The United States Democratic Review, 17. köideJ.& H.G. Langley, 1846 Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... fact , but of right . No obligation of duty towards Mexico tended in the least de- gree to restrain our right to effect the desired recovery of the fair province once our own - whatever motives of policy might have prompted a more de ...
... fact , but of right . No obligation of duty towards Mexico tended in the least de- gree to restrain our right to effect the desired recovery of the fair province once our own - whatever motives of policy might have prompted a more de ...
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... fact , that Mexico would have declared war against us , and would have waged it seriously , if she had not been prevent- ed by that very weakness which should have constituted her best defence . We plead guilty to a degree of sen ...
... fact , that Mexico would have declared war against us , and would have waged it seriously , if she had not been prevent- ed by that very weakness which should have constituted her best defence . We plead guilty to a degree of sen ...
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... fact and in feeling , as well of bank in- flunces as of corrupting pecuniary in- fluences of any description . The vital importance of such an establishment to the success of our cause is incapable of exaggeration . Experience will show ...
... fact and in feeling , as well of bank in- flunces as of corrupting pecuniary in- fluences of any description . The vital importance of such an establishment to the success of our cause is incapable of exaggeration . Experience will show ...
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... fact that the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary to Spain is known to have been tendered to him , and declined from un- willingness to abandon the long - coveted enjoyments of his present country life , is ...
... fact that the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary to Spain is known to have been tendered to him , and declined from un- willingness to abandon the long - coveted enjoyments of his present country life , is ...
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... fact , too miserable , he says , to master sent him away before his term think of anything more agreeable than had expired , to save the reputation of the shooting of himself through the his academy . Yet the lad , with all his head ...
... fact , too miserable , he says , to master sent him away before his term think of anything more agreeable than had expired , to save the reputation of the shooting of himself through the his academy . Yet the lad , with all his head ...
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Page 5 - ... our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
Page 220 - Labor is worship !" — the robin is singing; " Labor is worship !" — the wild bee is ringing : Listen ! that eloquent whisper upspringing Speaks to thy soul from out Nature's great heart. From the dark cloud flows the life-giving shower ; From the rough sod blows the soft-breathing flower ; From the small insect, the rich coral bower; Only man, in the plan, shrinks from his part.
Page 443 - I am loth to quote, yet inasmuch as the laws of all nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the civil law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the Roman Empire, it must be owned that the principles of our law are borrowed from the civil law and therefore grounded upon the same reason in many things.
Page 220 - Labor is rest — from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill.
Page 35 - He had lived in vain. He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it.
Page 126 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Page 67 - As they who shunned the household maid Beheld the crown upon her, So all shall see your toil repaid With hearth and home and honor. Then let the toast be freely quaffed, In water cool and brimming, — " All honor to the good old Craft, Its merry men and women ! " fall out again your long array, In the old time's pleasant manner : Once more, on gay St.
Page 417 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Page 402 - To be governed at all, they must be governed with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would long since have been lost to Great Britain if civil skill and military prowess had not united their efforts to support an authority which Heaven never gave, by means which it never can sanction.
Page 250 - The whole history of the Christian Religion shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her, treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her; they cry Hail!