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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... true that in our foreign relations we have suffered incalculably from the weak and vacillating course which has been taken with regard to Mexico , a course lamentably wrong with regard to both our rights and our duties . We interfered ...
... true that in our foreign relations we have suffered incalculably from the weak and vacillating course which has been taken with regard to Mexico , a course lamentably wrong with regard to both our rights and our duties . We interfered ...
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... true and partly false in their pretensions . The boasts of aliens and hyphenates in 1916 , that they have dictated the action of Congress and of nominating conventions , may be more false than true . But it is a most repugnant thing to ...
... true and partly false in their pretensions . The boasts of aliens and hyphenates in 1916 , that they have dictated the action of Congress and of nominating conventions , may be more false than true . But it is a most repugnant thing to ...
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lieve that they are true . The thing ought to be so impossible , and its impossibility ought to be so obvious and ... true that some statistics are somewhat startling ; or are made to appear so , which is a very different thing . But ...
lieve that they are true . The thing ought to be so impossible , and its impossibility ought to be so obvious and ... true that some statistics are somewhat startling ; or are made to appear so , which is a very different thing . But ...
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... True , there are others of far greater horse - power ; but the Pennsylvania is the most powerful . There are others ... true . It is not grateful nor gracious to argue against our own , or to challenge our alleged superiority . But ...
... True , there are others of far greater horse - power ; but the Pennsylvania is the most powerful . There are others ... true . It is not grateful nor gracious to argue against our own , or to challenge our alleged superiority . But ...
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... true , that speed is not the prime consideration . Perhaps not . But it is an important con- sideration , and , other things being equal , it is a decisive consideration . Superiority of even a single knot would mark one vessel as ...
... true , that speed is not the prime consideration . Perhaps not . But it is an important con- sideration , and , other things being equal , it is a decisive consideration . Superiority of even a single knot would mark one vessel as ...
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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.