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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... reason than because they are American . In answer to this , we will merely remark , that we are not blind to the miserable stuff , which is constantly thrown off by the presses of our country , but that it is not often we feel any ...
... reason than because they are American . In answer to this , we will merely remark , that we are not blind to the miserable stuff , which is constantly thrown off by the presses of our country , but that it is not often we feel any ...
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... reason , ' which they tacitly demand of us to examine as well as to purchase . But hard as it is to pay so dear for what we may call technical books , and which the world cares so little about , we want our own reports . Our age is not ...
... reason , ' which they tacitly demand of us to examine as well as to purchase . But hard as it is to pay so dear for what we may call technical books , and which the world cares so little about , we want our own reports . Our age is not ...
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... reasons of those decisions brought into one comprehensive view , and confronted with the opinions of those , whose fame is in the Year Books , and who may almost be said to have fixed the immutable axioms of the law . Numerous , however ...
... reasons of those decisions brought into one comprehensive view , and confronted with the opinions of those , whose fame is in the Year Books , and who may almost be said to have fixed the immutable axioms of the law . Numerous , however ...
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... reason , ancient orators spoke to the passions , a remark which , if founded in truth , is susceptible of great qualification . From the rank which Demosthenes held in the opinion of all ancient critics , and more particularly in that ...
... reason , ancient orators spoke to the passions , a remark which , if founded in truth , is susceptible of great qualification . From the rank which Demosthenes held in the opinion of all ancient critics , and more particularly in that ...
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... reason- er ; he bears no resemblance to those , who state their senti- ments with the calmness , as well as the precision of mathe- matical demonstration . His argument seems to flow from his heart , as well as his intellect , and is ...
... reason- er ; he bears no resemblance to those , who state their senti- ments with the calmness , as well as the precision of mathe- matical demonstration . His argument seems to flow from his heart , as well as his intellect , and is ...
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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...