The American Whig Review, Volumes 13-14G. H. Colton, 1851 |
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... government - that is to say , a used to stifle this antagonism is doubtless government by the discretion , common the abuse of significant names . Every for- sense , and brotherly feeling of the people . eigner who lands upon the shores ...
... government - that is to say , a used to stifle this antagonism is doubtless government by the discretion , common the abuse of significant names . Every for- sense , and brotherly feeling of the people . eigner who lands upon the shores ...
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... government ought not to abolish slavery , in a State or territory . That the abolition of slavery will place the Southern States , the West Indies , and the cotton lands acquired , or in process of acquisition by Great Britain on the ...
... government ought not to abolish slavery , in a State or territory . That the abolition of slavery will place the Southern States , the West Indies , and the cotton lands acquired , or in process of acquisition by Great Britain on the ...
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... government was European nations a fixed and annual tribute secured for this object ; and during the pre- was paid by the Government for the protec- vious year , John Adams , Benjamin Frank- tion of its citizens . France then paid an lin ...
... government was European nations a fixed and annual tribute secured for this object ; and during the pre- was paid by the Government for the protec- vious year , John Adams , Benjamin Frank- tion of its citizens . France then paid an lin ...
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... government paid . During the Revolution we had no commerce in that quarter , and of course there was no oppor- tunity for aggression . No sooner was peace restored than our commerce revived , and our ships , bearing the new flag of ...
... government paid . During the Revolution we had no commerce in that quarter , and of course there was no oppor- tunity for aggression . No sooner was peace restored than our commerce revived , and our ships , bearing the new flag of ...
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... Government for the protec- tion of its citizens . France then paid an annual tribute of one hundred thousand dollars , and Great Britain , the boasted mis- tress of the seas , paid three hundred thou- sand dollars , besides a large ...
... Government for the protec- tion of its citizens . France then paid an annual tribute of one hundred thousand dollars , and Great Britain , the boasted mis- tress of the seas , paid three hundred thou- sand dollars , besides a large ...
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Page 415 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Page 382 - Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Page 354 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 331 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck.
Page 416 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 354 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Page 383 - Which first assured the forced power ; So when they did design The Capitol's first line, A bleeding head, where they begun, Did fright the architects to run ; And yet in that the state Foresaw its happy fate. And now the Irish are ashamed To see themselves in one year tamed ; So much one man can do, That does best act and know.
Page 333 - The Slave's Dream Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land.
Page 416 - Souls of lonely places ! can I think A vulgar hope was yours when ye employed Such ministry, when ye through many a year Haunting me thus among my boyish sports, On caves and trees, upon the woods and hills, Impressed upon all forms the characters Of danger or desire; and thus did make The surface of the universal earth With triumph and delight, with hope and fear, Work like a sea?
Page 417 - I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still ; O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart ; O'er all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, Or beats the gladsome air ; o'er all that glides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters.