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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... United States , to be torn and baffled by those stronger and wiser . These and kindred works induced the general belief that he was the tool now of one cabinet officer and now of another ; con- trolled now by this cabal and anon by that ...
... United States , to be torn and baffled by those stronger and wiser . These and kindred works induced the general belief that he was the tool now of one cabinet officer and now of another ; con- trolled now by this cabal and anon by that ...
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... United States or in this country , have been more than large co - operative enterprises , the property of the adventurers belonging to the cor- porate body . And there is little doubt that these experiments have done something to ...
... United States or in this country , have been more than large co - operative enterprises , the property of the adventurers belonging to the cor- porate body . And there is little doubt that these experiments have done something to ...
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... United States , while of the foreign born , over 25 per cent . were German , 9 per cent . were Irish , 40 per cent . Scandinavian , less than 5 per cent . British , and about 8 per cent . native of other European countries . This ...
... United States , while of the foreign born , over 25 per cent . were German , 9 per cent . were Irish , 40 per cent . Scandinavian , less than 5 per cent . British , and about 8 per cent . native of other European countries . This ...
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... United States censuses of 1860 and 1880 , and the State statistical volume of 1885 , each of which reports products of the year before its date : Wheat ( bushels ) .. Barley .. Corn .. Oats .. Potatoes ... Flax seed .. Grass seed .. Hay ...
... United States censuses of 1860 and 1880 , and the State statistical volume of 1885 , each of which reports products of the year before its date : Wheat ( bushels ) .. Barley .. Corn .. Oats .. Potatoes ... Flax seed .. Grass seed .. Hay ...
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... United States furnishes the following regarding manufactures : 1860 . 1870 . 1880 . Number of establishments ........ Number of hands employed .. 562 2,123 Capital invested ..... $ 2,388,310 2,270 11,290 $ 11,993,729 3,493 21,247 ...
... United States furnishes the following regarding manufactures : 1860 . 1870 . 1880 . Number of establishments ........ Number of hands employed .. 562 2,123 Capital invested ..... $ 2,388,310 2,270 11,290 $ 11,993,729 3,493 21,247 ...
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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 604 - 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 107 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 333 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, and the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
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 107 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 107 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it; and now beware of rashness.
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...