Southern Literary Messenger, 22. köideJno. R. Thompson, 1856 |
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... True Theory of Candidate in a Quandary , A 286 Greeks the Modern Common Experience , A , From the Poems of the Late Henry Ellen . 104 Grigsby , H. B. Esq . , Discourse on the Virginia Convention of 1776 Country in 1950 , The , or the ...
... True Theory of Candidate in a Quandary , A 286 Greeks the Modern Common Experience , A , From the Poems of the Late Henry Ellen . 104 Grigsby , H. B. Esq . , Discourse on the Virginia Convention of 1776 Country in 1950 , The , or the ...
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... true ground upon which to rest our pe- culiar institution . The Colonization Society a true exponent of public senti- ment , and a response to repeated de- mands of the General Assembly . Colo- nization and Abolition antagonistic ...
... true ground upon which to rest our pe- culiar institution . The Colonization Society a true exponent of public senti- ment , and a response to repeated de- mands of the General Assembly . Colo- nization and Abolition antagonistic ...
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... true policy of the States at home , I would prohibit by law the future emigration of the free colored population from our State to the free States . Dr. Drake was right in his views of our laws driving away the free negroes to the free ...
... true policy of the States at home , I would prohibit by law the future emigration of the free colored population from our State to the free States . Dr. Drake was right in his views of our laws driving away the free negroes to the free ...
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... true law in morals and religion , yet killing may become an imperative duty in certain circumstances . " And yet these men seize hold of the abstraction that all men are free and equal , and run it like a ploughshare through society ...
... true law in morals and religion , yet killing may become an imperative duty in certain circumstances . " And yet these men seize hold of the abstraction that all men are free and equal , and run it like a ploughshare through society ...
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... True , he was rather grave for so young a man , and smiled but seldom ; but when he did smile , it was like the breaking forth of a sun - beam - imparting light and gladness . But grave or otherwise , he was all that she wished him to ...
... True , he was rather grave for so young a man , and smiled but seldom ; but when he did smile , it was like the breaking forth of a sun - beam - imparting light and gladness . But grave or otherwise , he was all that she wished him to ...
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Page 1 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 185 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 344 - FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten...
Page 185 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 7 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 293 - At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful painted window, which was made by an apprentice out of the pieces of glass which had been rejected by his master. It is so far superior to every other in the church, that, according to the tradition, the vanquished artist killed himself from mortification.
Page 98 - Madonna-wise on either side her head; Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.
Page 475 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more ! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st...
Page 132 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more ; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 209 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...