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. |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 100
Page 19
... cause of literature and science . Many of the single states have , acted on a more generous plan , and with much ... causes . We do not believe any state has done more than it should do ; but whoever will be at the trouble of look- ing ...
... cause of literature and science . Many of the single states have , acted on a more generous plan , and with much ... causes . We do not believe any state has done more than it should do ; but whoever will be at the trouble of look- ing ...
Page 22
... cause of the slow improvement of North Carolina , and one which no human skill or industry could remove , has been the obstructions to commerce , which abound along the whole coast of the state . The interior country is intersected by ...
... cause of the slow improvement of North Carolina , and one which no human skill or industry could remove , has been the obstructions to commerce , which abound along the whole coast of the state . The interior country is intersected by ...
Page 23
... cause only ; but it is obvious to a common observer , that the greatest and most operative cause of this distress is the scattered condition of our commerce , and the want of a home . market . Having no commercial city in which the ...
... cause only ; but it is obvious to a common observer , that the greatest and most operative cause of this distress is the scattered condition of our commerce , and the want of a home . market . Having no commercial city in which the ...
Page 28
... tide and the water coming out of the sound , cause the sand - banks to be perpetually changing . There is , moreover , a peculiar gurgitating action in the sands here , which 28 [ Jan. Internal Improvements of North Carolina .
... tide and the water coming out of the sound , cause the sand - banks to be perpetually changing . There is , moreover , a peculiar gurgitating action in the sands here , which 28 [ Jan. Internal Improvements of North Carolina .
Page 38
... cause which now prevents our worthy countryman , Captain Symmes , from exploring the interior of the earth through the opening which he has discovered at the North Pole ; the want of disposable means . Chill penury had for a long time ...
... cause which now prevents our worthy countryman , Captain Symmes , from exploring the interior of the earth through the opening which he has discovered at the North Pole ; the want of disposable means . Chill penury had for a long time ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Æneid alluvion America Amerigo Vespucci ancient antiquity appear astronomy atheism believe Boston Brocken called capital cause character Châtelet church circumstances civil common consequence contains Crodo doctrine earth effect English equally Europe exist fact foreign French genius Goslar Harz Hayti heaven idea important Indians inhabitants interest Italy king labour land language Latin Latin language laws learned letters liberty Madame de Graffigny manner manufactures means ment mind Montesquieu moral name of America nation nature necessary never North Carolina object observed opinion original passage passed persons Phidias philosophers political possession present principles produce question readers reason religion remarks respect revolution river Roman seems society spirit Suard supposed Swedenborg Tacitus thing thought tion true truth tumuli Vespucci Voltaire voyage wealth whole writers
Popular passages
Page 314 - And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 313 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
Page 363 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 15 - ... hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger.
Page 430 - A cause , therefore, in the fullest definition which it philosophically admits, may be said to be.*, that which immediately precedes any change, and which, existing at any time in similar circumstances, has been always, and will be always, immediately followed by a similar change^.
Page 36 - That we the citizens of Mecklenburg County do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us to the mother country and hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British Crown and abjure all political connection contract or association with that nation who have wantonly trampled on our rights and liberties and inhumanly shed the blood of American patriots at Lexington.
Page 466 - Friend of my youth, with thee began the love Of sacred song ; the wont, in golden dreams, 'Mid classic realms of splendours past to rove, O'er haunted steep, and by immortal streams ; Where the blue wave, with...
Page 215 - if the compensation allowed by law does not exceed the proportion of the hazard run, or the want felt, by the loan, its allowance is neither repugnant to the revealed nor the natural law : but if it exceeds those bounds, it is then oppressive usury ; and though the municipal laws may give it impunity, they never can make it just.
Page 27 - Carolina is a ridge of sand, separated from the main land, in some places by narrow Sounds, in others by broad Bays. The passages or inlets through it are' shallow and dangerous, and Ocracoke inlet is the only one north of Cape Fear, through which vessels pass.
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.