American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American essays |
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... look- ing on either side over the wide expanse of the past and the fu- ture , for the sources of our enjoyment . Our duties to ourselves and to society , too , are performed with more reference to the same faculty , than to any ...
... look- ing on either side over the wide expanse of the past and the fu- ture , for the sources of our enjoyment . Our duties to ourselves and to society , too , are performed with more reference to the same faculty , than to any ...
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... looks down upon the far distant ocean , silent to his ear and tranquil to his eye , amidst the rushing of tempestuous winds , and the fierce conflict of stormy billows . He sits enraptur'd on the mountain summit , and beholds , as far ...
... looks down upon the far distant ocean , silent to his ear and tranquil to his eye , amidst the rushing of tempestuous winds , and the fierce conflict of stormy billows . He sits enraptur'd on the mountain summit , and beholds , as far ...
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... look carefully and candidly at the actual condition and prospects of our literary affairs . Grave questions are involved . Let them be well weighed . " p . 3 . Let us examine for an instant , the condition of our literature , in ...
... look carefully and candidly at the actual condition and prospects of our literary affairs . Grave questions are involved . Let them be well weighed . " p . 3 . Let us examine for an instant , the condition of our literature , in ...
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... look with hope ( for we are yet young as a nation , ) for the elevation and improvement of our extended country - but it is to the press under the influence of enlarged views , a purified taste , and that generous education which ...
... look with hope ( for we are yet young as a nation , ) for the elevation and improvement of our extended country - but it is to the press under the influence of enlarged views , a purified taste , and that generous education which ...
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... look between the covers of a magazine or an annual , for the profitable evidence of American intellect , let them display , if possible , some mental discipline , some reference to human im- provement , some tokens of liberal and ...
... look between the covers of a magazine or an annual , for the profitable evidence of American intellect , let them display , if possible , some mental discipline , some reference to human im- provement , some tokens of liberal and ...
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Page 339 - GOD, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 21 - ... harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Page 339 - That no person, who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.
Page 539 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 533 - Since our arrival at this happy spot, we have had a ham, sometimes a shoulder of bacon, to grace the head of the table; a piece of roast beef adorns the foot ; and a dish of beans or greens, almost imperceptible, decorates the center.
Page 334 - The great truth has finally gone forth to all the ends of the earth, THAT MAN SHALL NO MORE RENDER ACCOUNT TO MAN FOR HIS BELIEF, OVER WHICH HE HAS HIMSELF NO CONTROL. Henceforward, nothing shall prevail upon us to praise or to blame any one for that which he can no more change than he can the hue of his skin or the height of his stature.
Page 441 - France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," it is provided "that in case either Great Britain or France shall before the 3d day of March next so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States, which fact the President of the United States shall declare by proclamation and if the other nation shall not within three months thereafter so revoke or modify her edicts in like manner...
Page 377 - ... est igitur haec, iudices, non scripta, sed nata lex, quam non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus, ad quam non docti, sed facti, non instituti, sed imbuti sumus...
Page 341 - ... no religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under this State...
Page 339 - ... nor can any man be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship; and that no authority can or ought to be vested in, or assumed by, any power whatever, that shall in any case interfere with, or in any manner control the rights of conscience, in the free exercise of religious worship.