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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... societies , and that the public necessities are as little effectual there as elsewhere in inducing those who are separated by personal and political repugnances to unite their councils for the common good . " The letters which ...
... societies , and that the public necessities are as little effectual there as elsewhere in inducing those who are separated by personal and political repugnances to unite their councils for the common good . " The letters which ...
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... society , without cessation and without regard to his own inclination or the sit- uation of his family . * This description of his difficulties is far from being exaggerated . Many None of the governors are natives of America . are ...
... society , without cessation and without regard to his own inclination or the sit- uation of his family . * This description of his difficulties is far from being exaggerated . Many None of the governors are natives of America . are ...
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... society , where all is artificial and unreal ; where old institutions , having lost their , significance , remain as dead forms , or as oppressive burdens . Every member of such a society is placed in a false position as regards every ...
... society , where all is artificial and unreal ; where old institutions , having lost their , significance , remain as dead forms , or as oppressive burdens . Every member of such a society is placed in a false position as regards every ...
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... society , amid the sickly luxuriance which covers that hol- low crust ; but we have , through all , bodings of the grosser misery that lies beneath , and , from time to time , dim glimpses into that terrible lower world . Between the ...
... society , amid the sickly luxuriance which covers that hol- low crust ; but we have , through all , bodings of the grosser misery that lies beneath , and , from time to time , dim glimpses into that terrible lower world . Between the ...
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... society . The one , a noble , of ancient family , of boundless wealth , one on whom nature and condition have bestowed every gift , and whose intellect and imagination have been refined and ex- alted by the highest degree of culture ...
... society . The one , a noble , of ancient family , of boundless wealth , one on whom nature and condition have bestowed every gift , and whose intellect and imagination have been refined and ex- alted by the highest degree of culture ...
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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.