The North American Review, Volume 22University of Northern Iowa, 1826 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... land it is divided into several branches , the main current pro- ceeding to the south east , and the others to the east and north east . There are counter currents on each side of the Gulf Stream , but Mr Hamilton thinks the temperature ...
... land it is divided into several branches , the main current pro- ceeding to the south east , and the others to the east and north east . There are counter currents on each side of the Gulf Stream , but Mr Hamilton thinks the temperature ...
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... lands , is enough to confer on them an extraordinary preeminence , and a strongly distinctive character . They were proud , it is true , stiffnecked , restless , rebellious and un- grateful - but they were separate . No wonder that they ...
... lands , is enough to confer on them an extraordinary preeminence , and a strongly distinctive character . They were proud , it is true , stiffnecked , restless , rebellious and un- grateful - but they were separate . No wonder that they ...
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... land of pilgrimage . The wilderness in which the tribes roamed for forty years ; the mount from whose top their prophet received the law ; and every inch of that country , which came to them by promise , are to all Christians holy ...
... land of pilgrimage . The wilderness in which the tribes roamed for forty years ; the mount from whose top their prophet received the law ; and every inch of that country , which came to them by promise , are to all Christians holy ...
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... land of our ancestors , because we stand in lamentable need of such things , and the English have a plenty of them , and moreover because we are Americans ourselves . Our third remark is , that whenever we think a work is good , whether ...
... land of our ancestors , because we stand in lamentable need of such things , and the English have a plenty of them , and moreover because we are Americans ourselves . Our third remark is , that whenever we think a work is good , whether ...
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... land- marks from the penetration of our learned jurists and judges , still the opinion may be ventured , that under circumstances of national tranquillity the science advances with surer , because soberer steps , and that we shall ...
... land- marks from the penetration of our learned jurists and judges , still the opinion may be ventured , that under circumstances of national tranquillity the science advances with surer , because soberer steps , and that we shall ...
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Page 389 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 390 - He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Page 390 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 370 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 61 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Page 438 - Take thy banner ! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it ! — till our homes are free ! Guard it ! — God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then.
Page 384 - What can be your reasons?" "Reason first - You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second - I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third - You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "If you are decided, I will do as well as I can.
Page 391 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Page 433 - To banquet on the dead ; Nor how, when strangers found his bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within his distant home ; And dreamed, and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they looked — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen.
Page 381 - Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland...