North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 12. köideJared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge Wells and Lilly, 1821 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... bodies , and state legislatures . If all these will dismiss narrow prejudices , and think that only to be private good , which promotes general utility , it will be impossible , that we shall not grow up rapidly into an enlight- ened ...
... bodies , and state legislatures . If all these will dismiss narrow prejudices , and think that only to be private good , which promotes general utility , it will be impossible , that we shall not grow up rapidly into an enlight- ened ...
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... body is called to coffee . This is taken in Voltaire's gallery . I have written you from day to day an account of the conversations here . This lasts till noon , an hour more or less , as the company has assembled earlier or later . At ...
... body is called to coffee . This is taken in Voltaire's gallery . I have written you from day to day an account of the conversations here . This lasts till noon , an hour more or less , as the company has assembled earlier or later . At ...
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... body advances in some individuals , by a slow and regular progress , and in others takes greater strides in a short time . The talent of Virgil took a start of this description in the interval between the Culex and the Georgics , and ...
... body advances in some individuals , by a slow and regular progress , and in others takes greater strides in a short time . The talent of Virgil took a start of this description in the interval between the Culex and the Georgics , and ...
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... body will be in want of this ne- cessary but unfortunately not sole condition . To return from this digression to the Henriade , it is some- times said that the subject is not a remarkably fortunate one , but although we agree in this ...
... body will be in want of this ne- cessary but unfortunately not sole condition . To return from this digression to the Henriade , it is some- times said that the subject is not a remarkably fortunate one , but although we agree in this ...
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... body had previously thought it consistent with the dignity of this kind of writing to relax from a steady and sustained gravity , and it was usual to observe almost as much form and ceremony in describing the actions of kings and ...
... body had previously thought it consistent with the dignity of this kind of writing to relax from a steady and sustained gravity , and it was usual to observe almost as much form and ceremony in describing the actions of kings and ...
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Page 314 - And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
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Page 15 - ... hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger.
Page 430 - A cause , therefore, in the fullest definition which it philosophically admits, may be said to be.*, that which immediately precedes any change, and which, existing at any time in similar circumstances, has been always, and will be always, immediately followed by a similar change^.
Page 36 - That we the citizens of Mecklenburg County do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us to the mother country and hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British Crown and abjure all political connection contract or association with that nation who have wantonly trampled on our rights and liberties and inhumanly shed the blood of American patriots at Lexington.
Page 466 - Friend of my youth, with thee began the love Of sacred song ; the wont, in golden dreams, 'Mid classic realms of splendours past to rove, O'er haunted steep, and by immortal streams ; Where the blue wave, with...
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Page 27 - Carolina is a ridge of sand, separated from the main land, in some places by narrow Sounds, in others by broad Bays. The passages or inlets through it are' shallow and dangerous, and Ocracoke inlet is the only one north of Cape Fear, through which vessels pass.
Page 103 - ... because they could discern in them what related to heaven and the church: they therefore placed those images not only in their temples, but also in their houses; not with any intention to worship them, but to serve as means of recollecting the heavenly things signified by them.