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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... foreign trade of the city flourished satisfactorily ; but hidden causes must have been at work , for the crisis of 1857 seems to have given it a shock from which it has never recovered . Between 1836 and 1855 , the yearly foreign ...
... foreign trade of the city flourished satisfactorily ; but hidden causes must have been at work , for the crisis of 1857 seems to have given it a shock from which it has never recovered . Between 1836 and 1855 , the yearly foreign ...
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... foreign ports of the North Atlantic was little if at all larger than that of Boston , her traffic beyond the seas was nine times as great . * The trade of Boston with the British Provinces was during those years more than twice that of ...
... foreign ports of the North Atlantic was little if at all larger than that of Boston , her traffic beyond the seas was nine times as great . * The trade of Boston with the British Provinces was during those years more than twice that of ...
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... foreign trade of this country , and Boston seems likely soon to lose the remnant of it which she still retains . Not so Liverpool . Her steam navigation with America has not passed to London . In the month of March , 1867 , she cleared ...
... foreign trade of this country , and Boston seems likely soon to lose the remnant of it which she still retains . Not so Liverpool . Her steam navigation with America has not passed to London . In the month of March , 1867 , she cleared ...
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... foreign engineer were to walk over some of the railroads which are supposed to be as safe as any others in the country , and examine their structures critically , possibly seeing a road- bed half covered with grass , sleepers so much ...
... foreign engineer were to walk over some of the railroads which are supposed to be as safe as any others in the country , and examine their structures critically , possibly seeing a road- bed half covered with grass , sleepers so much ...
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... foreign countries , in order that the English manufacturer might get the raw material at the cheapest rate and with the least competition . Even Sir William Temple , when consulted by the Lord Lieutenant in 1673 , says that , " as in ...
... foreign countries , in order that the English manufacturer might get the raw material at the cheapest rate and with the least competition . Even Sir William Temple , when consulted by the Lord Lieutenant in 1673 , says that , " as in ...
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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.