United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 8Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1840 - United States |
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... soon began to develope themselves : " Hamilton deserves to be ranked among those men , who have best understood the vital principles and essential conditions of government ; not merely of a nominal government , but of a government ...
... soon began to develope themselves : " Hamilton deserves to be ranked among those men , who have best understood the vital principles and essential conditions of government ; not merely of a nominal government , but of a government ...
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... soon to leave for ever the beautiful homes of their fathers - the hunting grounds of their tribe in those days long gone by , when the white - skins in their winged canoes had not yet crossed the Great Salt Lake to put out their council ...
... soon to leave for ever the beautiful homes of their fathers - the hunting grounds of their tribe in those days long gone by , when the white - skins in their winged canoes had not yet crossed the Great Salt Lake to put out their council ...
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... soon be established , forming the crowning stone of the glo- rious edifice erected by human genius in the long progress of society . The earliest civilization of which we have any knowledge , begins with the beginning of history , for ...
... soon be established , forming the crowning stone of the glo- rious edifice erected by human genius in the long progress of society . The earliest civilization of which we have any knowledge , begins with the beginning of history , for ...
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... Soon afterward , the hardy tribes of Italy , stimu- lated probably by the Greek colonies in Sicily and Magna Græcia , commenced that progress which was destined to lead to such astound- ing results . Its states were impressed with the ...
... Soon afterward , the hardy tribes of Italy , stimu- lated probably by the Greek colonies in Sicily and Magna Græcia , commenced that progress which was destined to lead to such astound- ing results . Its states were impressed with the ...
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... soon arose from among the mass of the people . The voice of the bard was heard in princely hall and peasant's hut , singing the exploits of hero- ism , the charms of beauty , and the praise of virtue . Admiring crowds gathered around ...
... soon arose from among the mass of the people . The voice of the bard was heard in princely hall and peasant's hut , singing the exploits of hero- ism , the charms of beauty , and the praise of virtue . Admiring crowds gathered around ...
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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!