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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... establish some test to which each boiler should be sub- jected before putting it in use ; and then to exact , that one of the safety - valves ( for every boat should be furnished with two ) should be loaded with a specified weight , and ...
... establish some test to which each boiler should be sub- jected before putting it in use ; and then to exact , that one of the safety - valves ( for every boat should be furnished with two ) should be loaded with a specified weight , and ...
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... establish schools for the education of engineers , or should appoint boards for the examination of candidates for the sta- tion , which no one should be allowed to fill without a certi- ficate from such board of his possessing the ...
... establish schools for the education of engineers , or should appoint boards for the examination of candidates for the sta- tion , which no one should be allowed to fill without a certi- ficate from such board of his possessing the ...
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... established in a general equilibrium the hostile elements , traced the course of the mountains and the beds of the rivers , and gave the surface of the earth its geological physiognomy . The Middle Ages are to us what the heroic times ...
... established in a general equilibrium the hostile elements , traced the course of the mountains and the beds of the rivers , and gave the surface of the earth its geological physiognomy . The Middle Ages are to us what the heroic times ...
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... established , by their important discoveries , the highest claims to the gratitude of Europe . Still poetry formed their greatest delight , and it reached its highest splen- dor in Spain under the dynasty of the Ommiades . Disdain- ing ...
... established , by their important discoveries , the highest claims to the gratitude of Europe . Still poetry formed their greatest delight , and it reached its highest splen- dor in Spain under the dynasty of the Ommiades . Disdain- ing ...
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... establish a port in some of those parts about the Straits of Anian . " This he was convinced would great- ly facilitate the discovery of a northwest passage , or a com- munication between Hudson's Bay and the Pacific Ocean . Besides ...
... establish a port in some of those parts about the Straits of Anian . " This he was convinced would great- ly facilitate the discovery of a northwest passage , or a com- munication between Hudson's Bay and the Pacific Ocean . Besides ...
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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...