Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 3T.W. White, 1837 |
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... necessary for persons about to commence the perilous navigation of Parisian streets , to take the same precaution , were it not a fact that few if any accidents occur . I have really been astonished , not only at the dexterity of the ...
... necessary for persons about to commence the perilous navigation of Parisian streets , to take the same precaution , were it not a fact that few if any accidents occur . I have really been astonished , not only at the dexterity of the ...
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... necessary to spend a cer- makes the difference . It may be objected , that differ - tain time in the office of a practising attorney , the ing circumstances affect the result ; but superiority to circumstances is exactly what marks and ...
... necessary to spend a cer- makes the difference . It may be objected , that differ - tain time in the office of a practising attorney , the ing circumstances affect the result ; but superiority to circumstances is exactly what marks and ...
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... necessary for those of other liberal professions . Students of medi- cine must spend all their time in the pursuit of that science ; they must follow a collegiate course exclu- sively relating to their profession , undisturbed by other ...
... necessary for those of other liberal professions . Students of medi- cine must spend all their time in the pursuit of that science ; they must follow a collegiate course exclu- sively relating to their profession , undisturbed by other ...
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... necessary . They are too essential to be overlooked by any . second and third parts of his Reports . " Now for the degrees of the law , " says he , " as there be in the universities of Cambridge and Oxford divers degrees , as general ...
... necessary . They are too essential to be overlooked by any . second and third parts of his Reports . " Now for the degrees of the law , " says he , " as there be in the universities of Cambridge and Oxford divers degrees , as general ...
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... necessary to retain them under pure monarchy . | Europe that the English are not invincible at sea . And Their pressure upon us has been so severe and so unprin- cipled that we cannot deprecate their fate , though we might wish to see ...
... necessary to retain them under pure monarchy . | Europe that the English are not invincible at sea . And Their pressure upon us has been so severe and so unprin- cipled that we cannot deprecate their fate , though we might wish to see ...
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Page 346 - God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments ; we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments : neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Page 48 - God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth ! Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest, Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest, Summoning from the...
Page 346 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 47 - Death should come Gently to one of gentle mould like thee, As light winds wandering through groves of bloom Detach the delicate blossom from the tree.
Page 43 - Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth In her fair page; see, every season brings New change, to her, of everlasting youth; Still the green soil, with joyous living things, Swarms, the wide air is full of joyous wings, And myriads, still, are happy in the sleep Of ocean's azure gulfs, and where he flings The restless surge. Eternal Love doth keep In his complacent arms, the earth, the air, the deep.
Page 348 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 345 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Page 47 - ... the long, long summer hours The golden light should lie, And thick, young herbs and groups of flowers Stand in their beauty by. The oriole should build and tell His love-tale, close beside my cell ; The idle butterfly Should rest him there, and there be heard The housewife bee and humming-bird.
Page 48 - God! when Thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunder-bolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages; when, at Thy call, Uprises the great deep and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities; who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of Thy power, His...
Page 348 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...