The North American Review, Volume 81O. Everett, 1855 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 80
Page
... Moral , written from Europe , Egypt , and Palestine . By THOMAS C. UPHAM , Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Bowdoin College . IX . ART , ITS MEANING AND METHOD : ESSAYS OF HOR- ACE BINNEY WALLACE Scenery and Philosophy in ...
... Moral , written from Europe , Egypt , and Palestine . By THOMAS C. UPHAM , Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Bowdoin College . IX . ART , ITS MEANING AND METHOD : ESSAYS OF HOR- ACE BINNEY WALLACE Scenery and Philosophy in ...
Page 6
... morals . The hatred of the recent changes , and the rage for bringing back the ancient order of things , admitted of no exception , even where the thing to be destroyed was posi- tively good . The Cavaliers , on finding themselves once ...
... morals . The hatred of the recent changes , and the rage for bringing back the ancient order of things , admitted of no exception , even where the thing to be destroyed was posi- tively good . The Cavaliers , on finding themselves once ...
Page 28
... moral need which exists for prolonging its conservative spell by all the means that art and letters can afford . A few summers past , it was our lot to sit beside an ancient dame at the hospitable board of a family of manorial celebrity ...
... moral need which exists for prolonging its conservative spell by all the means that art and letters can afford . A few summers past , it was our lot to sit beside an ancient dame at the hospitable board of a family of manorial celebrity ...
Page 29
... moral life of the country , that these very qualities are as deficient now as they were promi- nent then . The physical and financial catastrophes - the legitimate results of reckless enterprise - which have so often sent a thrill of ...
... moral life of the country , that these very qualities are as deficient now as they were promi- nent then . The physical and financial catastrophes - the legitimate results of reckless enterprise - which have so often sent a thrill of ...
Page 30
... moral superiority . It is the cant of the day to repudiate the past ; but the law of compensation prevails in the social as well as in all other aspects of human destiny . We perceive that the limited hori- zon of daily existence , in ...
... moral superiority . It is the cant of the day to repudiate the past ; but the law of compensation prevails in the social as well as in all other aspects of human destiny . We perceive that the limited hori- zon of daily existence , in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alcuin Ambrose American ancient Angilbert aouls appeared Arian army artist Athens Balaklava beauty Black Sea Bosporus Boston called century character Charlemagne Charles Cherson Christian Church Cimbri Circassia Club court Crimea divine Eginhard Emperor empire England English Europe expression fact faith feeling France French friends genius give grace Greece Greek hand heart honor human hundred intellectual interest John king labor land language laws learned Lebanon less literary literature living Lord LXXXI Maronites matter ment mind moral mountains Napoléon le Petit nations nature never noble object palæstra present Prince religious remarkable Roman Rome Russia scene Schamyl seems sentiment Sevastopol social society soul spirit Sterne style success taste thought thousand tion Titian true truth Turkey Turkish Victor Hugo volume whole words writer York
Popular passages
Page 536 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 66 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 196 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Page 302 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Page 536 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 251 - Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Ah; who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge?
Page 3 - Welcome all who lead or follow To the Oracle of Apollo, — Here he speaks out of his pottle, Or the tripos, his tower bottle: All his answers are divine, Truth itself doth flow in wine.
Page 314 - ... We are as near to heaven by sea as by land," reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was.
Page 3 - He the half of life abuses That sits watering with the Muses. Those dull girls no good can mean us; Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted; Ply it, and you all are mounted.
Page 253 - Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her Speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her...