The North American Review, Volume 44Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1837 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 80
... companion . The heroine is the granddaughter of the philosopher Anaxagoras , and is represented as having been educated by him with sedu- lous care . Eudora is a member of the family 80 [ Jan. Mrs. Child's Philothea .
... companion . The heroine is the granddaughter of the philosopher Anaxagoras , and is represented as having been educated by him with sedu- lous care . Eudora is a member of the family 80 [ Jan. Mrs. Child's Philothea .
Page 81
... Anaxagoras , and an attachment has been formed between him and Philothea . The young man is compelled to subdue his affections to the bidding of parental ambition , and resign all thoughts of marry- ing Philothea . An attachment has ...
... Anaxagoras , and an attachment has been formed between him and Philothea . The young man is compelled to subdue his affections to the bidding of parental ambition , and resign all thoughts of marry- ing Philothea . An attachment has ...
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... Anaxagoras , Phidias , even Aspasia herself , are summoned be- fore the people to answer to various charges , brought against them by the intrigues of a powerful faction , who aimed at the political destruction of Pericles . The issue ...
... Anaxagoras , Phidias , even Aspasia herself , are summoned be- fore the people to answer to various charges , brought against them by the intrigues of a powerful faction , who aimed at the political destruction of Pericles . The issue ...
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... Anaxagoras reclined near the statue of Aph- rodite , listening and occasionally speaking to Plato , who leaned against one of the marble pillars , in earnest conversation with a learned Ethiopian . " The gorgeous apparel of the Asiatic ...
... Anaxagoras reclined near the statue of Aph- rodite , listening and occasionally speaking to Plato , who leaned against one of the marble pillars , in earnest conversation with a learned Ethiopian . " The gorgeous apparel of the Asiatic ...
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... Anaxagoras and Plato , ' exclaimed Tithonus , ' if , as Hermippus hath said , the Grecian philosophers discard the theology of the poets ? Do ye not believe in the gods ? ' " Plato would have smiled , had he not reverenced the simpli ...
... Anaxagoras and Plato , ' exclaimed Tithonus , ' if , as Hermippus hath said , the Grecian philosophers discard the theology of the poets ? Do ye not believe in the gods ? ' " Plato would have smiled , had he not reverenced the simpli ...
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Page 74 - Pennsylvania and the said territorial line: provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Page 141 - Tell me, man of military science, in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes, enumerated within the early limits of New England ? Tell me, politician, how long did this shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant coast...
Page 505 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 540 - I know a merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken.
Page 507 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of...
Page 439 - Ecclesiastes, the title of which is placed at the head of this article. His explanations of that most remarkable book, unique among the writings of either Testament, are interesting to the alumni of Andover for old acquaintance...
Page 142 - The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging : the laboring masts seem straining from their base : the dismal sound of the pumps is heard : the ship leaps, as it •were, madly from billow to billow : the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel.
Page 141 - Methinks I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous vessel, the Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a future state, and bound across the unknown sea.
Page 504 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 307 - Indians : for a party passing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry ; and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their journey.