The North American Review, Volume 223Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1926 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... holds the center of the stage that is called the world . A massive head covered by curly black hair that straggled over his collar ; a long drooping moustache incessantly stroked , not nervously but caressingly , by a hand so small and ...
... holds the center of the stage that is called the world . A massive head covered by curly black hair that straggled over his collar ; a long drooping moustache incessantly stroked , not nervously but caressingly , by a hand so small and ...
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... hold fast so long as it could muster “ a majority of one , " and that one himself . He did not need to say that he was not actuated by personal ambi- tion , but he did not fail to add , at the close of the all - night sitting , the most ...
... hold fast so long as it could muster “ a majority of one , " and that one himself . He did not need to say that he was not actuated by personal ambi- tion , but he did not fail to add , at the close of the all - night sitting , the most ...
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... hold that as a riparian proprietor it had a right to draw water for its own purposes . Far from proceeding upon this theory , " as the available supply was strictly limited , " writes Sir Murdoch Macdonald , then British Adviser to the ...
... hold that as a riparian proprietor it had a right to draw water for its own purposes . Far from proceeding upon this theory , " as the available supply was strictly limited , " writes Sir Murdoch Macdonald , then British Adviser to the ...
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... easily sur- vive and rule and increase if he holds for himself the advantages won by strength and daring of his ancestors in times of stress and peril , but that if he surrenders those advantages 40 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... easily sur- vive and rule and increase if he holds for himself the advantages won by strength and daring of his ancestors in times of stress and peril , but that if he surrenders those advantages 40 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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... hold , give it certain definite characteristics . The disadvantages that go with them , as well as the advantages , may as well be admitted at once . We are a movement of the plain people , very weak in the matter of culture ...
... hold , give it certain definite characteristics . The disadvantages that go with them , as well as the advantages , may as well be admitted at once . We are a movement of the plain people , very weak in the matter of culture ...
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Page 283 - 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 313 - ... 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 682 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
Page 239 - 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 241 - 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 285 - 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 313 - ... 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 239 - All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.
Page 401 - The honor of my country shall never be stained by an apology from me for the statement of truth and the performance of duty; nor can I give any explanation of my official acts except such as is due to integrity and justice and consistent with the principles on which our institutions have been framed.