The North American Review, Bind 47Jared 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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... matters relating to the West , in a note from J. Q. Adams to the Spanish minister , in the twelfth volume of " American State Papers , " in 1819 . A still more glaring case of carelessness , and one that may well excite a smile , occurs ...
... matters relating to the West , in a note from J. Q. Adams to the Spanish minister , in the twelfth volume of " American State Papers , " in 1819 . A still more glaring case of carelessness , and one that may well excite a smile , occurs ...
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... matters , while it can yet be arrived at without long study . On this ground we shall no- tice whatever mistakes come in our way , and , where we err ourselves , trust that we may find a corrector in our turn . From what we have said ...
... matters , while it can yet be arrived at without long study . On this ground we shall no- tice whatever mistakes come in our way , and , where we err ourselves , trust that we may find a corrector in our turn . From what we have said ...
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... matter , and consulted with some of the old Delaware Indians that lived thereabout , recommended the General to choose either the Miami coun- try , or the valley of the Scioto , in preference to that which he was then examining . What ...
... matter , and consulted with some of the old Delaware Indians that lived thereabout , recommended the General to choose either the Miami coun- try , or the valley of the Scioto , in preference to that which he was then examining . What ...
Side 13
... matters may be found at length in the Land Laws . The price of the land was to be one dollar per acre , subject to a deduction for bad lands , not to exceed 33 cents per acre throughout . One seventh of the purchase might be paid for by ...
... matters may be found at length in the Land Laws . The price of the land was to be one dollar per acre , subject to a deduction for bad lands , not to exceed 33 cents per acre throughout . One seventh of the purchase might be paid for by ...
Side 14
... matters we cannot dwell ; nor can we , in- deed , refer to more than a few events relative to the settle- ment made by Putnam and his companions . As this settle- ment was undertaken at a time when Indian hostilities were much to be ...
... matters we cannot dwell ; nor can we , in- deed , refer to more than a few events relative to the settle- ment made by Putnam and his companions . As this settle- ment was undertaken at a time when Indian hostilities were much to be ...
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Side 60 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Side 65 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Side 62 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Side 59 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Side 68 - Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Side 277 - It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Side 59 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Side 154 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Side 62 - ... true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth: and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express), like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Side 66 - Latin ; as if the learned grammatical pen that wrote it would cast no ink without Latin ; or perhaps, as they thought, because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur ; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished.