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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... hands and stout hearts of her political and religious exiles . But a great colony cannot be improvised like a copy of verses . Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were settled by the grace of God , and by the determination of English ...
... hands and stout hearts of her political and religious exiles . But a great colony cannot be improvised like a copy of verses . Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were settled by the grace of God , and by the determination of English ...
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... hands , and would trust nothing to the discretion of the colonial authorities . The king had conceit enough to believe , that his subjects in America had not sufficient judgment to select a proper spot for their own dwellings except ...
... hands , and would trust nothing to the discretion of the colonial authorities . The king had conceit enough to believe , that his subjects in America had not sufficient judgment to select a proper spot for their own dwellings except ...
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... hands . It appears to me that in making such a selection , M. de Clérem- bault ought to have regard rather to the external appearance than to the character of the women . The Canadians , and par- ticularly the voyageurs , of whom we ...
... hands . It appears to me that in making such a selection , M. de Clérem- bault ought to have regard rather to the external appearance than to the character of the women . The Canadians , and par- ticularly the voyageurs , of whom we ...
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... hands , and to devote himself entirely to the search for mines , and to writing long de- spatches to the government containing the most doleful ac- counts of the poverty of the country and the weakness of the settlements . At this time ...
... hands , and to devote himself entirely to the search for mines , and to writing long de- spatches to the government containing the most doleful ac- counts of the poverty of the country and the weakness of the settlements . At this time ...
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... the country . It was so with the Northmen who settled in France ; it was so with their descendants , who conquered England . But on the other hand , the national language of the conquered 1847. ] Early History of the English Language . 45.
... the country . It was so with the Northmen who settled in France ; it was so with their descendants , who conquered England . But on the other hand , the national language of the conquered 1847. ] Early History of the English Language . 45.
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Page 404 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — /Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard...
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Page 121 - 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 128 - 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 404 - Metaphysician, Bard! — How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar— —while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of...
Page 432 - Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion of my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. I used to think the text in St. James that ' he who offended in one...
Page 416 - 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 276 - that a hare so often hunted, with' so many packs of dogs, should die, at last, quietly sitting in his form."— Church Hist.
Page 429 - 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 122 - I purpose that which is extraordinary, and to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country...