The North American Review, Volume 208University of Northern Iowa, 1918 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... ment of enthusiasm . Speaker Clark's frankly partisan speech in Indiana , in which he appealed to " the grand inquest of the Nation " for approval of the Democratic record , " a magnificent , a won- derful record which anybody save a ...
... ment of enthusiasm . Speaker Clark's frankly partisan speech in Indiana , in which he appealed to " the grand inquest of the Nation " for approval of the Democratic record , " a magnificent , a won- derful record which anybody save a ...
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... ment unbelievably heavy . It began with single shells of big calibre , and the firing increased in intensity until it reached its maximum - something infernal , shells whizzing and burst- ing everywhere . Curiously enough , our company ...
... ment unbelievably heavy . It began with single shells of big calibre , and the firing increased in intensity until it reached its maximum - something infernal , shells whizzing and burst- ing everywhere . Curiously enough , our company ...
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... ment complete to the last gaiter button , and because you didn't have them , for which nobody is to blame , but everyone is responsible , the men who sit in Congress and the men who send the men who sit in Congress - the whole country ...
... ment complete to the last gaiter button , and because you didn't have them , for which nobody is to blame , but everyone is responsible , the men who sit in Congress and the men who send the men who sit in Congress - the whole country ...
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... ment , with the cold precision of science , reduced requirements and production to the passionless formula of pure mathe- matics and worked out an equation with X , the unknown quantity , eliminated . It would take so many days and ...
... ment , with the cold precision of science , reduced requirements and production to the passionless formula of pure mathe- matics and worked out an equation with X , the unknown quantity , eliminated . It would take so many days and ...
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... Govern- ment has its press institution in close permanent touch with the management . In this way the Government may at any moment exercise an authoritative influence over the manner in which 52 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... Govern- ment has its press institution in close permanent touch with the management . In this way the Government may at any moment exercise an authoritative influence over the manner in which 52 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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Page 497 - And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said ; Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Page 291 - The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence.
Page 410 - Doctrines more respected and better observed ; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the Unbelievers in his Government of the World with any peculiar Marks of his Displeasure. I shall only add, respecting myself, that, having experienced the Goodness of that Being in conducting me prosperously thro...
Page 61 - Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted, or distressed in mind, body, or estate ; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities, giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions.
Page 292 - The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct toward each other by the same principles of honor and of respect for the common law of civilized society that govern the individual citizens of all modern States in their relations with one another...
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Page 593 - ... fields of knowledge. And the very air he breathes should be charged with that enthusiasm for truth, that fanaticism of veracity, which is a greater possession than much learning; a nobler gift than the power of increasing knowledge; by so much greater and nobler than these, as the moral nature of man is greater than the intellectual; for veracity is the heart of morality.