The North American Review, Volume 67O. Everett, 1848 - 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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... means to prevent their inde- pendence , or their annexation to the United States , our readers remember the claim previously stated , that natives of England are to be excluded from holding offices in the Colonies , the full extent of ...
... means to prevent their inde- pendence , or their annexation to the United States , our readers remember the claim previously stated , that natives of England are to be excluded from holding offices in the Colonies , the full extent of ...
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... means now adopted to prevent legisla- tion hostile to their interests , and to promote that intended for their certain benefit , seem to us far better than any which they can employ ; and since there are members of Parlia- ment who have ...
... means now adopted to prevent legisla- tion hostile to their interests , and to promote that intended for their certain benefit , seem to us far better than any which they can employ ; and since there are members of Parlia- ment who have ...
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... - ence eminently calculated to prepare him for the gubernato- rial chair . " In the present condition of things in British America , the situation of a Colonial governor is by no means enviable 24 [ July , British Colonial Politics .
... - ence eminently calculated to prepare him for the gubernato- rial chair . " In the present condition of things in British America , the situation of a Colonial governor is by no means enviable 24 [ July , British Colonial Politics .
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situation of a Colonial governor is by no means enviable . Every official act displeases somebody . He is not a free agent in any thing . If he attempts to govern without a party , he incurs the hostility of both Liberals and Conserva ...
situation of a Colonial governor is by no means enviable . Every official act displeases somebody . He is not a free agent in any thing . If he attempts to govern without a party , he incurs the hostility of both Liberals and Conserva ...
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... mean those dark blue eyes , downcast , but fiery , And full of memories , though so few springs Have flitted o'er thy head ? Why lean thy brow Upon thy white hands , and appear to dream , Downbent with thought , like a flower bowed with ...
... mean those dark blue eyes , downcast , but fiery , And full of memories , though so few springs Have flitted o'er thy head ? Why lean thy brow Upon thy white hands , and appear to dream , Downbent with thought , like a flower bowed with ...
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Page 408 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page 423 - There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes ; but what are they among so many ? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.
Page 142 - The condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition.
Page 408 - ... abundance to every ablebodied member of the community who does not forfeit it by misconduct. They have the six points of Chartism, and they have no poverty : and all that these advantages do for them is that the life of the whole of one sex is devoted to dollarhunting, and of the other to breeding dollar-hunters.
Page 326 - Some man will ask, peradventure, Why I take the labour to make this work, inasmuch as they will burn it, seeing they burnt the Gospel? I answer, In burning the New Testament they did none other thing than that I looked for ; no more shall they do if they burn me also, if it be God's will it shall so be.
Page 144 - In the midst of plethoric plenty, the people perish; with gold walls, and full barns, no man feels himself safe or satisfied.
Page 308 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 311 - Pretender, and is much above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge of the world extensive, and his faculties as bright as ever...
Page 171 - States shall have original cognizance, as well in equity as at law, of all actions, suits, controversies, and cases arising under any law of the United States, granting or confirming to authors or inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings, inventions, and discoveries...
Page 320 - ... and increased as well in the knowledge of tongues and other liberal arts, as especially in the knowledge of the Scriptures, whereunto his mind was singularly addicted : insomuch that he, lying then in Magdalen Hall, read privily to certain students and fellows of Magdalen College some parcel of divinity; instructing them in the knowledge and truth of the Scriptures.