United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 8Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1840 - United States |
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... existence . With the divine prophetic gift of genius , he understood the Revolution , and had a glimpse far down the vista of its future , of the yet unknown glory and greatness of humanity to which it was to lead . Jefferson was in ...
... existence . With the divine prophetic gift of genius , he understood the Revolution , and had a glimpse far down the vista of its future , of the yet unknown glory and greatness of humanity to which it was to lead . Jefferson was in ...
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... existence , and of their passions ; bold , proud , rude , and passionate . Thus , in all parts of the country , along the sea- board as well as in the interior of the continent , in the great centres of population and in the forests ...
... existence , and of their passions ; bold , proud , rude , and passionate . Thus , in all parts of the country , along the sea- board as well as in the interior of the continent , in the great centres of population and in the forests ...
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... existence , were confronted with the events which had preceeded it and rendered it so necessary , and with the parties which were formed by the events , and were striving to mould society and the Constitution itself according to their ...
... existence , were confronted with the events which had preceeded it and rendered it so necessary , and with the parties which were formed by the events , and were striving to mould society and the Constitution itself according to their ...
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... existence for himself . Why are the work- ing classes discontented ? what is their condition , economical , moral , in their houses , and in their hearts , as it is in reality , and as they figure it to themselves to be ? what do they ...
... existence for himself . Why are the work- ing classes discontented ? what is their condition , economical , moral , in their houses , and in their hearts , as it is in reality , and as they figure it to themselves to be ? what do they ...
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... existence of a higher and a worshipped rank tends to keep them from outrage . It infuses a sentiment of awe , which prevents more or less the need of force and punishment . But it is worthy of remark , that the means of keeping order in ...
... existence of a higher and a worshipped rank tends to keep them from outrage . It infuses a sentiment of awe , which prevents more or less the need of force and punishment . But it is worthy of remark , that the means of keeping order in ...
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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!