The United States Democratic Review, Volume 17J.& H.G. Langley, 1846 - United States Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... English Politico - Commercial Companies , 403 Fac - simile of Autograph of Jackson , 15 · Fremont's Expeditions , 68 Festus , 454 Game of North America , The ; its Nomenclature , Habits , Haunts , and Seasons ; with Hints on the Science ...
... English Politico - Commercial Companies , 403 Fac - simile of Autograph of Jackson , 15 · Fremont's Expeditions , 68 Festus , 454 Game of North America , The ; its Nomenclature , Habits , Haunts , and Seasons ; with Hints on the Science ...
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... English or American periodi- cals . They are altogether of a different and a higher order . Zschökke has always written with a purpose , and that an elevated purpose . Yet it must not be understood that his writings are mere moral ...
... English or American periodi- cals . They are altogether of a different and a higher order . Zschökke has always written with a purpose , and that an elevated purpose . Yet it must not be understood that his writings are mere moral ...
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... English Chrysostoms and Aus- tins ? As it is , are they all original preachers who deliver written sermons ? A sermon may be transferred as well as anything else . There are other " con- veyances " beside those of a legal de- scription ...
... English Chrysostoms and Aus- tins ? As it is , are they all original preachers who deliver written sermons ? A sermon may be transferred as well as anything else . There are other " con- veyances " beside those of a legal de- scription ...
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... admitted , that their poetry did their piety no material in- jury ; nay , that it heightened and refined it . The old English Divines form a and directs our familiar offices ; that which regards man 32 [ July , On Preaching ..
... admitted , that their poetry did their piety no material in- jury ; nay , that it heightened and refined it . The old English Divines form a and directs our familiar offices ; that which regards man 32 [ July , On Preaching ..
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... English literature . It has been said ings contain , are good at and in all that a complete library could be formed times . They have good thoughts for from their works alone , and that , our times , and noble thoughts for the too , a ...
... English literature . It has been said ings contain , are good at and in all that a complete library could be formed times . They have good thoughts for from their works alone , and that , our times , and noble thoughts for the too , a ...
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Page 5 - ... our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
Page 220 - Labor is worship !" — the robin is singing; " Labor is worship !" — the wild bee is ringing : Listen ! that eloquent whisper upspringing Speaks to thy soul from out Nature's great heart. From the dark cloud flows the life-giving shower ; From the rough sod blows the soft-breathing flower ; From the small insect, the rich coral bower; Only man, in the plan, shrinks from his part.
Page 441 - I am loth to quote, yet inasmuch as the laws of all nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the civil law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the Roman Empire, it must be owned that the principles of our law are borrowed from the civil law and therefore grounded upon the same reason in many things.
Page 220 - Labor is rest — from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill.
Page 35 - He had lived in vain. He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it.
Page 126 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Page 67 - As they who shunned the household maid Beheld the crown upon her, So all shall see your toil repaid With hearth and home and honor. Then let the toast be freely quaffed, In water cool and brimming, — " All honor to the good old Craft, Its merry men and women ! " fall out again your long array, In the old time's pleasant manner : Once more, on gay St.
Page 415 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Page 400 - To be governed at all, they must be governed with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would long since have been lost to Great Britain if civil skill and military prowess had not united their efforts to support an authority which Heaven never gave, by means which it never can sanction.
Page 248 - The whole history of the Christian Religion shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her, treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her; they cry Hail!