The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 23. köideLangtree and O'Sullivan, 1848 |
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... equal regret with both free states or slave states . whites of the former are not dependent upon the blacks for service , and they have shown a determination that the blacks shall not be dependent upon them for bread . In the south the ...
... equal regret with both free states or slave states . whites of the former are not dependent upon the blacks for service , and they have shown a determination that the blacks shall not be dependent upon them for bread . In the south the ...
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... equal number of new states to be ad- mitted to our confederacy - a territory in a great part of which slavery has never existed , in fact , and from the residue of which it has been expressly abolished by the existing government . We ...
... equal number of new states to be ad- mitted to our confederacy - a territory in a great part of which slavery has never existed , in fact , and from the residue of which it has been expressly abolished by the existing government . We ...
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... equal to her good fortune . For fifteen nights , at the Palais Bourbon , she made Madame de Flassans sleep in her chamber , and the Abbé Briant in the library adjoining , as though she feared the solitude , and the images of terror ...
... equal to her good fortune . For fifteen nights , at the Palais Bourbon , she made Madame de Flassans sleep in her chamber , and the Abbé Briant in the library adjoining , as though she feared the solitude , and the images of terror ...
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... equal rights , and to have possessed their own municipal regulations ; but this in time was found to be somewhat in- convenient to the ambitious part of the community . The constitution was therefore remodelled under Servius Tullius ...
... equal rights , and to have possessed their own municipal regulations ; but this in time was found to be somewhat in- convenient to the ambitious part of the community . The constitution was therefore remodelled under Servius Tullius ...
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... equal to the interest of the national debt of England , and leaving probably not more than twenty - three or twenty - four per cent . of the whole production for the maintenance of the proprietor and cultivator ; if also we take into ...
... equal to the interest of the national debt of England , and leaving probably not more than twenty - three or twenty - four per cent . of the whole production for the maintenance of the proprietor and cultivator ; if also we take into ...
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Page 10 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Page 107 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western...
Page 7 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Page 7 - I think it might be. But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other.
Page 10 - Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 148 - So has it been from the beginning, so will it be to the end. Generation after generation takes to itself the Form of a Body; and forth issuing from Cimmerian Night, on Heaven's mission APPEARS.
Page 147 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Page 337 - was exceedingly disposed to please the king and to do him service." "It could never be hoped," he observes elsewhere, " that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them.
Page 10 - Appeals, too, are constantly made to sectional interests in order to influence the election of the Chief Magistrate, as if it were desired that he should favor a particular quarter of the country instead of fulfilling the duties of his station with impartial justice to all; and the possible dissolution of the Union has at length become an ordinary and familiar subject of discussion.
Page 42 - ... the legal check which it puts into the hands of the judiciary. This is a body which, if rendered independent and kept strictly to their own department, merits great confidence for their learning and integrity. In fact, what degree of confidence would be too much for a body composed of such men as Wythe, Blair and Pendleton? On characters like these, the civium ardor prava jubentium would make no impression.