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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... present . " Among the proudest recollections of the Hall of Gems " ( the Hanlin ) , says the chronicler , " for a thousand years there was no day like that . " The Emperor further signalized the occasion by two con- spicuous gifts . The ...
... present . " Among the proudest recollections of the Hall of Gems " ( the Hanlin ) , says the chronicler , " for a thousand years there was no day like that . " The Emperor further signalized the occasion by two con- spicuous gifts . The ...
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... present site , but a little to the west of the present drum - tower . Kublai and his successors testified their sense of its importance by installing it in an old palace of the Kin Tar- tars . Eo - yang - ch'u , a discontented scholar ...
... present site , but a little to the west of the present drum - tower . Kublai and his successors testified their sense of its importance by installing it in an old palace of the Kin Tar- tars . Eo - yang - ch'u , a discontented scholar ...
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... present dynasty . Its constitution and functions , as laid down in the Ta - ts'ing - hwui - tien , or Insti- tutes of the Empire , is as follows : — 1. There shall be two presidents , one Manchu and one Chinese . They shall superintend ...
... present dynasty . Its constitution and functions , as laid down in the Ta - ts'ing - hwui - tien , or Insti- tutes of the Empire , is as follows : — 1. There shall be two presidents , one Manchu and one Chinese . They shall superintend ...
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... present con- stituted ; but what information does it convey ? After all we have done in the way of explanation in connection with a rather free translation , it still remains a confused mass of titles and ceremonies , utterly devoid of ...
... present con- stituted ; but what information does it convey ? After all we have done in the way of explanation in connection with a rather free translation , it still remains a confused mass of titles and ceremonies , utterly devoid of ...
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... present time , no fewer than four bureaus or colleges of history , constantly occu- pied , not as might be supposed with the history of other coun- tries and distant ages , but with the events of the present reign , and those of its ...
... present time , no fewer than four bureaus or colleges of history , constantly occu- pied , not as might be supposed with the history of other coun- tries and distant ages , but with the events of the present reign , and those of its ...
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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.
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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.
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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.