The North American Review, Volum 106Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1868 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Pàgina 15
... existence to the cur- rent of no great river , but to a system of interior reservoirs and small rivers combined . Into those great basins , which a century ago covered a water area of eight thousand acres , more than seventy million ...
... existence to the cur- rent of no great river , but to a system of interior reservoirs and small rivers combined . Into those great basins , which a century ago covered a water area of eight thousand acres , more than seventy million ...
Pàgina 18
... existence of some lucky royal road to relief , and to soberly return to a study of first causes . For once , let reflection precede action . The community must go back to school , and it only remains to find the schoolmaster . Perhaps ...
... existence of some lucky royal road to relief , and to soberly return to a study of first causes . For once , let reflection precede action . The community must go back to school , and it only remains to find the schoolmaster . Perhaps ...
Pàgina 110
... existence , at that time , of an inconsistent theory . Swift's two letters to the sister of his college chum ( Jane Waryng , alias Varina ) also shed light upon the question . In the first , written in 1796 , he " solemn- ly " protests ...
... existence , at that time , of an inconsistent theory . Swift's two letters to the sister of his college chum ( Jane Waryng , alias Varina ) also shed light upon the question . In the first , written in 1796 , he " solemn- ly " protests ...
Pàgina 114
... - righ . Another copy of the letters was in existence , however , from which Scott printed them . The young lady is constantly trying to throw herself upon the bosom of the middle 114 [ Jan. The Character of Jonathan Swift .
... - righ . Another copy of the letters was in existence , however , from which Scott printed them . The young lady is constantly trying to throw herself upon the bosom of the middle 114 [ Jan. The Character of Jonathan Swift .
Pàgina 135
... existence is a fact , and its removal a necessity . We must pay our teachers well , or we shall have none worth paying ; none will be trained as they ought to be , none , whether trained or untrained , will continue in a call- ing with ...
... existence is a fact , and its removal a necessity . We must pay our teachers well , or we shall have none worth paying ; none will be trained as they ought to be , none , whether trained or untrained , will continue in a call- ing with ...
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Pàgina 130 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Pàgina 663 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pàgina 100 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Pàgina 322 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Pàgina 188 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Pàgina 554 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Pàgina 146 - It is ordered, that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbours, to see, first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavour to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws : upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect...
Pàgina 72 - But the world is habitually unjust in its judgments of such men; unjust on many grounds, of which this one may be stated as the substance : It decides, like a court of law, by dead statutes; and not positively but negatively, less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong.
Pàgina 72 - ... one may be stated as the substance : It decides, like a court of law, by dead statutes ; and not positively but negatively, less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real aberration. This orbit may be a planet's, its diameter the breadth of the solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome ; nay the circle of a gin-horse,...
Pàgina 122 - I think I have said to you before that, if my fortunes and humour served me to think of that state, I should certainly, among all persons on earth, make your choice ; because I never saw that person whose conversation I entirely valued but hers ; this was the utmost I ever gave way to.