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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... spirit of our fundamental law , requires recognition of the " style " designated by the Constitution . And , much as we may pre- fer the other , truly it is not so bad . I have the honor , sir and ladies and gentlemen , to pre- sent the ...
... spirit of our fundamental law , requires recognition of the " style " designated by the Constitution . And , much as we may pre- fer the other , truly it is not so bad . I have the honor , sir and ladies and gentlemen , to pre- sent the ...
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... spirit to that best kind which these masterpieces exemplify . Our fic- tion so far as it really exists is of the European and not the English make and the newer English fiction , so far as it really exists , is not of the English , but ...
... spirit to that best kind which these masterpieces exemplify . Our fic- tion so far as it really exists is of the European and not the English make and the newer English fiction , so far as it really exists , is not of the English , but ...
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... spirit , should be brought together as were the Thirteen Colonies . The facili- ties upon which they depend must be reconstituted in some other way . Left to themselves , the rebuilding of the fabric so greatly worn and ruthlessly cut ...
... spirit , should be brought together as were the Thirteen Colonies . The facili- ties upon which they depend must be reconstituted in some other way . Left to themselves , the rebuilding of the fabric so greatly worn and ruthlessly cut ...
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... spirit , which forces children to decline nouns in cases which do not exist , to conjugate verbs in tenses , moods and voices which long since have ceased to be and to make adjectives agree with nouns when agreement is neither necessary ...
... spirit , which forces children to decline nouns in cases which do not exist , to conjugate verbs in tenses , moods and voices which long since have ceased to be and to make adjectives agree with nouns when agreement is neither necessary ...
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... spirit of Huxley who said " Sit down before fact as a little child , be prepared to give up any preconceived notion , fol- low humbly wherein and to whatever abyss nature leads , or you will learn nothing . " Current notions with regard ...
... spirit of Huxley who said " Sit down before fact as a little child , be prepared to give up any preconceived notion , fol- low humbly wherein and to whatever abyss nature leads , or you will learn nothing . " Current notions with regard ...
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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.