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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... volumes of Transactions . In the present article our attention is drawn to the volume last published , being the eighth from the beginning , and the second of the new series . The Society ranks among its numbers some of the most dis ...
... volumes of Transactions . In the present article our attention is drawn to the volume last published , being the eighth from the beginning , and the second of the new series . The Society ranks among its numbers some of the most dis ...
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... volume of Transactions contains several impor- tant papers , some of which are so purely scientific , that we should fail in any attempt to analyse them , were such an analysis within the scope of our journal . Three or four may be ...
... volume of Transactions contains several impor- tant papers , some of which are so purely scientific , that we should fail in any attempt to analyse them , were such an analysis within the scope of our journal . Three or four may be ...
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... volume is one of a good deal of interest and value . It contains a series of observations , by Mr John Hamilton , on the Winds , Currents , the Gulf Stream , and the Temperature of the Air and Water in the North Atlantic Ocean . The ...
... volume is one of a good deal of interest and value . It contains a series of observations , by Mr John Hamilton , on the Winds , Currents , the Gulf Stream , and the Temperature of the Air and Water in the North Atlantic Ocean . The ...
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... volume . The singular result of the efforts of the government to survey the coast of the United States , has been a source of serious regret to many , and of wonder to all , who have known anything of the subject . How many thousands ...
... volume . The singular result of the efforts of the government to survey the coast of the United States , has been a source of serious regret to many , and of wonder to all , who have known anything of the subject . How many thousands ...
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... volume of Transactions will fully sustain the reputation , which the Society has acquired by those it has formerly published . The first paper , containing a Description of Insects inhabiting North America , by Mr Thomas Say , occupies ...
... volume of Transactions will fully sustain the reputation , which the Society has acquired by those it has formerly published . The first paper , containing a Description of Insects inhabiting North America , by Mr Thomas Say , occupies ...
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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...