The North American Review, Volume 209University of Northern Iowa, 1919 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... once made them no small part of the light of the world . If so , the dissolution of the Empire will be no less beneficent to the Germans themselves than to the rest of the world which it frees from the menace of further attempts at ...
... once made them no small part of the light of the world . If so , the dissolution of the Empire will be no less beneficent to the Germans themselves than to the rest of the world which it frees from the menace of further attempts at ...
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... once since May , 1916 , has the President met correspon- dents collectively , and that not once in the past year has he received one of them individually . This attitude of aloofness cannot be attributed to any reluctance toward ...
... once since May , 1916 , has the President met correspon- dents collectively , and that not once in the past year has he received one of them individually . This attitude of aloofness cannot be attributed to any reluctance toward ...
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... once free and safe . And the question of limiting naval armaments opens the wider and perhaps more difficult question of the limitation of armies and of all programmes of military preparation . Here , in other words , we find Freedom of ...
... once free and safe . And the question of limiting naval armaments opens the wider and perhaps more difficult question of the limitation of armies and of all programmes of military preparation . Here , in other words , we find Freedom of ...
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... once more . At this Conference , at the succeeding con- ference of 1907 and again at the London Naval Conference some months later , the American delegates urged that private property on the high seas , unless contraband of war or in ...
... once more . At this Conference , at the succeeding con- ference of 1907 and again at the London Naval Conference some months later , the American delegates urged that private property on the high seas , unless contraband of war or in ...
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... Once an English- man , always an Englishman " -which had supported her earlier policy of impressment ; she has accepted the principle of " Free ships , free goods . " Also , speaking broadly , the British Fleet has been during this time ...
... Once an English- man , always an Englishman " -which had supported her earlier policy of impressment ; she has accepted the principle of " Free ships , free goods . " Also , speaking broadly , the British Fleet has been during this time ...
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Page 325 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 603 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Page 325 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 519 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 92 - The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky...
Page 283 - Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Page 439 - For my heart was hot and restless, And my life was full of care, And the burden laid upon me Seemed greater than I could bear. But now it has fallen from me, It is buried in the sea; And only the sorrow of others Throws its shadow over me.
Page 278 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 91 - Grow old along with me ! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made : Our times are in his hand Who saith, 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God : see all, nor be afraid ! ' Not that, amassing flowers, Youth sighed, ' Which rose make ours, Which lily leave and then as best recall ? ' Not that, admiring stars, It yearned, 'Nor Jove, nor Mars; Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!
Page 34 - Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.