The North American Review, Band 24Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1827 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... citizens were far less extensive than now , and de- fined with far less precision . Our colonial fathers early claimed and exercised the power of internal legislation , and though they were forbidden to make any law contrary to the law ...
... citizens were far less extensive than now , and de- fined with far less precision . Our colonial fathers early claimed and exercised the power of internal legislation , and though they were forbidden to make any law contrary to the law ...
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... citizens traversed it with all the fears of a benighted traveller , who trembles along a road beset with banditti , or infested by the beasts of the forest . The government , thus urged and goaded , drew the sword with a visible ...
... citizens traversed it with all the fears of a benighted traveller , who trembles along a road beset with banditti , or infested by the beasts of the forest . The government , thus urged and goaded , drew the sword with a visible ...
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... citizens of the United States should have the free navigation of the Missis- sippi , and the use of the harbor of Pensacola . These new offers , however , produced no change in the policy of the two courts . The news of the surrender of ...
... citizens of the United States should have the free navigation of the Missis- sippi , and the use of the harbor of Pensacola . These new offers , however , produced no change in the policy of the two courts . The news of the surrender of ...
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... citizens , possessing a much nearer resemblance , than the popolo of Alfieri , to the Roman plebs . But , nevertheless , we take Shak- speare's Julius Cæsar to be a Romantic tragedy ; for if this be also Classic , then indeed that term ...
... citizens , possessing a much nearer resemblance , than the popolo of Alfieri , to the Roman plebs . But , nevertheless , we take Shak- speare's Julius Cæsar to be a Romantic tragedy ; for if this be also Classic , then indeed that term ...
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... citizens ; but why this custom has been continued in England is hard to de- termine , unless it be , that an intimate knowledge of the Latin was unreasonably and disproportionably valued , and the attach- ment to established usage ...
... citizens ; but why this custom has been continued in England is hard to de- termine , unless it be , that an intimate knowledge of the Latin was unreasonably and disproportionably valued , and the attach- ment to established usage ...
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Seite 361 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation.
Seite 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.
Seite 362 - 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.
Seite 128 - ... nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward; the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all...
Seite 471 - To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
Seite 170 - 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.
Seite 361 - 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.
Seite 121 - ... but man, and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes and ocean, deep below him; he appears indifferent to the little localities...
Seite 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...
Seite 351 - 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.