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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... hand . Thus it has come to pass that the selection of candidates and election of President , instead of being a power and function spread as equally as possible over the whole country , is reduced to a few great centres , where the ...
... hand . Thus it has come to pass that the selection of candidates and election of President , instead of being a power and function spread as equally as possible over the whole country , is reduced to a few great centres , where the ...
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... hands of electioneering experts , the chief of the dangerous classes in this country . A citizen needs a breathing time in which he can think of other things , a period of repose . The choice of a member of Congress every other year ...
... hands of electioneering experts , the chief of the dangerous classes in this country . A citizen needs a breathing time in which he can think of other things , a period of repose . The choice of a member of Congress every other year ...
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... hands . It made no attempt in that direction . The policy , having been thus followed by both parties , has become settled upon the country . Its evils have become developed even beyond the prediction of its most far - seeing opponents ...
... hands . It made no attempt in that direction . The policy , having been thus followed by both parties , has become settled upon the country . Its evils have become developed even beyond the prediction of its most far - seeing opponents ...
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... hand , have not , and have determined that we will not have , and without a radical revolution , including the destruction of the States , can never have , such an assembly . As a democratic Re- public , we have trusted to the ...
... hand , have not , and have determined that we will not have , and without a radical revolution , including the destruction of the States , can never have , such an assembly . As a democratic Re- public , we have trusted to the ...
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... hands full of ballots . It is natural that each side should exaggerate the patience and for- bearance of their supporters and the incapacity and evil deeds of their opponents . In this state of things it is 1877. ] 27 Points in American ...
... hands full of ballots . It is natural that each side should exaggerate the patience and for- bearance of their supporters and the incapacity and evil deeds of their opponents . In this state of things it is 1877. ] 27 Points in American ...
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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...