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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... escaped the stylus of the literary assassin , while very many have insisted on giving their fame the coup de grâce of autobiographic defense . The character of these works has changed from time to 4 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW .
... escaped the stylus of the literary assassin , while very many have insisted on giving their fame the coup de grâce of autobiographic defense . The character of these works has changed from time to 4 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW .
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The character of these works has changed from time to time with the change in public sentiment already indicated . The earlier ones were yet marked with the heat of conflict and its antecedent struggles . Greeley's " American Conflict ...
The character of these works has changed from time to time with the change in public sentiment already indicated . The earlier ones were yet marked with the heat of conflict and its antecedent struggles . Greeley's " American Conflict ...
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... character has continued until recent times . While justice has been done to his patriotism , patience , and humanity , it is only recently that his intellectual capacity has been generally recognized and admitted , whether by friend or ...
... character has continued until recent times . While justice has been done to his patriotism , patience , and humanity , it is only recently that his intellectual capacity has been generally recognized and admitted , whether by friend or ...
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... character , have made necessary the revision of the accepted judgment . The works in regard to the central character of the epoch of rebellion which have recently appeared , are among the most sig- nificant fruits of this renaissance of ...
... character , have made necessary the revision of the accepted judgment . The works in regard to the central character of the epoch of rebellion which have recently appeared , are among the most sig- nificant fruits of this renaissance of ...
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... character of Mr. Lincoln . The author - him- self a man of no mean ability - was a professional and political friend of Mr. Lincoln from his first entrance into political life until his death . A man himself of entire intellectual ...
... character of Mr. Lincoln . The author - him- self a man of no mean ability - was a professional and political friend of Mr. Lincoln from his first entrance into political life until his death . A man himself of entire intellectual ...
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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...