The North American Review, Band 124Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1877 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... equal extent . By civil service reform is meant the change of the system upon which that service is adminis- tered . It means the abolition of the spoils system and its necessary consequences . It means the disengaging of our civil ...
... equal extent . By civil service reform is meant the change of the system upon which that service is adminis- tered . It means the abolition of the spoils system and its necessary consequences . It means the disengaging of our civil ...
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... equal rights of all , with the gift of the unlimited right of suffrage to the whole body of emancipated slaves , in all their ignorance , weakness , credulity , and brutishness . And we have restored to the exercise of their civil and ...
... equal rights of all , with the gift of the unlimited right of suffrage to the whole body of emancipated slaves , in all their ignorance , weakness , credulity , and brutishness . And we have restored to the exercise of their civil and ...
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... equal power in depicting the life of the gentry and of the upper middle classes of provincial England . The general tone of the society is finely indicated , while every individual in it is distinguished from the rest by some subtle ...
... equal power in depicting the life of the gentry and of the upper middle classes of provincial England . The general tone of the society is finely indicated , while every individual in it is distinguished from the rest by some subtle ...
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... equal in intensity throughout the sentence , or that their maxima and minima should alternate in regular periods like the so - called long and short syllables of a metre . There being no periodicity in the rhetorical accents and sub ...
... equal in intensity throughout the sentence , or that their maxima and minima should alternate in regular periods like the so - called long and short syllables of a metre . There being no periodicity in the rhetorical accents and sub ...
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... equal in kind and in degree , they cannot form a unity so long as their plurality is perceived as such . But when their plurality ceases to be perceptible , as is the case with the vibrations of ether , their indistinguishableness ...
... equal in kind and in degree , they cannot form a unity so long as their plurality is perceived as such . But when their plurality ceases to be perceptible , as is the case with the vibrations of ether , their indistinguishableness ...
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Seite 500 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 366 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit : Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
Seite 317 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Seite 367 - These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them — I have lived to-day.
Seite 403 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Seite 372 - Hark ! how the strings awake ! And though the moving hand approach not near, Themselves with awful fear A kind of numerous trembling make : Now all thy forces try, Now all thy charms apply, Revenge upon her ear the conquests of her eye.
Seite 34 - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.
Seite 334 - ... and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest.
Seite 380 - The last, the meanest of your sons inspire (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) To teach vain Wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Seite 367 - ... to lie Spenser's works. This I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses which I found everywhere there...