The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 11Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1842 - United States |
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... Political Portraits with pen and pencil , No. 31 --- - Theodore Sedgwick , 85 -No . 32 Thos . W. Dorr , 201 -No . 33 C. C. Cambreleng 284 -No . 34 John Tyler 502 -No . 35 James Buchanan 648 Poor Margaret , from the German , Translated ...
... Political Portraits with pen and pencil , No. 31 --- - Theodore Sedgwick , 85 -No . 32 Thos . W. Dorr , 201 -No . 33 C. C. Cambreleng 284 -No . 34 John Tyler 502 -No . 35 James Buchanan 648 Poor Margaret , from the German , Translated ...
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... POLITICAL PORTRAITS WITH PEN AND PENCIL . NO . XXXI . THE LATE THEODORE SEDGWICK , OF STOCKBRIDGE , MASS . ( With a fine Engraving on Steel . ) XV . THE WORDS OF FAITH . - From the German of Schiller . XVI . LUCY HOOPER Poetical Remains ...
... POLITICAL PORTRAITS WITH PEN AND PENCIL . NO . XXXI . THE LATE THEODORE SEDGWICK , OF STOCKBRIDGE , MASS . ( With a fine Engraving on Steel . ) XV . THE WORDS OF FAITH . - From the German of Schiller . XVI . LUCY HOOPER Poetical Remains ...
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... political or criminal ? He had not seen any . Any armed po- lice , municipal guards , gensd'armerie or other force , under whatever names it abounds in French cities , towns , villages and fields ? It was a subject of which he knew ...
... political or criminal ? He had not seen any . Any armed po- lice , municipal guards , gensd'armerie or other force , under whatever names it abounds in French cities , towns , villages and fields ? It was a subject of which he knew ...
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... political accusations , where the passions are awakened , and where the government is interested in the result , it were idle to expect that this fundamental defect in criminal jurisprudence should not sometimes be revealed by practical ...
... political accusations , where the passions are awakened , and where the government is interested in the result , it were idle to expect that this fundamental defect in criminal jurisprudence should not sometimes be revealed by practical ...
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... political evils enough to remedy here and elsewhere in Eu- rope , and the remedy , I think , is coming rapidly and certainly . But that reme- VOL . IX.-NO. XLIX . 2 dy will not be hastened nor strengthened by assassination . It is an ...
... political evils enough to remedy here and elsewhere in Eu- rope , and the remedy , I think , is coming rapidly and certainly . But that reme- VOL . IX.-NO. XLIX . 2 dy will not be hastened nor strengthened by assassination . It is an ...
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Page 80 - No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; 3 And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 75 - All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Page 145 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Page 71 - ... there can be but one supreme power which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet, the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
Page 74 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and...
Page 563 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Page 245 - Weep no more, woful Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 343 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age sex and condition including those bound to servitude for a term of years and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Page 337 - ... public service ; to be ineligible to any office established by a particular State, or under the authority of the United States, except those peculiarly belonging to the functions of the first branch, during the term of service, and for the space of after its expiration ; to be incapable of re-election for the space of after the expiration of their term of service, and to be subject to recall.
Page 304 - Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the Man is due Who, from his private gardens, where He lived reserved and austere (As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot) Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould.