United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 8Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1840 - United States |
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... cause its laws , judges , and officers to be respected . The political state was still more weak and more wavering than the social state . " The Constitution was formed to remedy this evil , to give to the Union a govern- It ...
... cause its laws , judges , and officers to be respected . The political state was still more weak and more wavering than the social state . " The Constitution was formed to remedy this evil , to give to the Union a govern- It ...
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... cause made . Ireland , now for the first time in such strange circuitous way , does find itself embarked in the same boat with Eng- land , to sail together ; the wretchedness of Ireland , slowly but inevitably , has crept over to us ...
... cause made . Ireland , now for the first time in such strange circuitous way , does find itself embarked in the same boat with Eng- land , to sail together ; the wretchedness of Ireland , slowly but inevitably , has crept over to us ...
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... cause of the wrong , or as to the precise mode of bringing about the remedy , we are vouchsafed not a word . This is the more to be regretted , because it relates to those points on which especially we desire to be informed . We could ...
... cause of the wrong , or as to the precise mode of bringing about the remedy , we are vouchsafed not a word . This is the more to be regretted , because it relates to those points on which especially we desire to be informed . We could ...
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... cause of uneasiness , but from a permanent knowledge that they are unjustly used ; third , the privileged orders ... causes , noble in its objects ; and certain in its ultimate triumph , because impelled by that instinct of self ...
... cause of uneasiness , but from a permanent knowledge that they are unjustly used ; third , the privileged orders ... causes , noble in its objects ; and certain in its ultimate triumph , because impelled by that instinct of self ...
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... cause to be prepared and pre- sented to the next Congress , at an early day , a plan for the sale of the Public Mineral Lands , having reference as well to the amount of revenue to be derived from them and their value as public property ...
... cause to be prepared and pre- sented to the next Congress , at an early day , a plan for the sale of the Public Mineral Lands , having reference as well to the amount of revenue to be derived from them and their value as public property ...
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Page 414 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 419 - Celestial voices Hymn it unto our souls : according harps, By angel fingers touched when the mild stars Of morning sang together, sound forth still The song of our great immortality...
Page 377 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 85 - Treaty was one of the most important events in the history of the young republic.
Page 416 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone...
Page 412 - Friend of my youth, with thee began the love Of sacred song; the wont, in golden dreams, Mid classic realms of splendours past to rove, O'er haunted steep, and by immortal streams; Where the blue wave, with sparkling bosom gleams Round shores, the mind's eternal heritage, For ever lit by memory's twilight beams; Where the proud dead, that live in storied page, Beckon, with awful port, to glory's earlier age.
Page 424 - The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West — My own green forest-land: All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung, And gather feelings not of earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries ! The Poet's tomb is there.
Page 416 - The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods, The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay...
Page 417 - Still this great solitude is quick with life. Myriads of insects, gaudy as the flowers They flutter over, gentle quadrupeds, And birds, that scarce have learned the fear of man, Are here, and sliding reptiles of the ground, Startlingly beautiful. The graceful deer Bounds to the wood at my approach. The bee, A more adventurous colonist than man, With whom he came across the eastern deep, Fills the savannas with his murmurings, And hides his sweets, as in the golden age, Within the hollow oak.
Page 326 - I'll make you toe the mark, every soul of you, or I'll flog you all, fore and aft, from the boy, up ! " — "You've got a driver over you!