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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... truth is that public sentiment had grown so strong in favor of the superiority of Southern statesmanship and Southern strategy , that it became almost imperative to explain why they did not suc- ceed . This made it incumbent on every ...
... truth is that public sentiment had grown so strong in favor of the superiority of Southern statesmanship and Southern strategy , that it became almost imperative to explain why they did not suc- ceed . This made it incumbent on every ...
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... truth of what has been said more clearly shown than in the revision of the popular estimate of the central figure of that time . Twenty - six years ago the first life of Abra- ham Lincoln was written . It was a campaign book intended to ...
... truth of what has been said more clearly shown than in the revision of the popular estimate of the central figure of that time . Twenty - six years ago the first life of Abra- ham Lincoln was written . It was a campaign book intended to ...
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... truth and policy were one and the same thing , not because " honesty is the best policy , " but because it was the only policy he could pursue . Next came the work of Mr. William O. Stoddard . This beside being complementary of Mr ...
... truth and policy were one and the same thing , not because " honesty is the best policy , " but because it was the only policy he could pursue . Next came the work of Mr. William O. Stoddard . This beside being complementary of Mr ...
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... truth to which their philosophy had attained : the preparatory quality in their ethnic faith . He rejected only the corruptions of this faith . The ancient faith itself he not only did not reject , but accepted as the foundation upon ...
... truth to which their philosophy had attained : the preparatory quality in their ethnic faith . He rejected only the corruptions of this faith . The ancient faith itself he not only did not reject , but accepted as the foundation upon ...
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... truth and genius over prejudice and power , in every country and in every age , have been the triumphs of Athens . Wherever a few great minds have made a stand against violence and fraud , in the cause of liberty and reason , there has ...
... truth and genius over prejudice and power , in every country and in every age , have been the triumphs of Athens . Wherever a few great minds have made a stand against violence and fraud , in the cause of liberty and reason , there has ...
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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...