The North American Review, Volume 119Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1874 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... close of the last year , the Emperor , by special decree , referred to the Academy the responsibility of proposing honorific titles for the Empress dowager and the Empress mother . The result was the pair of euphonious pendants , K ...
... close of the last year , the Emperor , by special decree , referred to the Academy the responsibility of proposing honorific titles for the Empress dowager and the Empress mother . The result was the pair of euphonious pendants , K ...
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... close of the year transferred to the custody of the Inner Council . " Besides these dynastic histories , there are topographical his- tories of provinces , prefectures , districts , and even of towns and villages , in number and extent ...
... close of the year transferred to the custody of the Inner Council . " Besides these dynastic histories , there are topographical his- tories of provinces , prefectures , districts , and even of towns and villages , in number and extent ...
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... close with the fourth year of his reign ) , I find nothing of sufficient interest to be worth the space it would occupy . Thus far the Emperors ; what the Hanlin say to them in conversation or formal discourse is not recorded . But we ...
... close with the fourth year of his reign ) , I find nothing of sufficient interest to be worth the space it would occupy . Thus far the Emperors ; what the Hanlin say to them in conversation or formal discourse is not recorded . But we ...
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... close of the first term . So opened the one great controversy in American politics , - the relation which the general government should bear to the governments of the several States ; in other words , the question of centralization ...
... close of the first term . So opened the one great controversy in American politics , - the relation which the general government should bear to the governments of the several States ; in other words , the question of centralization ...
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... close of war the era of good feeling opened , which lasted without interruption , save for personal quarrels among public men , until 1828. The admission of Missouri at one mo- ment seemed likely to precipitate the slavery question ...
... close of war the era of good feeling opened , which lasted without interruption , save for personal quarrels among public men , until 1828. The admission of Missouri at one mo- ment seemed likely to precipitate the slavery question ...
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Page 33 - ... absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government. The people ought, consequently, to have a particular attention to all those principles, in the choice of their officers and representatives: and they have a right to require of their lawgivers and magistrates an exact and constant observance of them, in the formation and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of the commonwealth.
Page 39 - I understand him to maintain, that the ultimate power of judging of the constitutional extent of its own authority is not lodged exclusively in the general government, or any branch of it; but that, on the contrary, the States may lawfully decide for themselves, and each State for itself, whether, in a given case, the Act of the general government transcends its power.
Page 457 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of " The Thirty Years
Page 225 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Page 37 - ... for these objects, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. The constitution and laws of a state, so far as they are repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These states are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire. — for some purposes sovereign, for some purposes subordinate.
Page 74 - I may be positive in, — that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.
Page 36 - That this assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government as resulting from the compact, to which the States alone are parties...
Page 36 - States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 105 - J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté Qui faisait croire à mon génie. Quand j'ai connu la Vérité, J'ai cru que c'était une amie ; Quand je l'ai comprise et sentie, J'en étais déjà dégoûté . Et pourtant elle est éternelle, Et ceux qui se sont passés d'elle Ici-bas ont tout ignoré. Dieu...
Page 39 - I understand the honorable gentleman from South Carolina to maintain, that it is a right of the state legislatures to interfere, whenever, in their judgment, this government transcends its constitutional limits, and to arrest the operation of its laws.