The North American Review, Volume 50Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1840 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... side . A large boat , many years ago , coming up from New Orleans , having among her freight a considerable quantity of turpentine and gunpowder , took fire at a place , where , on the one side , a falling - in bank had filled the river ...
... side . A large boat , many years ago , coming up from New Orleans , having among her freight a considerable quantity of turpentine and gunpowder , took fire at a place , where , on the one side , a falling - in bank had filled the river ...
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... side , thus allowing the water to run from the upper boilers into the lower , ) all of which are only to be guarded against by the most unremitting vigilance . The facility with which steam can be generated with a small quantity of fuel ...
... side , thus allowing the water to run from the upper boilers into the lower , ) all of which are only to be guarded against by the most unremitting vigilance . The facility with which steam can be generated with a small quantity of fuel ...
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... side attracts their attention . An explosion on the Mississippi several years ago , one of the most destructive which , up to that time , had ever happened , was occasioned by the passengers crowding to one side , in their anxiety to ...
... side attracts their attention . An explosion on the Mississippi several years ago , one of the most destructive which , up to that time , had ever happened , was occasioned by the passengers crowding to one side , in their anxiety to ...
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... side of the mountains . For we can hardly suppose him so gulli- ble as to place any reliance on the framed certificate ( of an inspector who knows no more about it , nor has much more chance of knowing , than himself , ) which sets ...
... side of the mountains . For we can hardly suppose him so gulli- ble as to place any reliance on the framed certificate ( of an inspector who knows no more about it , nor has much more chance of knowing , than himself , ) which sets ...
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... side of the Apen- nines , the lands of the Sabines and Umbri , is possessed by that Levitical spirit , by which talent of all kinds is exclusively directed to the altar and its intrigues . The very counte- nance and accents of the ...
... side of the Apen- nines , the lands of the Sabines and Umbri , is possessed by that Levitical spirit , by which talent of all kinds is exclusively directed to the altar and its intrigues . The very counte- nance and accents of the ...
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Page 193 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 343 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 270 - And with them the Being Beauteous,' Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven.
Page 293 - CV. *HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late EDWARD BURTON, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
Page 344 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 371 - I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Page 268 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Page 135 - ... to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed...
Page 269 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 506 - The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth, and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...