The North American Review, Հատոր 106Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1868 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... followed the steamships , and the wharves would have followed both , had they not , for- tunately for Boston , been firmly planted in the rapidly rising mud of the harbor . Still one channel of reviving prosperity was open to the city ...
... followed the steamships , and the wharves would have followed both , had they not , for- tunately for Boston , been firmly planted in the rapidly rising mud of the harbor . Still one channel of reviving prosperity was open to the city ...
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... followed out these abortive schemes . Most citizens of Boston can run over in memory since 1848 a long list of futile enter- prises , the projectors of which promised from them wealth to themselves and a renewed commercial eminence to ...
... followed out these abortive schemes . Most citizens of Boston can run over in memory since 1848 a long list of futile enter- prises , the projectors of which promised from them wealth to themselves and a renewed commercial eminence to ...
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... followed events of which it is a pang keen as a personal grief to read the malign force which has to - day done its worst to defeat the aspirations of a generous nation interposed then with fatal success . The troops of the French ...
... followed events of which it is a pang keen as a personal grief to read the malign force which has to - day done its worst to defeat the aspirations of a generous nation interposed then with fatal success . The troops of the French ...
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... followed its introduction to general use . It can now drag a heavy train , on a good railway , at the rate of sixty miles an hour ; and , with such a load , can main- tain that great speed without stopping for sixty miles and more . It ...
... followed its introduction to general use . It can now drag a heavy train , on a good railway , at the rate of sixty miles an hour ; and , with such a load , can main- tain that great speed without stopping for sixty miles and more . It ...
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... followed the introduction of rail- roads , and then to make some remarks in reference to that reform the author of " The Railway " considers so urgent . - 66 Of the 95,727 miles of railway which had at the end of the year 1866 been ...
... followed the introduction of rail- roads , and then to make some remarks in reference to that reform the author of " The Railway " considers so urgent . - 66 Of the 95,727 miles of railway which had at the end of the year 1866 been ...
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Էջ 130 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Էջ 663 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Էջ 100 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Էջ 322 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Էջ 188 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Էջ 554 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Էջ 146 - It is ordered, that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbours, to see, first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavour to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws : upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect...
Էջ 72 - But the world is habitually unjust in its judgments of such men; unjust on many grounds, of which this one may be stated as the substance : It decides, like a court of law, by dead statutes; and not positively but negatively, less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong.
Էջ 72 - ... one may be stated as the substance : It decides, like a court of law, by dead statutes ; and not positively but negatively, less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real aberration. This orbit may be a planet's, its diameter the breadth of the solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome ; nay the circle of a gin-horse,...
Էջ 122 - I think I have said to you before that, if my fortunes and humour served me to think of that state, I should certainly, among all persons on earth, make your choice ; because I never saw that person whose conversation I entirely valued but hers ; this was the utmost I ever gave way to.