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Page 502
... considered misplaced , and that was an enormous bust of Louis dix - huit , ( or des huîtres , as he is more generally styled by his admiring subjects , ) towering above the heads of Linnæus , Buffon , Fourcroy , & c . men of too great ...
... considered misplaced , and that was an enormous bust of Louis dix - huit , ( or des huîtres , as he is more generally styled by his admiring subjects , ) towering above the heads of Linnæus , Buffon , Fourcroy , & c . men of too great ...
Page 511
... considered how fre- quently Simon Peter visited Cesarea , which is the scene of this interview , and how much it lay in his character to be rash while safe , and cowed by peril , ( Mark xiv . 29 and 30 , ) it may with probability be ...
... considered how fre- quently Simon Peter visited Cesarea , which is the scene of this interview , and how much it lay in his character to be rash while safe , and cowed by peril , ( Mark xiv . 29 and 30 , ) it may with probability be ...
Page 521
... considered as a mechanical part of the profession , has lately arrived at a higher dignity than lawyers of former times were wil- ling to allow it . The absolute and hourly necessity of this law logic is now recog- nized by every one ...
... considered as a mechanical part of the profession , has lately arrived at a higher dignity than lawyers of former times were wil- ling to allow it . The absolute and hourly necessity of this law logic is now recog- nized by every one ...
Page 523
... considered as libellous , by a resolution of the House , a criminal information was filed by the attorney- general against Stockdale , who was the publisher , for a libel . In the course of his defence , Mr. Erskine urged many ...
... considered as libellous , by a resolution of the House , a criminal information was filed by the attorney- general against Stockdale , who was the publisher , for a libel . In the course of his defence , Mr. Erskine urged many ...
Page 525
... considered as the establishment of a glaring des- potism . In the prosecution of the publisher of Paine's Age of Reason , he appeared on the side of the prosecution ; and , although we abhor all such prosecutions , and for this ...
... considered as the establishment of a glaring des- potism . In the prosecution of the publisher of Paine's Age of Reason , he appeared on the side of the prosecution ; and , although we abhor all such prosecutions , and for this ...
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Page 194 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 319 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 561 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 562 - ... is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us ; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy ; meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power — submitting to injuries from none.
Page 562 - ... our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference. If we look to the comparative strength and resources of Spain, and those new governments, and their distance from each other, it must be obvious that she can never subdue them. It is still the true policy of the United States to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope that other powers will pursue...
Page 194 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Page 527 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Page 562 - ... principle satisfactory to themselves, to have interposed, by force, in the internal concerns of Spain. To what extent such interposition may be carried, on the same principle, is a question in which all independent powers whose governments differ from theirs are interested, even those most remote, and surely none more so than the United States.
Page 562 - In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Page 562 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...