American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - Serial publications |
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... true American⚫ system , would equally benefit every section of the country ; the commerce and manufactures of the east , the rice , cotton , sugar , tobacco , and gold , of the south , and the agricultural products of the west . But ...
... true American⚫ system , would equally benefit every section of the country ; the commerce and manufactures of the east , the rice , cotton , sugar , tobacco , and gold , of the south , and the agricultural products of the west . But ...
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... true benevolence or charity as cruelty itself ; they feed a spirit of false honour destructive of the repose of society . They are suited , generally , to the atmosphere of the so - called higher classes , and upon them they work no ...
... true benevolence or charity as cruelty itself ; they feed a spirit of false honour destructive of the repose of society . They are suited , generally , to the atmosphere of the so - called higher classes , and upon them they work no ...
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... true principles by which the goods of this life are to be estimated , and our conduct regulated , is the aim of Miss Sedgwick in this little work , and she has most fully succeeded to the permanent increase of her own reputation , and ...
... true principles by which the goods of this life are to be estimated , and our conduct regulated , is the aim of Miss Sedgwick in this little work , and she has most fully succeeded to the permanent increase of her own reputation , and ...
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... true happiness of his humble home . Miss Sabina Jane Finley , now a young lady of twelve years , after surveying Aikin from top to toe , said to her mother , in a suppressed but audible voice , Gentleman ! ' Mrs. Finley seemed to have ...
... true happiness of his humble home . Miss Sabina Jane Finley , now a young lady of twelve years , after surveying Aikin from top to toe , said to her mother , in a suppressed but audible voice , Gentleman ! ' Mrs. Finley seemed to have ...
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... true , a part of the sin must lie at our doors , who afford them no helps . But there is no time to discuss this : Paulina , I fear , will not be able to prove her sincerity . She has , it seems to me , but little while to live ; if I ...
... true , a part of the sin must lie at our doors , who afford them no helps . But there is no time to discuss this : Paulina , I fear , will not be able to prove her sincerity . She has , it seems to me , but little while to live ; if I ...
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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.