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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... matter than of manner . During the short - lived dynasties that followed the Han and Tsin , the struggle for power allowed no breathing - time for the revival of letters ; but when the Empire , so long drenched in blood , was at length ...
... matter than of manner . During the short - lived dynasties that followed the Han and Tsin , the struggle for power allowed no breathing - time for the revival of letters ; but when the Empire , so long drenched in blood , was at length ...
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... matters in general . 2. The vice - presidents shall be of two classes , namely , the readers , and the expositors to his Majesty the Emperor . In each class there shall be three Manchus and three Chinese . 3. Besides these , the regular ...
... matters in general . 2. The vice - presidents shall be of two classes , namely , the readers , and the expositors to his Majesty the Emperor . In each class there shall be three Manchus and three Chinese . 3. Besides these , the regular ...
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... matters exquisite . " It is a dangerous error , " says an erudite editor of Sir W. Hamil- ton , " to regard the cultivation of our faculties as subordinate to the acquisition of knowledge , instead of knowledge being subordinate to the ...
... matters exquisite . " It is a dangerous error , " says an erudite editor of Sir W. Hamil- ton , " to regard the cultivation of our faculties as subordinate to the acquisition of knowledge , instead of knowledge being subordinate to the ...
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... matter , and talk over with others any new ideas we may have obtained ; our single aim being a luminous perception of the truth . The intervals of business , whether the weather be hot or cold , we occupy in reading and writing . " So ...
... matter , and talk over with others any new ideas we may have obtained ; our single aim being a luminous perception of the truth . The intervals of business , whether the weather be hot or cold , we occupy in reading and writing . " So ...
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... matters ; e . g . Chow- changfah , in lecturing on the Book of Rites , took occasion to laud the magnificence of our sacrifice at the Altar of Heaven , as without a parallel for a thousand years . " " Before the sac- rifice , " he says ...
... matters ; e . g . Chow- changfah , in lecturing on the Book of Rites , took occasion to laud the magnificence of our sacrifice at the Altar of Heaven , as without a parallel for a thousand years . " " Before the sac- rifice , " he says ...
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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.