The North American Review, Volume 24Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1827 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... persons officially responsible to the nation , of acknowledged skill and experience , and having valuable reputations to main- tain ; and we believe that public confidence may safely repose . on their correctness . They will enable the ...
... persons officially responsible to the nation , of acknowledged skill and experience , and having valuable reputations to main- tain ; and we believe that public confidence may safely repose . on their correctness . They will enable the ...
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... persons named in it , and re- ferring to better accounts of others than I could furnish , were thought necessary . Several hundred notes were prepared , and a careful collation of the whole printed volume , for the second time , with ...
... persons named in it , and re- ferring to better accounts of others than I could furnish , were thought necessary . Several hundred notes were prepared , and a careful collation of the whole printed volume , for the second time , with ...
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... Person and property are protected by written constitutions and laws , which , independently of their direct operation , have , by a necessary reaction , strengthened , fortified , and extended in the public mind , those principles of ...
... Person and property are protected by written constitutions and laws , which , independently of their direct operation , have , by a necessary reaction , strengthened , fortified , and extended in the public mind , those principles of ...
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... persons to see execution done , who had the satisfaction to see the captive king murdered in cold blood . This was the end of Myantono- mo , the most potent Indian prince the people of New England had ever any concern with ; and this ...
... persons to see execution done , who had the satisfaction to see the captive king murdered in cold blood . This was the end of Myantono- mo , the most potent Indian prince the people of New England had ever any concern with ; and this ...
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... person of high consideration , seems to have closely resembled one of our smallest dwellings , being nine feet high , with a chimney in the centre . The furniture of the early colonists was of a rather different quality . Much of it was ...
... person of high consideration , seems to have closely resembled one of our smallest dwellings , being nine feet high , with a chimney in the centre . The furniture of the early colonists was of a rather different quality . Much of it was ...
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Page 172 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Page 110 - American Ornithology or the Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson, with Figures Drawn, Engraved, and Coloured from Nature by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 4 volumes.
Page 364 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Page 252 - Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Page 363 - The power and duty of the judiciary to disregard an unconstitutional act of Congress, or of any State Legislature, were declared in an argument approaching to the precision and certainty of a mathematical demonstration.
Page 353 - It was declared by the amendment, that the judicial power of the United States should not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States, by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
Page 128 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly...
Page 171 - When, in the progress of society, land of the second degree of fertility is taken into cultivation, rent immediately commences on that of the first quality, and the amount of that rent will depend on the difference in the quality of these two portions of land.
Page 231 - Lord of the boundless realm of air! In thy imperial name, The hearts of the bold and ardent dare, The dangerous path, of fame Beneath the shade of thy golden wings, The Roman legions bore, From the river of Egypt's cloudy springs, Their pride, to the polar shore.
Page 358 - When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights...