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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... hope . It was well enough for the Temporary Chairman , speaking as a partisan , to exult over what he was pleased to call the " reconsecration " of the Republican party ; but , while wishing to avoid even the seeming of skepticism , we ...
... hope . It was well enough for the Temporary Chairman , speaking as a partisan , to exult over what he was pleased to call the " reconsecration " of the Republican party ; but , while wishing to avoid even the seeming of skepticism , we ...
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... hope that neither of the candidates be likened to Lincoln ? It does not seem as if we could bear it . Hughes is Hughes and Wilson is Wilson , - which should satisfy the partisans of each . So " why , " in the words of Whistler , " lug ...
... hope that neither of the candidates be likened to Lincoln ? It does not seem as if we could bear it . Hughes is Hughes and Wilson is Wilson , - which should satisfy the partisans of each . So " why , " in the words of Whistler , " lug ...
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... hope of thus winning the reputation of genius , or has been imputed without warrant in fact , by romantic and exag- gerating adulators or biographers . Moreover , for every real genius who has verged upon insanity , or has even really ...
... hope of thus winning the reputation of genius , or has been imputed without warrant in fact , by romantic and exag- gerating adulators or biographers . Moreover , for every real genius who has verged upon insanity , or has even really ...
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... him and his policy without making either him or his policy too prominent . Joined to these motives was the hope in Washington's mind that he might still possess sufficient influence - which he 30 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... him and his policy without making either him or his policy too prominent . Joined to these motives was the hope in Washington's mind that he might still possess sufficient influence - which he 30 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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... hope of get- ting rich indemnities , the only way of escape from threaten- ing financial disaster . The hope of obtaining indemnities- although Dr. Helfferich still professes to count on them- has already faded into nothingness , and ...
... hope of get- ting rich indemnities , the only way of escape from threaten- ing financial disaster . The hope of obtaining indemnities- although Dr. Helfferich still professes to count on them- has already faded into nothingness , and ...
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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.