The North American Review, Volume 204University of Northern Iowa, 1916 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... America , keep unsullied the sacred shrine of peace , through whose portals will yet pass arm in arm the crowned head and the humble peasant in silent worship of God . Out of the ruins and sufferings of the present conflict will arise a ...
... America , keep unsullied the sacred shrine of peace , through whose portals will yet pass arm in arm the crowned head and the humble peasant in silent worship of God . Out of the ruins and sufferings of the present conflict will arise a ...
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... find their places and false issues must be eliminated . Chief among the latter raised at the outset by our neighbor the Sun is the question of Mr. Wilson's fidelity with respect to the single - term pledge 10 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... find their places and false issues must be eliminated . Chief among the latter raised at the outset by our neighbor the Sun is the question of Mr. Wilson's fidelity with respect to the single - term pledge 10 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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... AMERICAN REVIEW for February , 1916 . If more remains to be or need be said upon that subject , we frankly confess to a serious impairment of reasoning facul- ties . No ; there is nothing in this point . Mr. Wilson res ceives his ...
... AMERICAN REVIEW for February , 1916 . If more remains to be or need be said upon that subject , we frankly confess to a serious impairment of reasoning facul- ties . No ; there is nothing in this point . Mr. Wilson res ceives his ...
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... Independence also cries aloud to heaven for firm establishment . We are exulting in the vast increase in our foreign trade which has come to us through the extraordinary demands of the war . But we 14 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... Independence also cries aloud to heaven for firm establishment . We are exulting in the vast increase in our foreign trade which has come to us through the extraordinary demands of the war . But we 14 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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... American Government has recently been placed in the attitude of a suppliant , humbly begging a European nation to grant it the boon of letting a limited in- voice of dyes come hither , in order that we may continue to print our paper ...
... American Government has recently been placed in the attitude of a suppliant , humbly begging a European nation to grant it the boon of letting a limited in- voice of dyes come hither , in order that we may continue to print our paper ...
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Page 624 - ... them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives : By objects, which might force the soul to abate Her feeling, rendered more compassionate...
Page 35 - So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
Page 233 - The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere ; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Page 529 - I, therefore, come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, even amidst the distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico.
Page 36 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 412 - When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on Independence day, or the fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter...
Page 82 - Vergennes used to hate us - and so things are getting back to a wholesome state again. Every nation for itself and God for us all.
Page 410 - I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Page 426 - Oread WHIRL UP, sea — whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir.
Page 31 - With me a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.