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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... demand and obtain the one man who personified beyond all others the Will of the People . For that reason and for that alone , barring the universally conceded excellence of the choice , we rejoice in the nomination for President of ...
... demand and obtain the one man who personified beyond all others the Will of the People . For that reason and for that alone , barring the universally conceded excellence of the choice , we rejoice in the nomination for President of ...
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... demand for a dominant , thor- oughgoing Americanism with firm protective upbuilding policies es- sential to your peace and security ; and to that call in this crisis I cannot fail to answer with the pledge of all that is in me to the ...
... demand for a dominant , thor- oughgoing Americanism with firm protective upbuilding policies es- sential to your peace and security ; and to that call in this crisis I cannot fail to answer with the pledge of all that is in me to the ...
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... demand adequate pro- vision for national defense , and we condemn the inexcusable neglect that has been shown in this matter of first national importance . We must have the strength which self - respect demands , the strength of an ...
... demand adequate pro- vision for national defense , and we condemn the inexcusable neglect that has been shown in this matter of first national importance . We must have the strength which self - respect demands , the strength of an ...
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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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through the extraordinary demands of the war . But we are dependent upon other nations for the vessels to carry our goods ... demand a new Declaration of Moral and Intellectual Independence ; but , judging from recent and even current ...
through the extraordinary demands of the war . But we are dependent upon other nations for the vessels to carry our goods ... demand a new Declaration of Moral and Intellectual Independence ; but , judging from recent and even current ...
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Page 626 - ... 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 531 - 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 414 - 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 412 - 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 428 - 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.