The North American Review, Volumen56University of Northern Iowa, 1843 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... expression of purpose in a building , which is a point sorely violated in a great propor- tion of our architecture . Who can tell , in these times , when every thing is so desperately Grecian , whether he is looking on a church , a bank ...
... expression of purpose in a building , which is a point sorely violated in a great propor- tion of our architecture . Who can tell , in these times , when every thing is so desperately Grecian , whether he is looking on a church , a bank ...
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... expressions of the refinement and grace of life . The greater portion of readers will hardly sympathize with the author in his opinions as to the proper color of build- ings , though they are , on the whole , appropriate and just . The ...
... expressions of the refinement and grace of life . The greater portion of readers will hardly sympathize with the author in his opinions as to the proper color of build- ings , though they are , on the whole , appropriate and just . The ...
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... expression of their forms , and the images which they awaken in his mind . Nor will it be long before he under- takes , by his own efforts , to produce those combinations which make the most pleasing impression . He will ascer- tain by ...
... expression of their forms , and the images which they awaken in his mind . Nor will it be long before he under- takes , by his own efforts , to produce those combinations which make the most pleasing impression . He will ascer- tain by ...
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... expression of the whole . The chief requisites for producing fine effects in landscape gardening abound to profusion in every part of this country . There is no finer object than a flourishing tree . It bears every variety of expression ...
... expression of the whole . The chief requisites for producing fine effects in landscape gardening abound to profusion in every part of this country . There is no finer object than a flourishing tree . It bears every variety of expression ...
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... expression which it already bears . Hints for these pur- poses are furnished in this work , which are illustrated by sketches so abundant and well drawn , that there is no excuse for any one , who is disposed to arrange his grounds with ...
... expression which it already bears . Hints for these pur- poses are furnished in this work , which are illustrated by sketches so abundant and well drawn , that there is no excuse for any one , who is disposed to arrange his grounds with ...
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Página 265 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
Página 57 - But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the...
Página 402 - ... to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws rights and obligations of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the Slave Trade, the said squadrons to be independent of each other, but the two Governments stipulating, nevertheless, to give such orders to the officers commanding their respective forces, as shall enable them most effectually to act in concert and cooperation, upon mutual consultation, as exigencies may arise, for the attainment of the true object of this article;...
Página 223 - ... heights and watch it through the trees, and see the wreathing water in the rapids hurrying on to take its fearful plunge; to linger in the shadow of the solemn rocks three miles below; watching the river as, stirred by no visible cause, it heaved and eddied and awoke the echoes, being troubled yet, far down beneath the surface, by its giant leap; to have Niagara before me , lighted by the sun and by the moon , red in the day's decline, and grey as evening slowly fell upon it; to look upon it...
Página 221 - Long before I looked upon her, the help had come. Her face was radiant with intelligence and pleasure. Her hair, braided by her own hands, was bound about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow ; her dress, arranged by herself, was a pattern of neatness and simplicity ; the work she had knitted, lay beside her ; her writingbook was on the desk she leaned upon. From the mournful ruin of such bereavement, there...
Página 323 - ... of the majority under arms; the jury is the majority invested with the right of hearing judicial cases; and in certain States even the judges are elected by the majority.
Página 266 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 379 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 57 - And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Página 57 - Lastly, leaving the vulgar arguments, that by learning man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts ; that by learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their -motions, where in body he cannot come, and the like ; let us conclude with the dignity and excellency of knowledge and learning in that...