North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 223University of Northern Iowa, 1926 |
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... literature and philosophy and has profoundly influenced all white civiliza- tion , but because it is the basis on which all Christian religions are built , and to which they must look for their authority . The Klan believes in the right ...
... literature and philosophy and has profoundly influenced all white civiliza- tion , but because it is the basis on which all Christian religions are built , and to which they must look for their authority . The Klan believes in the right ...
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... literature we can designate the dozen years or so which lie between The Dunciad and the emergence of Samuel ... literatures , certainly , on a time of considerable distinction half way through last century there followed , thirty years ...
... literature we can designate the dozen years or so which lie between The Dunciad and the emergence of Samuel ... literatures , certainly , on a time of considerable distinction half way through last century there followed , thirty years ...
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... literature , ranging beyond the actual , should describe men as they should be ; and , lastly , all the prattle about books and ideas proved most grateful to the class of human beings , not peculiar to any single race or age , which ...
... literature , ranging beyond the actual , should describe men as they should be ; and , lastly , all the prattle about books and ideas proved most grateful to the class of human beings , not peculiar to any single race or age , which ...
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... literature Gabriel Schillings Flucht ( The Flight of Gabriel Schilling , 1912 ) and the author's first finished novel Der Narr in Christo , Emanuel Quint ( The Fool in Christ , Emanuel Quint , 1910 ) ; the cult of brutality and ...
... literature Gabriel Schillings Flucht ( The Flight of Gabriel Schilling , 1912 ) and the author's first finished novel Der Narr in Christo , Emanuel Quint ( The Fool in Christ , Emanuel Quint , 1910 ) ; the cult of brutality and ...
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... literature to give him men not as they were but as they should be . It tells of the bell - founder Heinrich , who , forsaking wife and children , took to paramour one of the same elfish spirits that had pitched his masterpiece into a ...
... literature to give him men not as they were but as they should be . It tells of the bell - founder Heinrich , who , forsaking wife and children , took to paramour one of the same elfish spirits that had pitched his masterpiece into a ...
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Page 279 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Page 309 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 235 - The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities.
Page 526 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Page 237 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 281 - As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes...
Page 309 - ... truth is great and will prevail, if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them...
Page 235 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 564 - ... their actings bring real good to their country, yet men primarily considered that their own and their country's interest was united and did not act from a principle of benevolence. "That fewer still in public affairs act with a view to the good of mankind.
Page 254 - The High Contracting Parties agree to submit to arbitration all claims for pecuniary loss or damage which may be presented by their respective citizens and which cannot be amicably adjusted through diplomatic channels, when said claims are of sufficient importance to warrant the expense of arbitration.