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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... remarkable specimen of his adherence to truth , a French engineer who was employed on board the English ship handed to him a memorial , with a request that he would transmit it to the court of France . It was signed by four hundred ...
... remarkable specimen of his adherence to truth , a French engineer who was employed on board the English ship handed to him a memorial , with a request that he would transmit it to the court of France . It was signed by four hundred ...
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... remarkable for any thing rather than for the purity of their past lives . He forgets to notice a little cir- cumstance which is incautiously divulged by Dumont , that these women , with but one exception , were made to emi- grate ...
... remarkable for any thing rather than for the purity of their past lives . He forgets to notice a little cir- cumstance which is incautiously divulged by Dumont , that these women , with but one exception , were made to emi- grate ...
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... remarkable features , but not such a similarity as would subsist between two languages one of which was immediately derived from the other . It seems probable , that both these nations are descended from the ancient inhabitants of ...
... remarkable features , but not such a similarity as would subsist between two languages one of which was immediately derived from the other . It seems probable , that both these nations are descended from the ancient inhabitants of ...
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... remarkable for one thing , the queer way in which property descends ; every child shares alike . * See S. L. Knapp's Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers , States- men , & c . Boston . 1821. p . 180 . It is not certain that John ...
... remarkable for one thing , the queer way in which property descends ; every child shares alike . * See S. L. Knapp's Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers , States- men , & c . Boston . 1821. p . 180 . It is not certain that John ...
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... remarkable personages shed lustre upon it ; but not one of them all arrests more observation , by the peculiarity and the dignity of his mien and his move- ments , than William Penn . The son of an admiral , whose character was ...
... remarkable personages shed lustre upon it ; but not one of them all arrests more observation , by the peculiarity and the dignity of his mien and his move- ments , than William Penn . The son of an admiral , whose character was ...
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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...
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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...
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