American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American essays |
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... thing generous and noble in national character , than the perpetual reference of every thing to its equivalent in common and ordinary estimation . The prin- ciple carried out , would reduce the earth to a hive , and every fragrant and ...
... thing generous and noble in national character , than the perpetual reference of every thing to its equivalent in common and ordinary estimation . The prin- ciple carried out , would reduce the earth to a hive , and every fragrant and ...
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... thing substantial or satisfac- tory . The very objection which is urged against the study of the learned languages , that they depict a state of society with which VOL . XVII.-No. 33 . 2 we have nothing in common , would , were it 1835 ...
... thing substantial or satisfac- tory . The very objection which is urged against the study of the learned languages , that they depict a state of society with which VOL . XVII.-No. 33 . 2 we have nothing in common , would , were it 1835 ...
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... thing , nor can be , as American education ; that to a certain extent the mind of all civilized nations must follow the same path , contemplate the same cycles , and love and fear and hope in sym- pathy with the same actors ; that the ...
... thing , nor can be , as American education ; that to a certain extent the mind of all civilized nations must follow the same path , contemplate the same cycles , and love and fear and hope in sym- pathy with the same actors ; that the ...
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... things , which the boy learns out of his school books , is next to nothing , -scarcely more in a course of years than the man of full - grown and well - trained faculties might acquire in as many months .. The object then is rather to ...
... things , which the boy learns out of his school books , is next to nothing , -scarcely more in a course of years than the man of full - grown and well - trained faculties might acquire in as many months .. The object then is rather to ...
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... things which have been said of it ( partly by ourselves ) , are adverse to the growth and cultivation of the more delicate and finer species of literature . I complain especially , that classical literature is little cultivated ; less ...
... things which have been said of it ( partly by ourselves ) , are adverse to the growth and cultivation of the more delicate and finer species of literature . I complain especially , that classical literature is little cultivated ; less ...
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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.