The North American Review, Volume 66Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1848 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... Political Economy , and the Philosophy of Govern- ment ; a Series of Essays selected from the Works of M. DE SISMONDI . With an Historical Notice of his Life and Writings , by M. MIGNET . Translated from the French and illustrated by ...
... Political Economy , and the Philosophy of Govern- ment ; a Series of Essays selected from the Works of M. DE SISMONDI . With an Historical Notice of his Life and Writings , by M. MIGNET . Translated from the French and illustrated by ...
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... political deg- radation , asserting from time to time , with untiring energy , her intellectual supremacy , she still remains divided and depend- ent , restless in her inactivity , possessing all the virulence of party without its ...
... political deg- radation , asserting from time to time , with untiring energy , her intellectual supremacy , she still remains divided and depend- ent , restless in her inactivity , possessing all the virulence of party without its ...
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... political glory of Lorenzo the Magnificent . But the views of this selfish man , like those of a king of our own days , who also was called to a glorious destiny which he refused to ful- fill , were bounded by personal interest and ...
... political glory of Lorenzo the Magnificent . But the views of this selfish man , like those of a king of our own days , who also was called to a glorious destiny which he refused to ful- fill , were bounded by personal interest and ...
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... political rights . But the moment had passed , and again the opportunity seemed deferred to some indefinite period . For when the sovereigns returned from their long exile , it was not with that expansive joy which the sight of a home ...
... political rights . But the moment had passed , and again the opportunity seemed deferred to some indefinite period . For when the sovereigns returned from their long exile , it was not with that expansive joy which the sight of a home ...
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... political or social condi- tion that we must seek for the cause ; and wherever social or political progress is checked , we may look for a corresponding decay in literature . And well is it for society that all its classes must thus ...
... political or social condi- tion that we must seek for the cause ; and wherever social or political progress is checked , we may look for a corresponding decay in literature . And well is it for society that all its classes must thus ...
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Page 400 - CHARICLES ; a Tale illustrative of Private Life among the Ancient Greeks : with Notes and Excursuses. New Edition. Post Svo.
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Page 479 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 234 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 480 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
Page 80 - Our ancestors are very good kind of folks ; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Page 481 - And smiles as she never smiled : When I wake in the morning, I see it Where she always used to lie, And I feel as weak as a violet Alone 'neath the awful sky. *>• As weak, yet as trustful also ; For the whole year long I see All the wonders of faithful Nature Still worked for the love of me; Winds wander, and dews drip earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
Page 242 - And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape ; Twinkling...
Page 476 - New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth...
Page 242 - Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower...