The Southern literary messenger, Volumes 24-251857 |
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... means of getting supplies and all other such aid as the fortunes of war may demand , whilst the check - mating power of a hostile fleet is never so strong as when its vigilance controls the outlets along a blockaded coast . The want of ...
... means of getting supplies and all other such aid as the fortunes of war may demand , whilst the check - mating power of a hostile fleet is never so strong as when its vigilance controls the outlets along a blockaded coast . The want of ...
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... means of living , each vessel on a cruise was fur- nished with a seine , " thirty five fathoms long , with all the cordage necessary for its use . " The committee doubtless had in view too , the wants of those ashore , in making this ...
... means of living , each vessel on a cruise was fur- nished with a seine , " thirty five fathoms long , with all the cordage necessary for its use . " The committee doubtless had in view too , the wants of those ashore , in making this ...
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... means to hurt you . Just be passive , " whispered a voice which he thought that he recognized as Burnot's , though ... mean no harm to you - but whose necessities require your submission to them for a brief space . You know our secret ...
... means to hurt you . Just be passive , " whispered a voice which he thought that he recognized as Burnot's , though ... mean no harm to you - but whose necessities require your submission to them for a brief space . You know our secret ...
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... means of an enviable character . From the bright prospects which had dawned upon him and so much elated him , he had been suddenly cast down and overwhelmed with loss . Just as he reached the gate some one advanced from the shadow and ...
... means of an enviable character . From the bright prospects which had dawned upon him and so much elated him , he had been suddenly cast down and overwhelmed with loss . Just as he reached the gate some one advanced from the shadow and ...
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... means to lend to these victims such sums as were neces- sary for their liquidation , upon good security being given him , taking care that his loans should be free from all taint of usury . He chiefly confined his attentions of this ...
... means to lend to these victims such sums as were neces- sary for their liquidation , upon good security being given him , taking care that his loans should be free from all taint of usury . He chiefly confined his attentions of this ...
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Page 88 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume.
Page 213 - WE knew it would rain, for all the morn. A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
Page 475 - I deemed that if they were put under a sort of cover I might gain my end ; and happening to have a mask in the house, I told them all to stand and speak boldly from under cover of the mask. " I began with the youngest (Anne, afterwards Acton Bell), and asked what a child like her most wanted ; she answered, 'Age and experience.
Page 91 - But the power of Congress over the person or property of a citizen can never be a mere discretionary power under our Constitution and form of Government. The powers of the Government and the rights and privileges of the citizen are regulated and plainly defined by the Constitution itself.
Page 343 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 90 - And if the Constitution recognizes the right of property of the master in a slave, and makes no distinction between that description of property and other property owned by a citizen, no tribunal, acting under the authority of the United States, whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, has a right to draw such a distinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which have been provided for the protection of private property against the encroachments of the government.
Page 479 - HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, , Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 475 - A circumstance now occurs to my mind which I may as well mention. When my children were very young, when, as far as I can remember, the oldest was about ten years of age, and the youngest about four, thinking that they knew more than I had yet discovered, in order to make them speak with less timidity, I deemed that if they were put...
Page 420 - The light clear element which the isle wears Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers, Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers. And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep ; And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain.
Page 174 - On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break, As down he bears before the gale.