The United States Democratic Review, Volume 4; Volume 35Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1855 Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... appear probable that he wishes to extend his dominion over the vast congregation of bigoted Mussulmans , who could never be brought into either civil or religious harmony with the great mass of his subjects . Hitherto , the conquests of ...
... appear probable that he wishes to extend his dominion over the vast congregation of bigoted Mussulmans , who could never be brought into either civil or religious harmony with the great mass of his subjects . Hitherto , the conquests of ...
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... appear flocks of blue , black , and iris - plumed cranes - long - legged , long- bellied , and leaner than the lean kine of Pharaoh - of Pharaoh the slaughterer of two - year - old boys . Ducks abound , and pigeons in clouds - paroquets ...
... appear flocks of blue , black , and iris - plumed cranes - long - legged , long- bellied , and leaner than the lean kine of Pharaoh - of Pharaoh the slaughterer of two - year - old boys . Ducks abound , and pigeons in clouds - paroquets ...
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... appear in an equal degree , if we institute a compa- rison between almost any two authors of the respective nations , who have cultivated the same departments of literature - be- tween Homer and Virgil in the stately epic , Demosthenes ...
... appear in an equal degree , if we institute a compa- rison between almost any two authors of the respective nations , who have cultivated the same departments of literature - be- tween Homer and Virgil in the stately epic , Demosthenes ...
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... Each blade of grass , each shrub appears To bow its tender head in tears ; But as the day - star rises high , Full quickly does the illusion fly ; For what seemed once a tear , seems now A 1855. ] 93 The Falls of St. Anthony .
... Each blade of grass , each shrub appears To bow its tender head in tears ; But as the day - star rises high , Full quickly does the illusion fly ; For what seemed once a tear , seems now A 1855. ] 93 The Falls of St. Anthony .
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... appear enlarged ; so heroic men are exaggerated to the stature of gods , when seen through the misty atmosphere of an ignorant and superstitious age . Christianity and civilization have cleared up in a measure these mental obscurities ...
... appear enlarged ; so heroic men are exaggerated to the stature of gods , when seen through the misty atmosphere of an ignorant and superstitious age . Christianity and civilization have cleared up in a measure these mental obscurities ...
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Page 326 - When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 374 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 325 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered, — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo *em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro* *em.
Page 324 - ... look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, to see his destruction and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself ; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not...
Page 384 - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
Page 380 - In its dimensions, its architecture, its arrangements, and ornaments, it is such a one as became the character and fortune of the man. It stands upon an elliptic plain, formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and, on the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a hundred and fifty miles, and brings under the eye one of the boldest and most beautiful horizons in the world : while, on the east, it presents an extent of prospect, bounded only...
Page 381 - ... with objects of science and taste, so classed and arranged as to produce their finest effect. On one side, specimens of sculpture set out, in such order, as to exhibit at a coup...
Page 401 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Page 373 - ... and heard it in conversation. He had all the attributes of the mind, and the heart, and the soul, which are essential to eloquence of the highest order. The only defect was a physical one : he wanted volume and compass of voice, for a large deliberative assembly-, and his voice, from the excess of his sensibility, instead of rising with his feelings and conceptions, sunk under their pressure, and became guttural and inarticulate. The consciousness of this infirmity, repressed any attempt in a...
Page 272 - It was the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky and clouds of flame; mountains of red rolling flames, like immense waves of the sea, alternately bursting forth and elevating themselves to skies of fire, and then sinking into the ocean of flame below. Oh, it was the most grand, the most sublime, and the most terrific sight the world ever beheld!!