North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 12. köideJared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge Wells and Lilly, 1821 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... seems a hard- ship . But if you consider the Universities as a part of the religious establishment , to murmur against the privileges se- cured to the friends of the church in the Universities , or to the children of the Universities in ...
... seems a hard- ship . But if you consider the Universities as a part of the religious establishment , to murmur against the privileges se- cured to the friends of the church in the Universities , or to the children of the Universities in ...
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... seem never again likely to be awakened . While small states in Europe , whose positions we can hardly trace on our maps , are endow- ing universities , establishing and affording patronage to numerous institutions , we are contented ...
... seem never again likely to be awakened . While small states in Europe , whose positions we can hardly trace on our maps , are endow- ing universities , establishing and affording patronage to numerous institutions , we are contented ...
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... seems to have held a rank among the other states by no means proportionate to its significance in itself , or its importance in the union . Among the old states it was the third in magnitude , being larger than New York . It has lately ...
... seems to have held a rank among the other states by no means proportionate to its significance in itself , or its importance in the union . Among the old states it was the third in magnitude , being larger than New York . It has lately ...
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... seems to have been prematurely formed by the eddies occasioned by the counter currents of the gulf stream , and the rivers flowing into the ocean . The sand and alluvial substances , brought down by the rivers , were thus deposited ...
... seems to have been prematurely formed by the eddies occasioned by the counter currents of the gulf stream , and the rivers flowing into the ocean . The sand and alluvial substances , brought down by the rivers , were thus deposited ...
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... seem to hold in those cases where the population is scattered , where roads are made with difficulty , and where , at the same time , they are a great public benefit . The new roads , which have lately been made to so great an extent in ...
... seem to hold in those cases where the population is scattered , where roads are made with difficulty , and where , at the same time , they are a great public benefit . The new roads , which have lately been made to so great an extent in ...
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Page 103 - ... because they could discern in them what related to heaven and the church: they therefore placed those images not only in their temples, but also in their houses; not with any intention to worship them, but to serve as means of recollecting the heavenly things signified by them.