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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... human endurance before we would even seem to play the bully , —and he spoke the truth . To interpret his words as implying that either he or the Nation is pusillani- mous is to do wilful wrong to our own Chief Magistrate . Everybody ...
... human endurance before we would even seem to play the bully , —and he spoke the truth . To interpret his words as implying that either he or the Nation is pusillani- mous is to do wilful wrong to our own Chief Magistrate . Everybody ...
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... human race is not all going mad Nor are those divisions of it which enjoy the highest in- tellectual and social culture , and therefore , as some say , suf- fer the highest mental pressure and the tensest nervous strain , immediately ...
... human race is not all going mad Nor are those divisions of it which enjoy the highest in- tellectual and social culture , and therefore , as some say , suf- fer the highest mental pressure and the tensest nervous strain , immediately ...
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... human thought , effort and experience , which , in their aggregate , we call civ- ilization . And for the reason that the problem bears this character , for the reason that it touches all the springs of ac- tion and is as complex as human ...
... human thought , effort and experience , which , in their aggregate , we call civ- ilization . And for the reason that the problem bears this character , for the reason that it touches all the springs of ac- tion and is as complex as human ...
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... humanity , " the ideas of liberty and equality of the French Revolution . In weighing the asper- sions sometimes cast ... human tendency from which even elective rulers are not in- variably exempt . It is indeed strange that one who has ...
... humanity , " the ideas of liberty and equality of the French Revolution . In weighing the asper- sions sometimes cast ... human tendency from which even elective rulers are not in- variably exempt . It is indeed strange that one who has ...
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... Human life is too brief , too uncertain . The conservative force of organization is absolutely essential to progress and order . A party has - principles , traditions and a history that hold individuals in check and make for stability ...
... Human life is too brief , too uncertain . The conservative force of organization is absolutely essential to progress and order . A party has - principles , traditions and a history that hold individuals in check and make for stability ...
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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.