The North American Review, Volume 73University of Northern Iowa, 1851 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... Importance of the Study of the Celtic Language as exhibited by the Modern Celtic Dia- lects still extant . By DR . CHARLes Meyer . 5. On the Relation of the Bengali to the Arian and Aboriginal Languages of India . By DR . MAX MÜLLER ...
... Importance of the Study of the Celtic Language as exhibited by the Modern Celtic Dia- lects still extant . By DR . CHARLes Meyer . 5. On the Relation of the Bengali to the Arian and Aboriginal Languages of India . By DR . MAX MÜLLER ...
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... importance . " " " " But when better times shall arrive , ( whoever may live to see them , ) it will be worthy the consideration of any government whether the institution of an Academy , with salaries for its mem- bers ( in the nature ...
... importance . " " " " But when better times shall arrive , ( whoever may live to see them , ) it will be worthy the consideration of any government whether the institution of an Academy , with salaries for its mem- bers ( in the nature ...
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... importance of a wholesome training for the immense num- ber of children in London and other large towns , who , without it , are abandoned to vice and misery . The establishment of Protestant sisters of charity , and of a better order ...
... importance of a wholesome training for the immense num- ber of children in London and other large towns , who , without it , are abandoned to vice and misery . The establishment of Protestant sisters of charity , and of a better order ...
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... important . " The same feelings caused him to decline a more honorable , though probably less lucrative , situation that was tendered to him by the government ; they wished him to come up to London for the purpose of conducting a new ...
... important . " The same feelings caused him to decline a more honorable , though probably less lucrative , situation that was tendered to him by the government ; they wished him to come up to London for the purpose of conducting a new ...
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... important difference between the Keltic and Teutonic races is to be found in the ideas they entertained in regard to a future life . The Kelt believed , that as soon as his present body became dead , his soul passed into another human ...
... important difference between the Keltic and Teutonic races is to be found in the ideas they entertained in regard to a future life . The Kelt believed , that as soon as his present body became dead , his soul passed into another human ...
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Page 32 - My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Page 441 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great creator and preserver of the universe.
Page 262 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Page 263 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars. Beasts and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowls. Kings of the earth, and all people ; princes, and all judges of the earth. Both young men and maidens, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord : for his name alone is excellent, his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 34 - ANGLO-SAXONICA.— Selections, in Prose and Verse, from •^*- Anglo-Saxon Literature, with an Introductory Ethnological Essay, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Louis F. KLIPSTEIN, of the University of Giessen.
Page 492 - You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully in my Poems the feelings of human nature. I would fain hope that I have done so. But a great Poet ought to do more than this: he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings, to give them new compositions of feeling, to render their feelings more sane, pure, and permanent, in short, more consonant to [295] JUNE 1802 nature, that is, to eternal nature, and the great moving spirit of things.
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Page 485 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Page 29 - Here is a man at Keswick, who acts upon me as my own ghost would do. He is just what I was in 1794.
Page 209 - In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.