The North American Review, Bind 136O. Everett, 1883 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... stage . Among the numerous acts of Par- liament signalizing the progress in liberty by means of the limitation referred to , I shall only instance a few : The right of contracting between masters and children and their guardians , and ...
... stage . Among the numerous acts of Par- liament signalizing the progress in liberty by means of the limitation referred to , I shall only instance a few : The right of contracting between masters and children and their guardians , and ...
Side 215
... stage to furnish ample depth for navigation , if it were confined in a channel of suitable width ; and it would make and maintain such a channel for itself , if it were not for the interference of the floods . The problem of the river's ...
... stage to furnish ample depth for navigation , if it were confined in a channel of suitable width ; and it would make and maintain such a channel for itself , if it were not for the interference of the floods . The problem of the river's ...
Side 216
... stage the river has a rapid current and is heavily loaded with sediment . At the overflow stage the water escaping laterally over the banks is suddenly checked in its velocity , and immediately begins to drop its load , leaving a ...
... stage the river has a rapid current and is heavily loaded with sediment . At the overflow stage the water escaping laterally over the banks is suddenly checked in its velocity , and immediately begins to drop its load , leaving a ...
Side 217
... stages . By shiftings of the channel , the formation of islands , and other causes , the subsidiary channels , called chutes , are formed in large number . If a swift current set through a chute , it enlarges ; if a sluggish current ...
... stages . By shiftings of the channel , the formation of islands , and other causes , the subsidiary channels , called chutes , are formed in large number . If a swift current set through a chute , it enlarges ; if a sluggish current ...
Side 218
... stage , every high stage , every flood , is equally obedient to the same great law . The engineer who has learned its meaning well has taken the first step toward a successful solution of the prob- lem of the river's improvement . He ...
... stage , every high stage , every flood , is equally obedient to the same great law . The engineer who has learned its meaning well has taken the first step toward a successful solution of the prob- lem of the river's improvement . He ...
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Side 160 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at...
Side 385 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Side 115 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Side 385 - Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply: " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Side 573 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Side 595 - F'ORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God, in his wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
Side 157 - ... and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers, be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates.
Side 377 - The difference, and the only difference, is this ; that, in the one case, we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world ; in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come.
Side 442 - Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff -mouth, accurately closed: — I have not traced as much of silent Berserkir-rage, that I remember of, in any other man.
Side 433 - Letters are according to all the variety of occasions ; advertisements, advices, directions, propositions, petitions, commendatory, expostulatory, satisfactory, of compliment, of pleasure, of discourse, and all other passages of action. And such as are written from wise men are, of all the words of man, in my judgment the best; for they are more natural than orations and public speeches, and more advised than conferences or present speeches.