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At present , the terrific interest inspired by these is in some degree weakened by
being divided among a number of agents . The work before us has been written
with no small degree of It is a work which will bear more than one reading , and is
...
At present , the terrific interest inspired by these is in some degree weakened by
being divided among a number of agents . The work before us has been written
with no small degree of It is a work which will bear more than one reading , and is
...
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extravagances , weaknesses , and inconsistencies , and imperfect or languid
passages will be produced in moments of hurry and lassitude . These our author
has resolutely blotted out , and has come before the public with a present worthy
of ...
extravagances , weaknesses , and inconsistencies , and imperfect or languid
passages will be produced in moments of hurry and lassitude . These our author
has resolutely blotted out , and has come before the public with a present worthy
of ...
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... where the soldier is almost always a native ; where the Chief Magistracy ,
being reversionary , presents to the army no ... powers be not present at the
experiment , the result will be different from that which is expected or has been
foretold .
... where the soldier is almost always a native ; where the Chief Magistracy ,
being reversionary , presents to the army no ... powers be not present at the
experiment , the result will be different from that which is expected or has been
foretold .
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have as certain an agency in the production of a result , as those more
immediately present and obvious , * and because there is no common unerring
standard , to which these conclusions may be brought for a test , like
experimental proof in ...
have as certain an agency in the production of a result , as those more
immediately present and obvious , * and because there is no common unerring
standard , to which these conclusions may be brought for a test , like
experimental proof in ...
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Before the invention of the press , every question of power was brought to the
standard of brute force : in the present age , every question of this sort is brought
to the standard of public opinion . Throughout the former division of time , every ...
Before the invention of the press , every question of power was brought to the
standard of brute force : in the present age , every question of this sort is brought
to the standard of public opinion . Throughout the former division of time , every ...
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Seite 71 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Seite 479 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Seite 480 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook...
Seite 70 - Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's...
Seite 71 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Seite 213 - We wish, that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event, to every class and every age. We wish, that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Seite 71 - Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine : And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony are thine.
Seite 120 - ... mighty whale, shall die. And realms shall be dissolved, and empires be no more, And they shall bow to death, who ruled from shore to shore ; And the great globe itself, so the holy writings tell, With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell, Shall melt with fervent heat — they shall all pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.
Seite 479 - Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Seite 328 - MAGEE.— ON ATONEMENT AND SACRIFICE : Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice, and on the Principal Arguments! advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning employed, by the Opponents of those Doctrines, as held by the Established Church.