The American Whig Review, 2. köideWiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... course . It being then a question in the rule of three , you have the advantage in proportion as it is better to swear a little false for the sake of justice , than to commit much per- jury in support of what is wrong . On this state of ...
... course . It being then a question in the rule of three , you have the advantage in proportion as it is better to swear a little false for the sake of justice , than to commit much per- jury in support of what is wrong . On this state of ...
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... course of his column by the black swath of dead men that stretches like a huge serpent over the plain . Out of the six- teen thousand men with which he started but fifteen hundred are left beside him . Ten out of every eleven have ...
... course of his column by the black swath of dead men that stretches like a huge serpent over the plain . Out of the six- teen thousand men with which he started but fifteen hundred are left beside him . Ten out of every eleven have ...
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... course by a cord attached to the second . They descended with rapidity , for the current of the river , always powerful so near the cataract , was now swelled by the rains to unusual strength . We watched their progress till they came ...
... course by a cord attached to the second . They descended with rapidity , for the current of the river , always powerful so near the cataract , was now swelled by the rains to unusual strength . We watched their progress till they came ...
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... course of a ve- hement and protracted controversy on the subject , between one of our most eminent lawyers and former Chief Magistrates of this City , the late Cadwallader D. Colden and Dr. Duer , then a member of the State Legislature ...
... course of a ve- hement and protracted controversy on the subject , between one of our most eminent lawyers and former Chief Magistrates of this City , the late Cadwallader D. Colden and Dr. Duer , then a member of the State Legislature ...
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... course of Nature , in such a manner as a being organized like man , following the impulse of nature , would congregate with his fellow creatures , upon a planet constituted like this earth . His first , most urgent and constantly ...
... course of Nature , in such a manner as a being organized like man , following the impulse of nature , would congregate with his fellow creatures , upon a planet constituted like this earth . His first , most urgent and constantly ...
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Page 36 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 36 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 323 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 36 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 35 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 200 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 171 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Page 35 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 323 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 378 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.