The North American Review, Volume 124Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1877 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... gives to the operation of local frauds or even mistakes , ought to be sufficient to condemn it . But this statement does not exhaust , it does little more than begin to enumerate , the objections . The present system of swinging the ...
... gives to the operation of local frauds or even mistakes , ought to be sufficient to condemn it . But this statement does not exhaust , it does little more than begin to enumerate , the objections . The present system of swinging the ...
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... give new impetus to that centripetal force which is already alarmingly great . In view of these dangers and objections , would it not be better to leave the earlier steps in the election to be taken upon the responsibility of the States ...
... give new impetus to that centripetal force which is already alarmingly great . In view of these dangers and objections , would it not be better to leave the earlier steps in the election to be taken upon the responsibility of the States ...
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... give up the spoils system . It is expecting a good deal of the virtue of members of Congress that they should be will- ing to surrender this patronage . They must be forced to it by an overruling public opinion . The great mass of men ...
... give up the spoils system . It is expecting a good deal of the virtue of members of Congress that they should be will- ing to surrender this patronage . They must be forced to it by an overruling public opinion . The great mass of men ...
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... give it to a common observer a somewhat different appearance . But no analogy can be drawn from the British Parliament to our Congress . Parlia- ment governs the British Empire in administration as well as legislation , subject to no ...
... give it to a common observer a somewhat different appearance . But no analogy can be drawn from the British Parliament to our Congress . Parlia- ment governs the British Empire in administration as well as legislation , subject to no ...
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... give them . Relying on this , the first to gain pos- session of the seat of authority order out their opponents , and the soldier blindly executes the order . We do not mean to speak of any particular cases past , but of the natural and ...
... give them . Relying on this , the first to gain pos- session of the seat of authority order out their opponents , and the soldier blindly executes the order . We do not mean to speak of any particular cases past , but of the natural and ...
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Page 500 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 366 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit : Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
Page 317 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Page 367 - These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them — I have lived to-day.
Page 403 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 372 - Hark ! how the strings awake ! And though the moving hand approach not near, Themselves with awful fear A kind of numerous trembling make : Now all thy forces try, Now all thy charms apply, Revenge upon her ear the conquests of her eye.
Page 34 - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.
Page 334 - ... and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest.
Page 380 - The last, the meanest of your sons inspire (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) To teach vain Wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Page 367 - ... to lie Spenser's works. This I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses which I found everywhere there...