The North American Review, Volum 47

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Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge
O. Everett, 1838
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
 

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Pàgina 295 - youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which the republican constitution is structured, and
Pàgina 122 - “Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear; From each she nicely culls with curious toil And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box;
Pàgina 282 - Crania Americana; or a Comparative View of the Skulls of various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; to which is prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species, and on the American Race in particular. Illustrated by sixty Plates and a colored Map. By Samuel George
Pàgina 35 - The third of these improvements, which have produced, and will produce, the most permanent influence on Ohio, is the system of common schools. The Ordinance of 1787 provided, that, “religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be for ever encouraged.” In the previous
Pàgina 371 - language. “As a remarkable instance of patriotism, I may point out to the public, that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.”
Pàgina 290 - of the English and Indian youth of this country in knowledge and godliness; It is therefore ordered for the furthering of so good a work, that the college shall be henceforth a corporation, &c¿¿ The act went on to grant sundry exemptions of their lands from taxes,
Pàgina 384 - “Behold a wonder! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount.”
Pàgina 431 - seasons. “Hoaryheaded frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems chin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is as in mockery set.”
Pàgina 331 - any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature.” He then ascribes to them abominations too vile to be quoted; and goes on to tell us, that no magistrate ever could discover that they had been baptized, or in what way one in a hundred went out of the world. They
Pàgina 124 - unbuttoned over a close dress of scarlet, which sat tight to his body; he had breeches of the same, but they did not reach below the lower part of the thigh, leaving the knee exposed. His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in front with golden clasps.

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