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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... Petra , the Edom of the Prophecies . By M. LEON DE Laborde . V. WRITINGS OF BULWER . The Duchess de la Vallière . A Play . In Five Acts . By the Author of " Eugene Aram , " & c . VI . POUSSIN ON AMERICAN RAIL - ROADS . • Chemins de Fer ...
... Petra , the Edom of the Prophecies . By M. LEON DE Laborde . V. WRITINGS OF BULWER . The Duchess de la Vallière . A Play . In Five Acts . By the Author of " Eugene Aram , " & c . VI . POUSSIN ON AMERICAN RAIL - ROADS . • Chemins de Fer ...
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... Petra , the Edom of the Prophecies . By M. LÉON DE LABORDE . London ; Murray . 1836 . THE French work named above is a splendid memorial of private taste and enterprise . MM . Laborde and Linant , after having previously travelled , the ...
... Petra , the Edom of the Prophecies . By M. LÉON DE LABORDE . London ; Murray . 1836 . THE French work named above is a splendid memorial of private taste and enterprise . MM . Laborde and Linant , after having previously travelled , the ...
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... Petra . The drawings from which the engrav- ings were made , are the joint productions of the two travellers ; while the text is from the pen of M. Laborde alone . whole forms a splendid folio volume , corresponding in size and plan to ...
... Petra . The drawings from which the engrav- ings were made , are the joint productions of the two travellers ; while the text is from the pen of M. Laborde alone . whole forms a splendid folio volume , corresponding in size and plan to ...
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... Petra by preceding travellers . " This would have been a very fitting addition , if well executed ; but these " two chapters " are so superficial and loose in respect to facts , and so full of mere assumptions , that the reader is left ...
... Petra by preceding travellers . " This would have been a very fitting addition , if well executed ; but these " two chapters " are so superficial and loose in respect to facts , and so full of mere assumptions , that the reader is left ...
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... Petra , mentions the Wady Garandel or Gharendel , a valley which descends from the eastern range of mountains , and opens into El Araba some leagues south of Petra . This Wady was also traversed by Burckhardt , through its whole length ...
... Petra , mentions the Wady Garandel or Gharendel , a valley which descends from the eastern range of mountains , and opens into El Araba some leagues south of Petra . This Wady was also traversed by Burckhardt , through its whole length ...
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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.