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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... nature's handiwork contrasted with the imperfect joinery and forced combinations effected by human art , when man attempts to violate or overrule the laws of God . The history and present condition of Belgium , Italy , Po- land , and ...
... nature's handiwork contrasted with the imperfect joinery and forced combinations effected by human art , when man attempts to violate or overrule the laws of God . The history and present condition of Belgium , Italy , Po- land , and ...
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... natural advantages , in comparison with the inclement sky , the rock - bound shores , and the thin and stony soil of Plymouth and Massachusetts . In view of the sunny climate and lux- uriant vegetation of the former place , it seems ...
... natural advantages , in comparison with the inclement sky , the rock - bound shores , and the thin and stony soil of Plymouth and Massachusetts . In view of the sunny climate and lux- uriant vegetation of the former place , it seems ...
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... Nature in the hill and valley , Not knowing what they loved . " The sun and moon , through which He dispenses light and warmth ; the fruitful earth , which He blesses with increase ; the mysterious elements of fire and water and air ...
... Nature in the hill and valley , Not knowing what they loved . " The sun and moon , through which He dispenses light and warmth ; the fruitful earth , which He blesses with increase ; the mysterious elements of fire and water and air ...
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... nature , and therefore to increase and perpetu- ate the power of the Devil and his angels over the souls of those who used them . The council of Lestines promulgated a formula , according to which the converts were to abjure their old ...
... nature , and therefore to increase and perpetu- ate the power of the Devil and his angels over the souls of those who used them . The council of Lestines promulgated a formula , according to which the converts were to abjure their old ...
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... nature . Sir Guy , The Squire of Low Degree , Sir Degore , King Robert of Sicily , The King of Tars , Impomedon , and La Mort Artur , are the names of some . Others , probably of later date , or which at least were long after popular ...
... nature . Sir Guy , The Squire of Low Degree , Sir Degore , King Robert of Sicily , The King of Tars , Impomedon , and La Mort Artur , are the names of some . Others , probably of later date , or which at least were long after popular ...
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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...
Page 434 - A Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents.
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...