The North American Review, Volumen124Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1877 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... never been tried , the answer is a matter of opinion . But we cannot repress the fear that in time they would have become the most corrupt and most detested functionaries in the whole line of our government . Far better is the open ...
... never been tried , the answer is a matter of opinion . But we cannot repress the fear that in time they would have become the most corrupt and most detested functionaries in the whole line of our government . Far better is the open ...
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... never has been and never can be done , for the standard of fitness has been and always will be that which determines party preferment within the ranks of the party itself . The history of our civil service explains the needed reform ...
... never has been and never can be done , for the standard of fitness has been and always will be that which determines party preferment within the ranks of the party itself . The history of our civil service explains the needed reform ...
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... never been approached or likened in the world's history . The British system is absolute parliamentary government , and England must needs have in that assembly every element of wisdom the Empire can furnish , experience in all ...
... never been approached or likened in the world's history . The British system is absolute parliamentary government , and England must needs have in that assembly every element of wisdom the Empire can furnish , experience in all ...
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... of the national debt in paper promises to pay . They relied upon the maxim which one of their leaders quoted with approval : “ The public conscience is never awakened by crimes from which the 1877. ] 23 Points in American Politics .
... of the national debt in paper promises to pay . They relied upon the maxim which one of their leaders quoted with approval : “ The public conscience is never awakened by crimes from which the 1877. ] 23 Points in American Politics .
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... never awakened by crimes from which the public itself expects to reap some advantage . " The public was more honest and intelligent than they supposed , and the national credit was saved . The next attempt of the same class of men was ...
... never awakened by crimes from which the public itself expects to reap some advantage . " The public was more honest and intelligent than they supposed , and the national credit was saved . The next attempt of the same class of men was ...
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Página 500 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 366 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit : Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
Página 317 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Página 367 - These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them — I have lived to-day.
Página 403 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Página 372 - Hark ! how the strings awake ! And though the moving hand approach not near, Themselves with awful fear A kind of numerous trembling make : Now all thy forces try, Now all thy charms apply, Revenge upon her ear the conquests of her eye.
Página 34 - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.
Página 334 - ... and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest.
Página 380 - The last, the meanest of your sons inspire (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) To teach vain Wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Página 367 - ... to lie Spenser's works. This I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses which I found everywhere there...