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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... original selection and designation of the President , and then to dissolve without having any other function to perform , and with no field for the exercise of those powers and qualities by which fame or popularity is to be gained . How ...
... original selection and designation of the President , and then to dissolve without having any other function to perform , and with no field for the exercise of those powers and qualities by which fame or popularity is to be gained . How ...
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... original , that his works are certain to fascinate the reader in spite of the slovenly mannerism of his writing . One of the bad results of an inferior style and of a want of proper reticence in a writer is that the reader who has read ...
... original , that his works are certain to fascinate the reader in spite of the slovenly mannerism of his writing . One of the bad results of an inferior style and of a want of proper reticence in a writer is that the reader who has read ...
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... original theory required in order to obtain the supreme triumph of verified prediction , as when Clairaut foretold the precise amount of delay in the reappearance of Halley's comet caused by the interfering attractions of Jupiter and ...
... original theory required in order to obtain the supreme triumph of verified prediction , as when Clairaut foretold the precise amount of delay in the reappearance of Halley's comet caused by the interfering attractions of Jupiter and ...
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... original through the accumulated inheritance of minute individual modifications ; and , secondly , that such modifications have been ac- " cumulated mainly , or in great part , through the 1877. ] 95 The Triumph of Darwinism .
... original through the accumulated inheritance of minute individual modifications ; and , secondly , that such modifications have been ac- " cumulated mainly , or in great part , through the 1877. ] 95 The Triumph of Darwinism .
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... original , one might well be ex- cused for doubting whether the phenomena of nature have any rational meaning whatever . Of like import are many of the more special facts of embryology , such as the useless rudiments of hind limbs in ...
... original , one might well be ex- cused for doubting whether the phenomena of nature have any rational meaning whatever . Of like import are many of the more special facts of embryology , such as the useless rudiments of hind limbs in ...
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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...