American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - Serial publications |
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... necessary for their support , He traces the augmentation of agricultural industry to various causes . In the first place , vast tracts of land have for many years been used as wastes , commons , and common fields , the former of which ...
... necessary for their support , He traces the augmentation of agricultural industry to various causes . In the first place , vast tracts of land have for many years been used as wastes , commons , and common fields , the former of which ...
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... necessary for its cultivation . Their time was occupied in laying the foundations of a new social system , and in repelling the attacks of the savages . The most approved modes of practice had not then been completely de- veloped , and ...
... necessary for its cultivation . Their time was occupied in laying the foundations of a new social system , and in repelling the attacks of the savages . The most approved modes of practice had not then been completely de- veloped , and ...
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... necessary to good husbandry , that a careful examination should be made into the chemical combination of the different plants , and this is the only mode in which crops can be properly alternated . A merely theoretic agriculturist ...
... necessary to good husbandry , that a careful examination should be made into the chemical combination of the different plants , and this is the only mode in which crops can be properly alternated . A merely theoretic agriculturist ...
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... necessary poverty . In New England none that is not the result of vice or disease . If the moral and physical laws of the Creator were obeyed , the first of these causes would be at an end , and the second would scarcely exist ...
... necessary poverty . In New England none that is not the result of vice or disease . If the moral and physical laws of the Creator were obeyed , the first of these causes would be at an end , and the second would scarcely exist ...
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... necessary for me to get my statement endorsed . Come , it is not five minutes ' walk for you . ' 666 ' Why , bless you , man , don't you see I'm going out - there's my wife coming down stairs now . ' " Let her go in the carriage - you ...
... necessary for me to get my statement endorsed . Come , it is not five minutes ' walk for you . ' 666 ' Why , bless you , man , don't you see I'm going out - there's my wife coming down stairs now . ' " Let her go in the carriage - you ...
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Page 399 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 5 - Through the high wood echoing shrill; Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Page 300 - To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Page 399 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke — That bright dream was his last; He woke to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms! they come! the Greek ! the Greek...
Page 52 - Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
Page 497 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...
Page 399 - They fought, like brave men, long and well ; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered— but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 144 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury : that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 496 - The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made...
Page 401 - Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined, — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.