The North American Review, Volume 50Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1840 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... character . We do not undertake to assert , that we should not have bet- ter music than we now enjoy , if the Italian opera were estab- lished in some of our cities . Perhaps even centuries must pass away , before we can listen to such ...
... character . We do not undertake to assert , that we should not have bet- ter music than we now enjoy , if the Italian opera were estab- lished in some of our cities . Perhaps even centuries must pass away , before we can listen to such ...
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... character of their crews ; to the qualifications and habits of their captains and other offi- cers ; and to the temper , wants , and deportment of the class of people who form the majority of their passengers . And the result will show ...
... character of their crews ; to the qualifications and habits of their captains and other offi- cers ; and to the temper , wants , and deportment of the class of people who form the majority of their passengers . And the result will show ...
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... character of the rivers themselves forms one of the chiefs obstacles to their safe navigation . The " falling - in " banks of the Mississippi , Missouri , and some others of the streams , covered , as they mostly are , with a heavy ...
... character of the rivers themselves forms one of the chiefs obstacles to their safe navigation . The " falling - in " banks of the Mississippi , Missouri , and some others of the streams , covered , as they mostly are , with a heavy ...
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... character presents itself , few have appeared to us more unaccountable than this frantic desire to get ahead , no matter at what risk , or for what object , or haply for no object at all . A few hours gained in the time of arrival at ...
... character presents itself , few have appeared to us more unaccountable than this frantic desire to get ahead , no matter at what risk , or for what object , or haply for no object at all . A few hours gained in the time of arrival at ...
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... character of the people who form the majority of the passengers on board of these boats , may in part account for the disregard of danger manifested by them upon this , as well as upon most other occasions . Emigrants of slender means ...
... character of the people who form the majority of the passengers on board of these boats , may in part account for the disregard of danger manifested by them upon this , as well as upon most other occasions . Emigrants of slender means ...
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Page 193 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 343 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 270 - And with them the Being Beauteous,' Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven.
Page 293 - CV. *HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late EDWARD BURTON, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
Page 344 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 371 - I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Page 268 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Page 135 - ... to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed...
Page 269 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 506 - The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth, and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...