United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 8Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1840 - United States |
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... means of unfunded paper mo- ney , which shall be a tender in all cases whatever . ' These disorganizing fancies were received in Massachusetts , Connecticut , and New Hampshire , by a conside- rable portion of the people ; twelve or ...
... means of unfunded paper mo- ney , which shall be a tender in all cases whatever . ' These disorganizing fancies were received in Massachusetts , Connecticut , and New Hampshire , by a conside- rable portion of the people ; twelve or ...
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... means of enjoyment , and a thousand other things , necessary to be taken into consideration in estimating his happiness , cannot be set down in figures . Even with the largest amount of wages , his discontent and real misery may be ...
... means of enjoyment , and a thousand other things , necessary to be taken into consideration in estimating his happiness , cannot be set down in figures . Even with the largest amount of wages , his discontent and real misery may be ...
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... means of in- struction , old , venerable , wealthy , and conspicuous in its professions of attachment to the spiritual and moral welfare of mankind ; with an aristocracy abounding in commercial and landed wealth , enlightened , refined ...
... means of in- struction , old , venerable , wealthy , and conspicuous in its professions of attachment to the spiritual and moral welfare of mankind ; with an aristocracy abounding in commercial and landed wealth , enlightened , refined ...
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... means for moving , such as no nation ever before had . With ships ; with war - ships rotting idle , which , but bidden move and not rot , might bridge all oceans . With trained men , educated to pen and practice , to administer and act ...
... means for moving , such as no nation ever before had . With ships ; with war - ships rotting idle , which , but bidden move and not rot , might bridge all oceans . With trained men , educated to pen and practice , to administer and act ...
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... means of rapidly drawing capital and enterprise from across the Atlantic . This would result , not only in advantage to the country , but also in direct pecu- niary gain to the government , under any plan which may be adopted for the ...
... means of rapidly drawing capital and enterprise from across the Atlantic . This would result , not only in advantage to the country , but also in direct pecu- niary gain to the government , under any plan which may be adopted for the ...
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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!