The North American Review, Band 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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... Church in the Seminary of the Madonna della Salute . The tourist who de- sires to see the Titians and Tintorettos in the sacristy of this superb church , or to wonder at the cold splendors of the in- terior of the temple , is sometimes ...
... Church in the Seminary of the Madonna della Salute . The tourist who de- sires to see the Titians and Tintorettos in the sacristy of this superb church , or to wonder at the cold splendors of the in- terior of the temple , is sometimes ...
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... church - craft , and considers how different , after all , is the Christ of church - craft from the Christ of the Gospels , we think he will forgive his seeming profanity for his actual wit . " THE PLEBISCITE . " When all Bologna rose ...
... church - craft , and considers how different , after all , is the Christ of church - craft from the Christ of the Gospels , we think he will forgive his seeming profanity for his actual wit . " THE PLEBISCITE . " When all Bologna rose ...
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... Church to secular law , and the abolition of all her privi- leges : " WILLING OR LOATH . " Willing or loath , the flames to heaven tend , Willing or loath , the waters downward flow , Willing or loath , when lightning strokes descend ...
... Church to secular law , and the abolition of all her privi- leges : " WILLING OR LOATH . " Willing or loath , the flames to heaven tend , Willing or loath , the waters downward flow , Willing or loath , when lightning strokes descend ...
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... church in the family coach drawn by eight oxen , a stately and patriarchal mode , which arose from the necessity of having " the strong pull , the long pull , and the pull all together " of the bovine team , to which the power of horses ...
... church in the family coach drawn by eight oxen , a stately and patriarchal mode , which arose from the necessity of having " the strong pull , the long pull , and the pull all together " of the bovine team , to which the power of horses ...
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... Church ] than I. " Bishop Berkeley speaks of him with tenderness , as the " poor dead Dean . " When the Princess of Wales , afterwards Queen Caroline , " insisted upon your wit and good conversation , " writes Dr. Arbuth- not to Swift ...
... Church ] than I. " Bishop Berkeley speaks of him with tenderness , as the " poor dead Dean . " When the Princess of Wales , afterwards Queen Caroline , " insisted upon your wit and good conversation , " writes Dr. Arbuth- not to Swift ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 663 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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,...
Seite 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.