North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volumen8Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1819 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... judge . In bridge architecture , our country abounds with beautiful specimens both in carpentry and mechanical invention . But we do not build in stone or iron , and scarcely has one wood- en bridge been erected , where the plan , with ...
... judge . In bridge architecture , our country abounds with beautiful specimens both in carpentry and mechanical invention . But we do not build in stone or iron , and scarcely has one wood- en bridge been erected , where the plan , with ...
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... judge from the eminent and enlightened men , who brought forward this subject in the Virginia Legislature , and from the caution , wisdom , activity and perseverance , which have marked the proceedings of that Board hitherto , we speak ...
... judge from the eminent and enlightened men , who brought forward this subject in the Virginia Legislature , and from the caution , wisdom , activity and perseverance , which have marked the proceedings of that Board hitherto , we speak ...
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... judge of the workmanship , in carpentry , ma- sonry and other manual labours usually performed in engi- neering . To all these requisites , should be joined an easy tem- per of mind , unshaken integrity , firmness and perseverance ...
... judge of the workmanship , in carpentry , ma- sonry and other manual labours usually performed in engi- neering . To all these requisites , should be joined an easy tem- per of mind , unshaken integrity , firmness and perseverance ...
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... judge , at conquest that he aims ; a represen- tative government , religious toleration , the improvement of man- kind by liberty and the Christian religion , are no chimeras in his eyes . If he accomplish his designs , posterity will ...
... judge , at conquest that he aims ; a represen- tative government , religious toleration , the improvement of man- kind by liberty and the Christian religion , are no chimeras in his eyes . If he accomplish his designs , posterity will ...
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... judges in cases arising under the common law or under statutes already in existence . We do not belong , however , to this fraternity . Feeling no disposition to esti- mate lightly the usefulness of legislation , it yet appears to us to ...
... judges in cases arising under the common law or under statutes already in existence . We do not belong , however , to this fraternity . Feeling no disposition to esti- mate lightly the usefulness of legislation , it yet appears to us to ...
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Página 296 - Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Página 399 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Página 363 - To approve of the passions of another, therefore, as suitable to their objects, is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do not entirely sympathize with them.
Página 324 - Was passing o'er a lea; and, as she came, Methought I saw her ever and anon Bending to cull the flowers, and thus she sang: "Know ye, whoever of my name would ask, That I am Leah...
Página 271 - Man is a poetical animal: and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet, in fact, when he first plays at Hide-and-seek, or repeats the story of Jack the Giant-killer; the...
Página 373 - IT may justly appear surprising that any man in so late an age, should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others.
Página 399 - Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying, showing the Unreasonableness of prescribing to other Men's Faith, and the Iniquity of persecuting Different Opinions.
Página 364 - To approve of another man's opinions is to adopt those opinions, and to adopt them is to approve of them. If the same arguments which convince you, convince me likewise, I necessarily approve of your conviction ; and if they do not, I necessarily disapprove of it ; neither can I possibly conceive that I should do the one without the other. To approve or disapprove, therefore, of the opinions of others is acknowledged, by every body, to mean no more than to observe their agreement or disagreement...
Página 302 - When front to front the banner'd hosts combine, Halt ere they close, and form the dreadful line. When all is still on Death's devoted soil, The march-worn soldier mingles for the toil! As rings his glittering tube, he lifts on high The dauntless brow, and spirit-speaking eye, Hails in his heart the triumph yet to come, And hears thy stormy music in the drum!
Página 413 - Being who is present at all times and in all places, exhibits to the minds of his creatures a set of perceptions, like a wonderful picture or piece of music, always varied, yet always uniform...