The North American Review, Volumen22University of Northern Iowa, 1826 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... minds in the cause of the Society , and thereby increase its dignity and extend its usefulness . The presidents have been successively , Benjamin Franklin , David Rittenhouse , Thomas Jefferson , Caspar Wistar , Robert Pat- terson , and ...
... minds in the cause of the Society , and thereby increase its dignity and extend its usefulness . The presidents have been successively , Benjamin Franklin , David Rittenhouse , Thomas Jefferson , Caspar Wistar , Robert Pat- terson , and ...
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... minds . The fifth article in the volume is one of a good deal of interest and value . It contains a series of observations , by Mr John Hamilton , on the Winds , Currents , the Gulf Stream , and the Temperature of the Air and Water in ...
... minds . The fifth article in the volume is one of a good deal of interest and value . It contains a series of observations , by Mr John Hamilton , on the Winds , Currents , the Gulf Stream , and the Temperature of the Air and Water in ...
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... mind of the reader , and the dialogues between Hadad , or Lucifer , and the daughter of Absalom , are the most sol- emn and tender in the work . The general outline of the fiend is that of Milton's Satan ; and it is only when we have ...
... mind of the reader , and the dialogues between Hadad , or Lucifer , and the daughter of Absalom , are the most sol- emn and tender in the work . The general outline of the fiend is that of Milton's Satan ; and it is only when we have ...
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... mind of the loving and confiding princess , doubts of the good- ness of Jehovah , and a preference for the voluptuous rites of heathen worship . But the maiden is steadfast in her faith and purity . Repulsed in one quarter , we find the ...
... mind of the loving and confiding princess , doubts of the good- ness of Jehovah , and a preference for the voluptuous rites of heathen worship . But the maiden is steadfast in her faith and purity . Repulsed in one quarter , we find the ...
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... minds of his hearers . His exordium , though highly finished , is generally brief ; he throws himself into the midst of his subject , and seems to have neither time nor thought for anything besides . To gain the assent , and not the ...
... minds of his hearers . His exordium , though highly finished , is generally brief ; he throws himself into the midst of his subject , and seems to have neither time nor thought for anything besides . To gain the assent , and not the ...
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Página 389 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 390 - He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Página 390 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 370 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 61 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Página 438 - Take thy banner ! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it ! — till our homes are free ! Guard it ! — God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then.
Página 384 - What can be your reasons?" "Reason first - You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second - I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third - You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "If you are decided, I will do as well as I can.
Página 391 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Página 433 - To banquet on the dead ; Nor how, when strangers found his bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within his distant home ; And dreamed, and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they looked — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen.
Página 381 - Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland...