The North American Review, Volume 50Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1840 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... look as regularly , when we open a newspaper , for a steamboat disaster , as for the foreign news . The importance of the subject , and the odium which such an apparent recklessness of life was bringing on the country , have led to ...
... look as regularly , when we open a newspaper , for a steamboat disaster , as for the foreign news . The importance of the subject , and the odium which such an apparent recklessness of life was bringing on the country , have led to ...
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... look to the peculiar characteristics of the Western rivers , and to the construction of the boats that navigate them ; to the composition and character of their crews ; to the qualifications and habits of their captains and other offi ...
... look to the peculiar characteristics of the Western rivers , and to the construction of the boats that navigate them ; to the composition and character of their crews ; to the qualifications and habits of their captains and other offi ...
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... look - out that is kept , while the boat is under way , is by no means in general adequate to safety ; more especially at night . For , though this is understood to be the business of the portion of the crew on watch , yet it is a duty ...
... look - out that is kept , while the boat is under way , is by no means in general adequate to safety ; more especially at night . For , though this is understood to be the business of the portion of the crew on watch , yet it is a duty ...
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... look of the dirty cabin boys , in the " unwashed and unkempt " condi- tion of the officers , and in the squalid raggedness that char- acterizes the crew . In the spring of 1838 , it was our lot to embark at St. Louis , in a new and very ...
... look of the dirty cabin boys , in the " unwashed and unkempt " condi- tion of the officers , and in the squalid raggedness that char- acterizes the crew . In the spring of 1838 , it was our lot to embark at St. Louis , in a new and very ...
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... look for some latent and mysterious cause , when a rational de- duction from well - known and intelligible facts will furnish a solution ? " The expansive force of steam produced in a close boiler containing a sufficient supply of water ...
... look for some latent and mysterious cause , when a rational de- duction from well - known and intelligible facts will furnish a solution ? " The expansive force of steam produced in a close boiler containing a sufficient supply of water ...
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Page 193 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 343 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 270 - And with them the Being Beauteous,' Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven.
Page 293 - CV. *HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late EDWARD BURTON, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
Page 344 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 371 - I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Page 268 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Page 135 - ... to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed...
Page 269 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 506 - The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth, and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...