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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... spirit of fraternal affection and universal philanthropy . Our literature , as our politics , is equally subjected to this , the most dangerous species of foreign influence , and it is not too much to say that at this moment , or at ...
... spirit of fraternal affection and universal philanthropy . Our literature , as our politics , is equally subjected to this , the most dangerous species of foreign influence , and it is not too much to say that at this moment , or at ...
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... spirit in a golden rain , Glancing and glittering like the falling stars . Of a September midnight , rose a hope Out of commencing knowledge ; the desire For one of those undying names which glow In beacon - glory through all life and ...
... spirit in a golden rain , Glancing and glittering like the falling stars . Of a September midnight , rose a hope Out of commencing knowledge ; the desire For one of those undying names which glow In beacon - glory through all life and ...
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... spirit , by want and privation , that they had neither hands nor hearts for resistance . All this is doubtless true . Yet we read , that when the Swiss peasantry rose against Austrian tyranny , and the veterans of their oppressor ...
... spirit , by want and privation , that they had neither hands nor hearts for resistance . All this is doubtless true . Yet we read , that when the Swiss peasantry rose against Austrian tyranny , and the veterans of their oppressor ...
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... spirit that prevailed in its ranks , left the Netherlands pursued alike by the execrations of the plundered inhabitants and the shouts of the triumphant French ; and it was by observing the lamentable effects of such irregu larity that ...
... spirit that prevailed in its ranks , left the Netherlands pursued alike by the execrations of the plundered inhabitants and the shouts of the triumphant French ; and it was by observing the lamentable effects of such irregu larity that ...
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... spirit , resolved on hosti- lities ; and his brother , with still greater , achieved his design . Setting out at the head of about 4800 European and 2000 native troops , General Wellesley came up with the enemy in the neighborhood of ...
... spirit , resolved on hosti- lities ; and his brother , with still greater , achieved his design . Setting out at the head of about 4800 European and 2000 native troops , General Wellesley came up with the enemy in the neighborhood of ...
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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!!