The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1806 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... object is a sprite , ev- ery vessel we saw was a Tripolitan pirate , and the sight of breakers was less terrifick than that of a sail . The ship in question sailed better than ourselves , and was gaining fast upon us . Every one of the ...
... object is a sprite , ev- ery vessel we saw was a Tripolitan pirate , and the sight of breakers was less terrifick than that of a sail . The ship in question sailed better than ourselves , and was gaining fast upon us . Every one of the ...
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... object of my surprise . Many curious and interesting facts are buried in ob- livion ; the three great historians of Rome have been transmitted to our hands in a mutilated state , and we are deprived of many pleasing compositions of the ...
... object of my surprise . Many curious and interesting facts are buried in ob- livion ; the three great historians of Rome have been transmitted to our hands in a mutilated state , and we are deprived of many pleasing compositions of the ...
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... object of the medi- cal philosopher is obtained . Now , such an answer is not satisfactory , even to men of understanding , who are not conversant with natural philosophy ; and they will be FOR THE ANTHOLOGY . The following is a ...
... object of the medi- cal philosopher is obtained . Now , such an answer is not satisfactory , even to men of understanding , who are not conversant with natural philosophy ; and they will be FOR THE ANTHOLOGY . The following is a ...
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... object refines the nature of the Vol . III . No. 1 . D love . It strikes an impression of awful reverence ; it is ... objects ; and yet it is all but con- templation . They are seldom visited from above ; but a single vision so ...
... object refines the nature of the Vol . III . No. 1 . D love . It strikes an impression of awful reverence ; it is ... objects ; and yet it is all but con- templation . They are seldom visited from above ; but a single vision so ...
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... object of their institution , the Society has presented to the publick in this vol- ume , the first fruits of their learn- ed labours . The time , that has elapsed since the publication , will not , we hope , render a review of the ...
... object of their institution , the Society has presented to the publick in this vol- ume , the first fruits of their learn- ed labours . The time , that has elapsed since the publication , will not , we hope , render a review of the ...
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Page 448 - ... the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve...
Page 518 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Page 554 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 515 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 515 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in...
Page 189 - 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 447 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 518 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 278 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Page 335 - In the mean time we did not forget our duty, and though we had a better comedy going, in which Johnson was chief actor, we betook ourselves in good time to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our Station...