The North American Review, Band 77Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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which the reader desires to devote to the pursuit of the main drift of what calls
itself a single poem , simplex et unum , is so incessantly called off to look at this
and look at that ; when , for example , we would fain follow the thought and
feeling of ...
which the reader desires to devote to the pursuit of the main drift of what calls
itself a single poem , simplex et unum , is so incessantly called off to look at this
and look at that ; when , for example , we would fain follow the thought and
feeling of ...
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... lest he should lie ; almost , we might say , to feel , lest it should be a deception ,
- so he sat , crouching and cowering , in the dismal London back - street lodging ,
over the embers of a wasting and dying fire , the true image of his own vitality .
... lest he should lie ; almost , we might say , to feel , lest it should be a deception ,
- so he sat , crouching and cowering , in the dismal London back - street lodging ,
over the embers of a wasting and dying fire , the true image of his own vitality .
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Oppression is easily exercised over multitudes , so long as the resistance it
excites is confined to the individual ; but as soon as the feeling of each one is
known to all , it becomes impossible . That a Public Opinion , worthy of the name ,
exists ...
Oppression is easily exercised over multitudes , so long as the resistance it
excites is confined to the individual ; but as soon as the feeling of each one is
known to all , it becomes impossible . That a Public Opinion , worthy of the name ,
exists ...
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the means that could be made to affect the feelings of a common nature . The
spirit and form of religion , the exigencies of morality and custom , music and
poetry , and all the offshoots of the infant imagination , were within the province ,
and ...
the means that could be made to affect the feelings of a common nature . The
spirit and form of religion , the exigencies of morality and custom , music and
poetry , and all the offshoots of the infant imagination , were within the province ,
and ...
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There is as much elation , in this country , in feeling ourself to be the people , as ,
in some countries , in feeling ourself to be above the people ; and it amounts to
the same thing . The people have undoubtedly great influence upon the ...
There is as much elation , in this country , in feeling ourself to be the people , as ,
in some countries , in feeling ourself to be above the people ; and it amounts to
the same thing . The people have undoubtedly great influence upon the ...
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Seite 413 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign.
Seite 282 - ... riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? or is it rather a country that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses ? Have you not more than once suggested your wishes, and made known your wants, to congress — wants and wishes which gratitude and policy should have anticipated rather than evaded ? And have you not lately, in the meek language of entreating...
Seite 340 - I entreat you to consider, that when you choose magistrates, you take them from among yourselves, men subject to like passions as you are. Therefore when you see infirmities in us, you should reflect upon your own, and that would make you bear the more with us, and not be severe censurers of the failings of your magistrates, when you have continual experience of the like infirmities in yourselves and others.
Seite 535 - Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. Ninth Edition. Woodcuts. 8vo. 18s. - Manual of Elementary Geology ; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants illustrated by its Geological Monuments.
Seite 23 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Seite 370 - No man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name shall be stained ; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any...
Seite 422 - Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
Seite 25 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny front with shells — Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her.
Seite 282 - Tell them that though you were the first, and would wish to be the last, to encounter danger, though despair itself can never drive you into dishonor, it may drive you from the field; that the wound, often irritated and never healed, may at length become incurable; and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress...
Seite 198 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The North American Review, Band 77 Bände 181-183 von American periodical series, 1800-1850 Library of American civilization |
| Herausgeber | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Verlag | O. Everett, 1853 |
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