The North American Review, 120. köide

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O. Everett, 1875
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
 

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Page 415 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Page 380 - O ! th" exceeding grace Of highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 339 - The Lord descended from above And bowed the heavens high, And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky ; " On cherubs and on cherubims Full royally he rode, And on the wings of all the winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 199 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
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