The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1Job Palmer, 1824 |
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... , than on the original struc- ture of the mind , in political science alone , did the people of Britain surpass their neighbours , and they did so chiefly be- VOL . I.-No. I. 1 cause they surpassed them in the number and excellence of.
... , than on the original struc- ture of the mind , in political science alone , did the people of Britain surpass their neighbours , and they did so chiefly be- VOL . I.-No. I. 1 cause they surpassed them in the number and excellence of.
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... mind delights to recur as a reservoir , from which , not only the purest lessons of moral- ity and taste , but the most satisfactory information of the man- ners and customs of our ancestors can be obtained . Those works , however ...
... mind delights to recur as a reservoir , from which , not only the purest lessons of moral- ity and taste , but the most satisfactory information of the man- ners and customs of our ancestors can be obtained . Those works , however ...
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... mind after literary reputation . As to our periodical literature , the vast disproportion between our means and the encouragement we afford it , has been too often and too justly a subject of complaint among our literary circles , not ...
... mind after literary reputation . As to our periodical literature , the vast disproportion between our means and the encouragement we afford it , has been too often and too justly a subject of complaint among our literary circles , not ...
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... mind ; and , possessing powers which would render the slow process of reason , memory , or imagination en- tirely unnecessary . The same limited power of conceiving what is mind , attends our speculations on the lower animals , and the ...
... mind ; and , possessing powers which would render the slow process of reason , memory , or imagination en- tirely unnecessary . The same limited power of conceiving what is mind , attends our speculations on the lower animals , and the ...
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... mind of which we can form no conception . By patient observation we may learn some of the laws , by which that principle is regulated . But here we must stop , the Rubicon can not be passed . Amuse ourselves we may with theory and ...
... mind of which we can form no conception . By patient observation we may learn some of the laws , by which that principle is regulated . But here we must stop , the Rubicon can not be passed . Amuse ourselves we may with theory and ...
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Page 101 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 101 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
Page 138 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance: commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land...
Page 110 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 109 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 138 - Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
Page 110 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 229 - Inspiring thought of rapture yet to be, The tears of Love were hopeless, but for thee! If in that frame no deathless spirit dwell, If that faint murmur be the last farewell, If Fate unite the faithful but to part, Why is their memory sacred to the heart ? Why does the brother of my childhood seem Restored...
Page 299 - Though higher of the genial bed by far, And with mysterious reverence I deem, So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions...
Page 73 - In this battle, the force of the enemy was one thousand and eighty, of whom two hundred and ninety-nine were left dead on the ground; and it is believed that many were killed in the flight, who were not found when the estimate was made. Probably few escaped unhurt.