The North American Review, Svazek 22University of Northern Iowa, 1826 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Strana 38
... passage , ' ars est celare artem . ' His eloquence always strikes us , as the true eloquence of nature , the language ... passages which can be easily distinguished , and conveniently detached from everything around them , by occasional ...
... passage , ' ars est celare artem . ' His eloquence always strikes us , as the true eloquence of nature , the language ... passages which can be easily distinguished , and conveniently detached from everything around them , by occasional ...
Strana 39
... passage , which we shall select , is the comparison in the second Olynthiac between the Athenians of the time of Demosthenes , and their illustrious ancestors . ' These our ancestors , therefore , whom the orators never courted , never ...
... passage , which we shall select , is the comparison in the second Olynthiac between the Athenians of the time of Demosthenes , and their illustrious ancestors . ' These our ancestors , therefore , whom the orators never courted , never ...
Strana 40
... passage . It affords , in the first place , a singular instance of the indiffer- ence to mere oratorical display , which we have already men- tioned as a striking quality of Demosthenes . What tempting opportunities are here disregarded ...
... passage . It affords , in the first place , a singular instance of the indiffer- ence to mere oratorical display , which we have already men- tioned as a striking quality of Demosthenes . What tempting opportunities are here disregarded ...
Strana 41
... passage is far from a singular instance in which he displays a sincerity , which the most conscientious lover of strict and abstract truth would deem worthy of high applause . His orations are full of the most pointed and caustic ...
... passage is far from a singular instance in which he displays a sincerity , which the most conscientious lover of strict and abstract truth would deem worthy of high applause . His orations are full of the most pointed and caustic ...
Strana 43
... passages , violent as they are , contain nothing which , if true , could not be decently told , and that they are free from that disgusting vulgarity , which disfigures those of Cicero against Piso and Antony . The lines in italics ...
... passages , violent as they are , contain nothing which , if true , could not be decently told , and that they are free from that disgusting vulgarity , which disfigures those of Cicero against Piso and Antony . The lines in italics ...
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Strana 389 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Strana 390 - He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Strana 390 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 370 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Strana 61 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Strana 438 - Take thy banner ! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it ! — till our homes are free ! Guard it ! — God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then.
Strana 384 - What can be your reasons?" "Reason first - You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second - I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third - You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "If you are decided, I will do as well as I can.
Strana 391 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Strana 433 - To banquet on the dead ; Nor how, when strangers found his bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within his distant home ; And dreamed, and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they looked — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen.
Strana 381 - Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland...