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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... hundred men are now employed in them , and the shipments in 1886 amounted to 305,954 tons . So much for the material thrift of State and people . What is their provision for education of youth , for care of incapables , for repression ...
... hundred men are now employed in them , and the shipments in 1886 amounted to 305,954 tons . So much for the material thrift of State and people . What is their provision for education of youth , for care of incapables , for repression ...
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... hundred per cent . upon the par value of the bonds , instead of ninety per cent . , as now authorized by law . This would be in accordance with the McPherson bill , which passed the Senate last winter , but which failed to pass the ...
... hundred per cent . upon the par value of the bonds , instead of ninety per cent . , as now authorized by law . This would be in accordance with the McPherson bill , which passed the Senate last winter , but which failed to pass the ...
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... hundred thousand gallons of New England rum . The evil thus poured into it from the enlightened world threatens to overwhelm all the good which is but slowly transferred . Five years ago , liquor was unknown among tribes which are now ...
... hundred thousand gallons of New England rum . The evil thus poured into it from the enlightened world threatens to overwhelm all the good which is but slowly transferred . Five years ago , liquor was unknown among tribes which are now ...
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... hundred thousand tons less than was actually sold in the same months of the previous year , for the undisguised purpose , by means of that artificial scarcity , of establishing an advance of 50c . per ton , with the hope of even higher ...
... hundred thousand tons less than was actually sold in the same months of the previous year , for the undisguised purpose , by means of that artificial scarcity , of establishing an advance of 50c . per ton , with the hope of even higher ...
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... hundred miles away . Even the failures which have occurred in the maintenance of this compact reveal its arbitrary purpose of sustaining prices . One of the pleas of avoidance and confession by which the movement of Governor Pattison ...
... hundred miles away . Even the failures which have occurred in the maintenance of this compact reveal its arbitrary purpose of sustaining prices . One of the pleas of avoidance and confession by which the movement of Governor Pattison ...
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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...