The North American Review, Volume 65Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... passing through lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain , arrived at a bay which he called St. Louis , and thence returned to the fleet . Bienville arrived a few days after him . Con- Having now acquired a sufficient knowledge of the locali ...
... passing through lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain , arrived at a bay which he called St. Louis , and thence returned to the fleet . Bienville arrived a few days after him . Con- Having now acquired a sufficient knowledge of the locali ...
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... passed the see , the zeer of grace 1322 , that have passed manye londes , and many yles and contrees , and cerched manye fulle straunge places , and have ben in manye a fulle gode honourable com- panye and at manye a faire dede of armes ...
... passed the see , the zeer of grace 1322 , that have passed manye londes , and many yles and contrees , and cerched manye fulle straunge places , and have ben in manye a fulle gode honourable com- panye and at manye a faire dede of armes ...
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... passed through its changing scenes without losing the freshness and vivacity of youthful feeling and imagination . " As a poet , Chaucer certainly deserves all the praise which has been so liberally bestowed on him ; but there have not ...
... passed through its changing scenes without losing the freshness and vivacity of youthful feeling and imagination . " As a poet , Chaucer certainly deserves all the praise which has been so liberally bestowed on him ; but there have not ...
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... passing from earth , won for its mis- tress an apotheosis in the poetry of that clime whose sons are gazing from out an isle of the Atlantic upon the country of Cleopatra , and already in their strong will are moulding it into the ...
... passing from earth , won for its mis- tress an apotheosis in the poetry of that clime whose sons are gazing from out an isle of the Atlantic upon the country of Cleopatra , and already in their strong will are moulding it into the ...
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... passing the farther gate , it was closed behind them . The treachery now flashed upon the minds of the hitherto unsuspecting Mamelukes ; with a terrific yell , they sprang towards the opposite gate ; it was closed . Shut in by high ...
... passing the farther gate , it was closed behind them . The treachery now flashed upon the minds of the hitherto unsuspecting Mamelukes ; with a terrific yell , they sprang towards the opposite gate ; it was closed . Shut in by high ...
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Page 431 - A Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents.
Page 122 - That all children within this province, of the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle; but the poor may work to live and the rich, if they become poor, may not want.
Page 129 - And thou, Philadelphia, the virgin settlement of this province, named before thou wert born, what love, what care, what service, and what travail, has there been to bring thee forth and preserve thee from such as would abuse and defile thee!
Page 413 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 423 - Nature but a week or two before. Poor Col., but two days before he died he wrote to a bookseller, proposing an epic poem on the " Wanderings of Cain," in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion.
Page 273 - that a hare so often hunted, with' so many packs of dogs, should die, at last, quietly sitting in his form."— Church Hist.
Page 426 - Had I but a few hundred pounds, but 200 — half to send to Mrs Coleridge, and half to place myself in a private mad-house, where I could procure nothing but what a physician thought proper, and where a medical attendant could be constantly with me for two or three months (in less than that time life or death would be determined), then there might be hope. Now there is none ! ! O God!
Page 415 - Whether the higher order of seraphim illuminati ever sneer?" VI "Whether pure intelligences can love, or whether they can love anything besides pure intellect?" VII "Whether the beatific vision be anything more or less than a perpetual representment to each individual angel of his own present attainments, and future capabilities, something in the manner of mortal looking-glasses?" VIII "Whether an 'immortal and amenable soul' may not come to be damned at last, and the man never suspect it beforehand?
Page 377 - It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered with a bituminous cement, which time has made harder than the stone itself. In some places, where the ravines had been filled up with masonry, the mountain torrents, wearing on it for ages, have gradually eaten a way through the base, and left the superincumbent mass — such is the cohesion of the materials — still spanning the valley like an arch.
Page 317 - In 1798, the change of government took place which elevated the young attorney to the rank of a lawmaker. This change grew out of the Ordinance of 1787, which provided that whenever the Northwestern Territory contained " five thousand free male inhabitants, of full age " (not, as Judge Burnet states, " five thousand white male inhabitants "), it should be entitled to choose representatives, and have a government of its own. In this government, besides the House chosen directly by the people, there...