The North American Review, Volume 53Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1841 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... ment in the information supposed to come through the senses , which cannot be attributed to the outward impression , and the origin of which must therefore be inferred , not observed , from its characteristic features of universality ...
... ment in the information supposed to come through the senses , which cannot be attributed to the outward impression , and the origin of which must therefore be inferred , not observed , from its characteristic features of universality ...
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... ment of his chief purpose , the refutation of Descartes . His theory interpreted in this manner , when tried by the standard of our modern philosophy , appears correct as far as it goes . Indeed , his doctrine respecting the functions ...
... ment of his chief purpose , the refutation of Descartes . His theory interpreted in this manner , when tried by the standard of our modern philosophy , appears correct as far as it goes . Indeed , his doctrine respecting the functions ...
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... ment means nothing at all , unless the premise be construed into the affirmation , that the conception of body involves that of infinite space , and succession presupposes eternity ; and in this form , the argument takes for granted the ...
... ment means nothing at all , unless the premise be construed into the affirmation , that the conception of body involves that of infinite space , and succession presupposes eternity ; and in this form , the argument takes for granted the ...
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... ment against the infinity of number , we have only to remark , that it is equally applicable to our ideas of infinite space and time . Whatever force the reasoning may have , in Cousin's theory it is suicidal . If we were disposed to ...
... ment against the infinity of number , we have only to remark , that it is equally applicable to our ideas of infinite space and time . Whatever force the reasoning may have , in Cousin's theory it is suicidal . If we were disposed to ...
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... , whether the very same men could or would have made the very same instrument at any other mo- ment , before or since , than that in which they did make it , or whether , if they had , the majority of the 42 [ July , The Madison Papers .
... , whether the very same men could or would have made the very same instrument at any other mo- ment , before or since , than that in which they did make it , or whether , if they had , the majority of the 42 [ July , The Madison Papers .
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Page 401 - Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!
Page 408 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.
Page 409 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 326 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Page 62 - The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. In Massachusetts it had been fully confirmed by experience, that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions, by the false reports circulated by designing men, and which no one on the spot can refute.
Page 513 - Le monde est plein de gens qui ne sont pas plus sages : Tout Bourgeois veut bātir comme les grands Seigneurs, Tout petit Prince a des Ambassadeurs, Tout Marquis veut avoir des Pages.
Page 343 - Scioto to the intersection of the western boundary of the seventh range of townships now surveying; thence, by the said boundary to the northern boundary of the tenth township from the Ohio; thence, by a due west line, to the Scioto; thence, by the Scioto, to the beginning...
Page 72 - We must take man as we find him, and if we expect him to serve the public must interest his passions in doing so.
Page 407 - Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung ; Whose soul, exalted like a god of wit, Among the Muses and the Graces writ.
Page 432 - It will be for that government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation.