The North American Review, Band 101Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1865 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... less pain than the usual New England chastisement . Moreover , child- bearing was systematically encouraged by the owner , and a child who is simply " one more little nigger for Massa , " and procures a yearly exemption of a month's ...
... less pain than the usual New England chastisement . Moreover , child- bearing was systematically encouraged by the owner , and a child who is simply " one more little nigger for Massa , " and procures a yearly exemption of a month's ...
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... less a restraint upon action than to those who view him at a greater distance with what we deem a higher appreciation . This leads us to speak of the influence of their piety upon their morals . - Here we again strike upon the central ...
... less a restraint upon action than to those who view him at a greater distance with what we deem a higher appreciation . This leads us to speak of the influence of their piety upon their morals . - Here we again strike upon the central ...
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... less than a two - thirds crop . On most of the negro lots the yield was still less . Each family had planted its three or four acres with much zeal , but little manure ; and in the summer , other more immediate interests their eggs and ...
... less than a two - thirds crop . On most of the negro lots the yield was still less . Each family had planted its three or four acres with much zeal , but little manure ; and in the summer , other more immediate interests their eggs and ...
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... less than half the wages to which the Northern farm - laborer is entitled . The price of the pecu- liar staple on which it is expended , and the temporary demand for labor at the camps , give it its principal value . Doubtless the ...
... less than half the wages to which the Northern farm - laborer is entitled . The price of the pecu- liar staple on which it is expended , and the temporary demand for labor at the camps , give it its principal value . Doubtless the ...
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... less to the negroes ' sense of fear , than to their real appreciation of right and their growing self - respect , that we look for their good citizenship . Their progress has not been confined to material concerns , though in that ...
... less to the negroes ' sense of fear , than to their real appreciation of right and their growing self - respect , that we look for their good citizenship . Their progress has not been confined to material concerns , though in that ...
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Seite 582 - Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent...
Seite 389 - This can be done without implicating the government. Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished.
Seite 484 - That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he shall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States...
Seite 487 - No ship of war of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted, while in any port, roadstead, or waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of Her Majesty, to take in any supplies, except provisions and such other things as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel to the nearest port of her own country, or to some nearer destination...
Seite 207 - And how is criticism to show disinterestedness? By keeping aloof from what is called "the practical view of things", by resolutely following the law of its own nature, which is to be a free play of the mind on all subjects which it touches.
Seite 208 - ... but which criticism has really nothing to do with. Its business is, as I have said, simply to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability ; but its business is to do no more, and to leave alone all questions of practical consequences and applications, questions which will never fail to have due prominence given to them.
Seite 582 - Walden, that there is no one in Concord with whom he could talk of Oriental literature, though the man was living within two miles of his hut who had introduced him to it This intellectual selfishness becomes sometimes almost painful in reading him. He lacked that generosity of " communication " which Johnson admired in Burke. De Quincey tells us that Wordsworth was impatient when any one else spoke of mountains, as if he had a peculiar property in them. And we can readily understand why it should...
Seite 582 - It is as easy — • and no easier — to be natural in a salon as in a swamp, if one do not aim at it, for what we call unnaturalness always has its spring in a man's thinking too much about himself. " It is impossible," said Turgot, " for a vulgar man to be simple.
Seite 484 - States as before defined, and in every case in which any process issuing out of any Court of The United States shall be disobeyed or resisted by any Person or Persons having the custody of any Vessel of War, Cruiser, or other armed Vessel, of any Foreign Prince...
Seite 582 - Solitary communion with Nature does not seem to have been sanitary or sweetening in its influence on Thoreau's character. On the contrary, his letters show him more cynical as he grew older. While he studied with respectful attention the minks and woodchucks, his neighbors, he looked with utter contempt on the august drama of destiny of which his country was the scene, and on which the curtain had already risen. He was converting us back to a state of nature