The North American Review, Bind 48O. Everett, 1839 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... voyages in every part of the Mediterranean must have led them , at a very early period , to fix their eyes upon a spot which offered so many advantages for the prosecution of their commerce . They took possession of the coast opposite ...
... voyages in every part of the Mediterranean must have led them , at a very early period , to fix their eyes upon a spot which offered so many advantages for the prosecution of their commerce . They took possession of the coast opposite ...
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... voyages by Thevenot , printed in Paris in 1681. * Its gen- eral correctness is unquestionable ; and , as no European had claimed to have made any such discovery at the time this volume was published , but the persons therein named , we ...
... voyages by Thevenot , printed in Paris in 1681. * Its gen- eral correctness is unquestionable ; and , as no European had claimed to have made any such discovery at the time this volume was published , but the persons therein named , we ...
Side 73
... voyage up Lake Erie , while the Iroquois looked on in horror and amaze- ment , which they hastened to communicate to the Dutch at " Nouvelle Jorck . " † Over Lake Erie , through the strait beyond , across St. Clair , and into Huron ...
... voyage up Lake Erie , while the Iroquois looked on in horror and amaze- ment , which they hastened to communicate to the Dutch at " Nouvelle Jorck . " † Over Lake Erie , through the strait beyond , across St. Clair , and into Huron ...
Side 74
... voyage down the sea in question . On the day last named , he arrived at the mouth of the river of the Miamis ; a spot the position of which is thus clearly described by one claiming to have been there ; " This country , " says he ...
... voyage down the sea in question . On the day last named , he arrived at the mouth of the river of the Miamis ; a spot the position of which is thus clearly described by one claiming to have been there ; " This country , " says he ...
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... voyage and glorious under- taking . " * By a short portage they passed to the Illinois , and " fell down the said river by easie journeys , the better to observe Charlevoix , New France , ( Vol . II . p . 269 , ) tells us , that La ...
... voyage and glorious under- taking . " * By a short portage they passed to the Illinois , and " fell down the said river by easie journeys , the better to observe Charlevoix , New France , ( Vol . II . p . 269 , ) tells us , that La ...
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Side 275 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Side 276 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Side 230 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Side 244 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Side 252 - The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high ; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground ? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
Side 550 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Side 232 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, And the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; The screech owl also shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest.
Side 236 - Also Edom shall be a desolation : every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
Side 502 - I can call heaven and earth to witness that, when the Bishop laid his hand upon me, I gave myself up to be a martyr for Him who hung upon the Cross for me. Known unto Him are all future events and contingencies. I have thrown myself blindfold, and, I trust, without reserve, into His Almighty hands...
Side 514 - His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice was so perfectly well turned and well placed that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse, a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music.