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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... Writings , and Speeches of William Pinkney . By Henry Wheaton . VI . DIPLOMACY OF THE UNITED STATES 92 The Diplomacy of the United States ; being an Ac- count of the Foreign Relations of the Country , from the First Treaty with France ...
... Writings , and Speeches of William Pinkney . By Henry Wheaton . VI . DIPLOMACY OF THE UNITED STATES 92 The Diplomacy of the United States ; being an Ac- count of the Foreign Relations of the Country , from the First Treaty with France ...
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... Writings , Fragments of his Diary , & c . Edited by his Son , William Theobald Wolfe Tone . IV . KENT'S COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN LAW 345 Commentaries on American Law . By James Kent . V. POLICY AND PRACTICE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ...
... Writings , Fragments of his Diary , & c . Edited by his Son , William Theobald Wolfe Tone . IV . KENT'S COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN LAW 345 Commentaries on American Law . By James Kent . V. POLICY AND PRACTICE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ...
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... writings bears indisputable tes- timony to their sincerity and frankness . Among all the works of that period , there is none of a more extraordinary or interest- ing description than the book before us . An exact journal of the first ...
... writings bears indisputable tes- timony to their sincerity and frankness . Among all the works of that period , there is none of a more extraordinary or interest- ing description than the book before us . An exact journal of the first ...
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... writing of scholars of the present day . To those who inspect it for the first time , it will seem less surprising that numerous ... writings , and has enriched the work with a large number of original and able notes . The good sense and ...
... writing of scholars of the present day . To those who inspect it for the first time , it will seem less surprising that numerous ... writings , and has enriched the work with a large number of original and able notes . The good sense and ...
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... writings of antiquity only served to increase their repu- tation ; and the venerable black letter had its just influence , being ever the more respected the less it was understood . But when the great school of children of this Western ...
... writings of antiquity only served to increase their repu- tation ; and the venerable black letter had its just influence , being ever the more respected the less it was understood . But when the great school of children of this Western ...
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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...