The North American Review, Volume 30University of Northern Iowa, 1830 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... writers are fond of vague , abstract declamation about our ancestors ; but who they were , or what they did , how they thought and how they lived , what influence they had upon their age , or in guiding the destiny that awaited their ...
... writers are fond of vague , abstract declamation about our ancestors ; but who they were , or what they did , how they thought and how they lived , what influence they had upon their age , or in guiding the destiny that awaited their ...
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... writers and declaimers to dismiss such puerilities , and betake themselves to the study of history in its stern attribute of truth , and in is dignified office of weighing in the scales of justice the acts of men and the records of ages ...
... writers and declaimers to dismiss such puerilities , and betake themselves to the study of history in its stern attribute of truth , and in is dignified office of weighing in the scales of justice the acts of men and the records of ages ...
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... writers . We do not agree with all his positions , but doubtless they are as accurate as could be made from the ma- terials to which he had access . For instance , he tells us , that ' the project of reducing Canada was brought before ...
... writers . We do not agree with all his positions , but doubtless they are as accurate as could be made from the ma- terials to which he had access . For instance , he tells us , that ' the project of reducing Canada was brought before ...
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... to his talent as a writer , or his wisdom as a politician . Most of the well educated young men , who are bred to liberal professions in the United States , could easily compose a 1830. ] 31 Bolivar and the Bolivian Constitution .
... to his talent as a writer , or his wisdom as a politician . Most of the well educated young men , who are bred to liberal professions in the United States , could easily compose a 1830. ] 31 Bolivar and the Bolivian Constitution .
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... writers . The name is too unpopular in South America to encourage its introduction . But recent events in- dicate , that the substance is regarded with no unfavorable eye ; and among military men especially , we fear too many agree to ...
... writers . The name is too unpopular in South America to encourage its introduction . But recent events in- dicate , that the substance is regarded with no unfavorable eye ; and among military men especially , we fear too many agree to ...
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Page 86 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 105 - If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.
Page 502 - I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.
Page 309 - One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing waters mark his resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er. Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more ; Down, countless fathoms down, he sinks to sleep. With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep.
Page 522 - Here I am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison quarree, like a lover at his mistress. The stocking weavers and silk spinners around it consider me a hypochondriac Englishman, about to write with a pistol the last chapter of his history. This is the second time I have been in love since I left Paris. The first was with a Diana at the Chateau de Laye-Epinaye in Beaujolois, a delicious morsel of sculpture, by MA Slodtz.
Page 73 - Indians within the chartered limits of the British colonies. It asserted, also, a limited sovereignty over them, and the exclusive right of extinguishing the title which occupancy gave to them. These claims have been maintained and established, as far west as the river Mississippi, by the sword.
Page 532 - The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the Government, which was not done on. the purest motives...
Page 534 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 96 - Experience has clearly demonstrated that, in their present state, it is impossible to incorporate them in such masses, in any form whatever, into our system.
Page 304 - Art! sweet Art! new radiance broke Where her light foot flew o'er the ground, And thus, with seraph voice she spoke — " The Curse a blessing shall be found.