The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 23. köideLangtree and O'Sullivan, 1848 |
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... remarkable island , we propose to glance at its resour- ces and condition . Few portions of Europe have retained so many traces of their past his- tory . Nothing is more striking to the visitor than the diversities between Italy and ...
... remarkable island , we propose to glance at its resour- ces and condition . Few portions of Europe have retained so many traces of their past his- tory . Nothing is more striking to the visitor than the diversities between Italy and ...
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... remarkable anec- dotes connected with the persecutions of the Neapolitan kings , and the spirited resistance of the islanders , will furnish themes of no ordinary interest . How far the ancient chroniclers may be relied on for ...
... remarkable anec- dotes connected with the persecutions of the Neapolitan kings , and the spirited resistance of the islanders , will furnish themes of no ordinary interest . How far the ancient chroniclers may be relied on for ...
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... remarkable at- mospheric vicissitudes and electric phenomena . The climate of Sicily is as rich in variety as its soil in products and its inhabitants in character . There are days of early spring positively overwhelming by their ...
... remarkable at- mospheric vicissitudes and electric phenomena . The climate of Sicily is as rich in variety as its soil in products and its inhabitants in character . There are days of early spring positively overwhelming by their ...
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... remarkable incidents of that time , and one that I could never read without emotion , and one that my heart was never tempted to doubt , was the account of the death of Francesco Franconia , the founder of the school of Bologna and ...
... remarkable incidents of that time , and one that I could never read without emotion , and one that my heart was never tempted to doubt , was the account of the death of Francesco Franconia , the founder of the school of Bologna and ...
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... remarkable characteristic of his performance is , that his style is as remarkable for pathos as energy ; he makes his huge instrument sing in the most touching manner , and with a large , firm , well - sustained cantabile . It is remarkable ...
... remarkable characteristic of his performance is , that his style is as remarkable for pathos as energy ; he makes his huge instrument sing in the most touching manner , and with a large , firm , well - sustained cantabile . It is remarkable ...
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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.