The North American Review, Volume 30University of Northern Iowa, 1830 - 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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... least , and other public officers , as should be found requi- site - the governor and magistrates to hold their offices for one year , and the governor was to be chosen from the magistrates . The governor and magistrates to be elected ...
... least , and other public officers , as should be found requi- site - the governor and magistrates to hold their offices for one year , and the governor was to be chosen from the magistrates . The governor and magistrates to be elected ...
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... least objectionable , the people were always restless , full of complaints , and struggling for a change . 6 The rule of taxation , adopted by the proprietors , gave the greatest offence , and caused serious difficulties , particularly ...
... least objectionable , the people were always restless , full of complaints , and struggling for a change . 6 The rule of taxation , adopted by the proprietors , gave the greatest offence , and caused serious difficulties , particularly ...
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... least , and knowing that France could not find the smallest difficulty in settling her own affairs without their agency , the American com- missioners proceeded to sign a treaty of peace in the very teeth of their instructions , without ...
... least , and knowing that France could not find the smallest difficulty in settling her own affairs without their agency , the American com- missioners proceeded to sign a treaty of peace in the very teeth of their instructions , without ...
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... least to what they were before the last act of parliament , I think in 1774 , if not to a still more contracted state on ancient footing . 4. A freedom of fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland . I own I wondered he should have thought it ...
... least to what they were before the last act of parliament , I think in 1774 , if not to a still more contracted state on ancient footing . 4. A freedom of fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland . I own I wondered he should have thought it ...
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... least have not come within our knowledge ; but General Miller intimates , that it was not wholly satisfactory to San Martin , who left Guayaquil in forty - eight hours after his arrival . One of its consequences , however , was the ...
... least have not come within our knowledge ; but General Miller intimates , that it was not wholly satisfactory to San Martin , who left Guayaquil in forty - eight hours after his arrival . One of its consequences , however , was the ...
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Page 86 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 105 - If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.
Page 502 - I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.
Page 309 - One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing waters mark his resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er. Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more ; Down, countless fathoms down, he sinks to sleep. With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep.
Page 522 - Here I am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison quarree, like a lover at his mistress. The stocking weavers and silk spinners around it consider me a hypochondriac Englishman, about to write with a pistol the last chapter of his history. This is the second time I have been in love since I left Paris. The first was with a Diana at the Chateau de Laye-Epinaye in Beaujolois, a delicious morsel of sculpture, by MA Slodtz.
Page 73 - Indians within the chartered limits of the British colonies. It asserted, also, a limited sovereignty over them, and the exclusive right of extinguishing the title which occupancy gave to them. These claims have been maintained and established, as far west as the river Mississippi, by the sword.
Page 532 - The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the Government, which was not done on. the purest motives...
Page 534 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 96 - Experience has clearly demonstrated that, in their present state, it is impossible to incorporate them in such masses, in any form whatever, into our system.
Page 304 - Art! sweet Art! new radiance broke Where her light foot flew o'er the ground, And thus, with seraph voice she spoke — " The Curse a blessing shall be found.