The North American Review, Volume 190,Deel 2

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O. Everett, 1909

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Pagina 598 - Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. And as the island is, upon its evacuation by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will, so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the obligations that may under international law result from the fact of its occupation, for the protection of life and property.
Pagina 809 - T'HE SON of GOD goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain, His blood-red banner streams afar ; Who follows in His train? Who best can drink His cup of woe, Triumphant over pain, Who patient bears his cross below, He follows in His train.
Pagina 464 - The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Pagina 466 - ... is just, fair, and reasonable to be thereafter followed, and to make an order that the carrier or carriers shall cease and desist from such violation to the extent to which the commission finds the same to exist...
Pagina 598 - Spain will cede to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and also an island in the Ladrones to be selected by the United States.
Pagina 687 - All passes. ART alone Enduring stays to us: The Bust out-lasts the throne — The Coin, Tiberius; Even the gods must go; Only the lofty Rhyme Not countless years o'erthrow — Not long array of time.
Pagina 740 - Hazlitt used to say of himself, " I am nothing if not critical." The case with me is directly the reverse. I have a strong and acute enjoyment of works of the imagination, but I have never habituated myself to dissect them. Perhaps I enjoy them the more keenly for that very reason. Such books as Lessing's " Laocoon,"* such passages as the criticism on " Hamlet " in " Wilhelm Meister," fill me with wonder and despair.
Pagina 443 - If Jesus Christ is a man, — And only a man, — I say That of all mankind I cleave to him, And to him will I cleave alway. II "If Jesus Christ is a God, — And the only God, — I swear I will follow Him through heaven and hell, The earth, the sea, and the air !
Pagina 464 - The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing from these observations is. that a mere demarkation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.
Pagina 600 - That the Isle of Pines shall be omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries of Cuba, the title thereto being left to future adjustment by treaty.

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