer- tain measure of success have been held together : ( 1 ) By some religious or quasi - religious tie , and those have in turn broken up when the effect of the tie has weakened ...
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Page 355 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 439 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 606 - Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Page 367 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 105 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 577 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us; Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Page 441 - Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, ordained and established at Montgomery, Alabama, on the...
Page 446 - first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Page 39 - But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier, and better, by those pursuits in which she has taught mankind to engage ? — to how many the studies which took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude...
Page 373 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...