North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 221University of Northern Iowa, 1925 |
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Page 386
... remains . All you have said since Election Day indicates that this is your purpose . . . . Frankly , again , we could wish there had been , in your campaigns for the nomination of your party and then for election , less apparent ...
... remains . All you have said since Election Day indicates that this is your purpose . . . . Frankly , again , we could wish there had been , in your campaigns for the nomination of your party and then for election , less apparent ...
Page 409
... remains to be said that the basic character of the movement , its major policies , its course over any long period , are not to be attrib- uted to any individual . These things can only be accounted for by taking cognizance of great and ...
... remains to be said that the basic character of the movement , its major policies , its course over any long period , are not to be attrib- uted to any individual . These things can only be accounted for by taking cognizance of great and ...
Page 417
... remains to be seen whether the President will ally himself with one or the other wings of his party , or , on the other hand , whether he can preserve a position of neutral- ity between them and succeed in the most necessary task of ...
... remains to be seen whether the President will ally himself with one or the other wings of his party , or , on the other hand , whether he can preserve a position of neutral- ity between them and succeed in the most necessary task of ...
Page 429
... remains a chance of victory and power to either side they will remain bound together , engaged in the struggle . But if either is definitely and finally defeated over a crucial issue the separation will become permanent . If the Eastern ...
... remains a chance of victory and power to either side they will remain bound together , engaged in the struggle . But if either is definitely and finally defeated over a crucial issue the separation will become permanent . If the Eastern ...
Page 431
... remains or to reanimate the dispirited units with the ardor of a fighting force . Officers of minor rank scarcely dare raise their voices to give the word of command , or , if they do so , it falls upon heedless ears . On all sides are ...
... remains or to reanimate the dispirited units with the ardor of a fighting force . Officers of minor rank scarcely dare raise their voices to give the word of command , or , if they do so , it falls upon heedless ears . On all sides are ...
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Page 636 - ... presence, aid or instigation is guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or both.
Page 385 - Then, I believe, we need add no more : if he knows himself, he will consider it as the most perfect punishment, that he is known to the world. Chas. Surf. If they talk this way to Honesty, what will they say to me, by and by ? [Aside.
Page 495 - Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. She should have been a man — a great navigator,
Page 553 - Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.
Page 504 - No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Page 515 - It has been before observed that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion...
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Page 392 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth, or honors, or for worldly state...
Page 594 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.