The North American Review, Volume 13University of Northern Iowa, 1821 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... give a more luminous arrangement to the Pandects . Had he consulted his own judgment alone , he would undoubtedly have recast the entire body of the compilation , and given it that analytical form which modern skill imparts to ...
... give a more luminous arrangement to the Pandects . Had he consulted his own judgment alone , he would undoubtedly have recast the entire body of the compilation , and given it that analytical form which modern skill imparts to ...
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... give to the works of man . From this mass of ruins the legislator might select such materials as he thought fit for the construction of his new edifice . The Roman law was alone left , having the efficacious authority of a code of ...
... give to the works of man . From this mass of ruins the legislator might select such materials as he thought fit for the construction of his new edifice . The Roman law was alone left , having the efficacious authority of a code of ...
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Whatever could be done by the mere private authority of an individual to give a methodical system , fixedness and uni- formity to the complicated legal institutions of France , had already been accomplished by the genius of Pothier ...
Whatever could be done by the mere private authority of an individual to give a methodical system , fixedness and uni- formity to the complicated legal institutions of France , had already been accomplished by the genius of Pothier ...
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... give in alms ; so that the inscription over his grave was literally true , that for the sake of the poor , he himself submitted to live in poverty . Although second to none in that essential politeness of the heart , which consists in ...
... give in alms ; so that the inscription over his grave was literally true , that for the sake of the poor , he himself submitted to live in poverty . Although second to none in that essential politeness of the heart , which consists in ...
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hold it no strong trait of generous warfare , to give us no credit for better motives and a better spirit . Nor is the regret with which we notice this general want of liberality at all diminish- ed , by the particular allegations and ...
hold it no strong trait of generous warfare , to give us no credit for better motives and a better spirit . Nor is the regret with which we notice this general want of liberality at all diminish- ed , by the particular allegations and ...
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Page 384 - TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 458 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Page 320 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...
Page 86 - ... of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states.
Page 198 - MR. PRESIDENT : The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and of presenting myself before them, to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country.
Page 199 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union and the patronage of Heaven.
Page 241 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 384 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 246 - Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may.
Page 313 - Declarations, hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being, in that Part of America called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Northward two hundred Miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea,...