North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 221University of Northern Iowa, 1925 |
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Page 385
... things we do not like . Like your pred- ecessor , you in your youth revolted against that system of so - called protection which , in its present phase , we count an indefensible surrender , first of your party , and then of the ...
... things we do not like . Like your pred- ecessor , you in your youth revolted against that system of so - called protection which , in its present phase , we count an indefensible surrender , first of your party , and then of the ...
Page 386
... is not less because railroad and steamship , electricity and the press , bring far things near and make the mysterious commonplace . Because you hold it , Europe and Asia are daily mindful of you . Maintain 386 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... is not less because railroad and steamship , electricity and the press , bring far things near and make the mysterious commonplace . Because you hold it , Europe and Asia are daily mindful of you . Maintain 386 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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... thing has happened - has happened to you , of all men . Surely you will not quail before it . Surely you will not lack in the face of opportunity and of danger the supreme human quality ; you will not lack cour- age - the kind of ...
... thing has happened - has happened to you , of all men . Surely you will not quail before it . Surely you will not lack in the face of opportunity and of danger the supreme human quality ; you will not lack cour- age - the kind of ...
Page 392
... things hoped for , " but also " the evidence of things not seen . " Your unusual , if not indeed unique , career supplies that . In the course of a quarter of a century you have been sixteen times elected by the people to serve them in ...
... things hoped for , " but also " the evidence of things not seen . " Your unusual , if not indeed unique , career supplies that . In the course of a quarter of a century you have been sixteen times elected by the people to serve them in ...
Page 395
... things hoped for , " that you will successfully apply to these things those prin- ciples of homely , robust virtue and practical common sense which prevailed in the founding of this Republic and which you have inherited from its ...
... things hoped for , " that you will successfully apply to these things those prin- ciples of homely , robust virtue and practical common sense which prevailed in the founding of this Republic and which you have inherited from its ...
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Page 636 - ... presence, aid or instigation is guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or both.
Page 385 - Then, I believe, we need add no more : if he knows himself, he will consider it as the most perfect punishment, that he is known to the world. Chas. Surf. If they talk this way to Honesty, what will they say to me, by and by ? [Aside.
Page 495 - Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. She should have been a man — a great navigator,
Page 553 - Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.
Page 504 - No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Page 515 - It has been before observed that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion...
Page 658 - And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English...
Page 659 - I have always been strongly in favor of secular education, in the sense of education without theology; but I must confess I have been no less seriously perplexed to know by what practical measures the religious feeling, which is the essential basis of conduct, was to be kept up, in the present utterly chaotic state of opinion on these matters, without the use of the Bible.
Page 392 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth, or honors, or for worldly state...
Page 594 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.