Commercial Review of the South and West: A Monthly Journal of Trade, Commerce, Commercial Polity, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements and General Literature, Volume 10James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J.D.B. DeBow., 1851 |
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... entire South . In the same spirit we shall publish an answer , if it be furnished to us , from any competent source . Heaven send the South moderation , yet firmness and decision ! -respect for the constituted authorities , yet regard ...
... entire South . In the same spirit we shall publish an answer , if it be furnished to us , from any competent source . Heaven send the South moderation , yet firmness and decision ! -respect for the constituted authorities , yet regard ...
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... entire destruction . These aver that the Consti- tution has already been broken , and our rights trampled upon . Those do not so regard the acts complained of , but on the contrary , assert they can see in them no violation of the ...
... entire destruction . These aver that the Consti- tution has already been broken , and our rights trampled upon . Those do not so regard the acts complained of , but on the contrary , assert they can see in them no violation of the ...
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... Entire unanimity of belief , where room has been left for inquiry , ar- gues , and in general may be said to establish , the truth of that belief . For no institution ever yet generally existed among mankind , that did not have some ...
... Entire unanimity of belief , where room has been left for inquiry , ar- gues , and in general may be said to establish , the truth of that belief . For no institution ever yet generally existed among mankind , that did not have some ...
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... entire carelessness of the position showed , that by them certainly no suspicion was entertained of my desire to be at large , an opinion not to be wondered at , since they may have seen me daily passing into the houses of their ...
... entire carelessness of the position showed , that by them certainly no suspicion was entertained of my desire to be at large , an opinion not to be wondered at , since they may have seen me daily passing into the houses of their ...
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... entire volume of water in the river , if kept united , and its velocity undiminished , would so far exceed that re- sistance , as not only to sweep away the bar , but to render its refor- mation impossible . The expanse at the mouth is ...
... entire volume of water in the river , if kept united , and its velocity undiminished , would so far exceed that re- sistance , as not only to sweep away the bar , but to render its refor- mation impossible . The expanse at the mouth is ...
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Page 114 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Page 431 - Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
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Page 301 - A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: "The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.
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