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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... received a commission authorizing and requiring of him to visit all the harbors and maritime towns of the kingdom , to inquire into the laws , rules and usages there prevailing , and to examine the registries and collect the decisions ...
... received a commission authorizing and requiring of him to visit all the harbors and maritime towns of the kingdom , to inquire into the laws , rules and usages there prevailing , and to examine the registries and collect the decisions ...
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... received siery , from in obscurity loom and re to enjoy tha His merit co and at the tir risen to be a clerk who go debts , a trave of these ' gen capacity or o ble trading h tleman in A boarding hou the same ans he had better would not ...
... received siery , from in obscurity loom and re to enjoy tha His merit co and at the tir risen to be a clerk who go debts , a trave of these ' gen capacity or o ble trading h tleman in A boarding hou the same ans he had better would not ...
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... received the highest character for his knowledge of ho- siery , from his worthy principal . The historical muse has hid in obscurity how long and patiently he toiled at the stocking loom and retailed its productions , by day , and lay ...
... received the highest character for his knowledge of ho- siery , from his worthy principal . The historical muse has hid in obscurity how long and patiently he toiled at the stocking loom and retailed its productions , by day , and lay ...
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... receiving at last , the burial of a dog , and the memorial of a ditch , or puddle ? ' - Scholars , from a country , where they speak the nauseous ribaldry quoted from Fearon , by his Reviewers ? Persons to be compared with the best ...
... receiving at last , the burial of a dog , and the memorial of a ditch , or puddle ? ' - Scholars , from a country , where they speak the nauseous ribaldry quoted from Fearon , by his Reviewers ? Persons to be compared with the best ...
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... received the But we do not relation , and m from knowing as we must ne litical institution rights . The p learned ; our or the story of the existence is told tors in the eve accounts of the Opportunities for iar to ourselves made to ...
... received the But we do not relation , and m from knowing as we must ne litical institution rights . The p learned ; our or the story of the existence is told tors in the eve accounts of the Opportunities for iar to ourselves made to ...
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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,...