The North American Review, Volume 212O. Everett, 1920 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 12
... sense of it to an English- man in London , he said : " Yes , but you know you are do- ing much better things at home , " and though he gave me no instance he set me thinking , and I thought I perceived that in their very difference from ...
... sense of it to an English- man in London , he said : " Yes , but you know you are do- ing much better things at home , " and though he gave me no instance he set me thinking , and I thought I perceived that in their very difference from ...
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... sense of Shakesperian loss , though we were not yet aware of a Shakesperian gain . But the soul of Mark Twain which divined and uttered the inmost and most American mood has passed again so last- ingly into the American consciousness ...
... sense of Shakesperian loss , though we were not yet aware of a Shakesperian gain . But the soul of Mark Twain which divined and uttered the inmost and most American mood has passed again so last- ingly into the American consciousness ...
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... sense you might be and are not -for I don't in the least know that you might be it , after all , or whether , if you were , you wouldn't cease to be that something you are VOL . CCXII . NO . 776 . 2 which makes me write to you thus . We ...
... sense you might be and are not -for I don't in the least know that you might be it , after all , or whether , if you were , you wouldn't cease to be that something you are VOL . CCXII . NO . 776 . 2 which makes me write to you thus . We ...
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... sense of relationship with everything constituting the external world was disordered disagreeably . Accom- panying this there were a series of symptoms which consti- tute " feeling badly , " and all the functions of the body that were ...
... sense of relationship with everything constituting the external world was disordered disagreeably . Accom- panying this there were a series of symptoms which consti- tute " feeling badly , " and all the functions of the body that were ...
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... sense it is used . The subjunctive has all but com- pletely disappeared . We denote passivity not by a voice form , but analytically with the help of the auxiliary : " I am loved " , " I am hated " . Did we possess the intricate and ...
... sense it is used . The subjunctive has all but com- pletely disappeared . We denote passivity not by a voice form , but analytically with the help of the auxiliary : " I am loved " , " I am hated " . Did we possess the intricate and ...
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Page 578 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 272 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 592 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Page 675 - And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize In Nature and the language of the sense The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Page 579 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.
Page 695 - I was sufficiently aware of her infinite supremacy to resign myself, with a childlike confidence, to her guidance through the chaotic world of metaphysical investigation at which I was most busily occupied during the earlier years of our marriage. With how vast a triumph, with how vivid a delight, with how much of all that is ethereal...
Page 141 - Those of the new thought cannot render unto God the things that are God's, and to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
Page 347 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning : for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Page 36 - I know some will say it is a mingled language. And why not so much the better, taking the best of both the other?
Page 589 - The members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.