The North American Review, Volume 149O. Everett, 1889 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 73
... mind of the younger generation . Some of the new conditions of things are tending , therefore , -I do not say to prepare the way for a republic , but to bring about a general willingness to entertain the idea of a republic in these ...
... mind of the younger generation . Some of the new conditions of things are tending , therefore , -I do not say to prepare the way for a republic , but to bring about a general willingness to entertain the idea of a republic in these ...
Page 87
... mind at the time it was deliv- ered , was hailed as a masterly and truthful presentation of the case , is , in fact , as rich a burlesque upon the country as was Proctor Knott's ' Duluth . ' Sumner , how- ever , meant well , but he was ...
... mind at the time it was deliv- ered , was hailed as a masterly and truthful presentation of the case , is , in fact , as rich a burlesque upon the country as was Proctor Knott's ' Duluth . ' Sumner , how- ever , meant well , but he was ...
Page 95
... mind , manners , tastes , and his mode of governing . Such was the condition of a country which is now one of the six great civilized nations of Europe ; and the sneerers at negro improvement , who prate of the thickness of his skull ...
... mind , manners , tastes , and his mode of governing . Such was the condition of a country which is now one of the six great civilized nations of Europe ; and the sneerers at negro improvement , who prate of the thickness of his skull ...
Page 98
... mind coming to him through generations of educated ancestors . We forget that he has necessarily little of that power of self - con- trol , that capacity for sacrificing present ease to future good , into which , by thousands of years ...
... mind coming to him through generations of educated ancestors . We forget that he has necessarily little of that power of self - con- trol , that capacity for sacrificing present ease to future good , into which , by thousands of years ...
Page 111
... the touch of living subjects , and of the occupations and activities . of the day . His was a mind stored with graceful images . He had read deeply in the exhaustless volume of human nature ; he TRIBUTES TO ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE . 111.
... the touch of living subjects , and of the occupations and activities . of the day . His was a mind stored with graceful images . He had read deeply in the exhaustless volume of human nature ; he TRIBUTES TO ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE . 111.
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Page 119 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 517 - And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Page 735 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 744 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 407 - The nullity of any act, * inconsistent with the constitution, is produced by the declaration that the constitution is the supreme law. The appropriate application of that part of the clause which confers the same supremacy on laws and treaties, is to such acts of the state legislatures as do not transcend their powers, but, though enacted in the execution of acknowledged state powers, interfere with, or are contrary to the laws of Congress, made in pursuance of the constitution, or some treaty made...
Page 74 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow?
Page 519 - When people understand that they must live together, except for a very few reasons known to the law, they learn to soften by mutual accommodation that yoke which they know they, cannot shake off; they become good husbands and good wives from the necessity of remaining husbands and wives, for necessity is a powerful master in teaching the duties which it imposes.
Page 519 - ... attention to their common offspring and to the moral order of civil society, might have been at this moment living in a state of mutual unkindness — in a state of estrangement from their common offspring—- and in a state of the most licentious and unreserved immorality. In this case, as in many others, the happiness of some individuals must be sacrificed to the greater and more general good.
Page 299 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 154 - ... as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this : that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.