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... matter also of the tract under notice : " The taste which he ( Dr. Channing , ) displays , is far from being correct ; his diction is exceedingly affected ; and the affectation is that of extreme vigor and refinement of thought , often ...
... matter also of the tract under notice : " The taste which he ( Dr. Channing , ) displays , is far from being correct ; his diction is exceedingly affected ; and the affectation is that of extreme vigor and refinement of thought , often ...
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... matter is always , or almost always , inferior to the stilted diction ; the author is ever laboring to look big ; he is making a vast noise , and you cannot tell why ; he is writing about it , and about it , without coming to the point ...
... matter is always , or almost always , inferior to the stilted diction ; the author is ever laboring to look big ; he is making a vast noise , and you cannot tell why ; he is writing about it , and about it , without coming to the point ...
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... matter of no we see a race characterized by that same love of small difficulty to perform the simplest operations freedom , which we admire so much in our own of numbers . Our merchants seldom think , that aboriginal natives - that cold ...
... matter of no we see a race characterized by that same love of small difficulty to perform the simplest operations freedom , which we admire so much in our own of numbers . Our merchants seldom think , that aboriginal natives - that cold ...
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... matter - that will quietly awaken public opinion , and shake off the nightmare that rides upon it . bowels of the earth , as geologists say , abundant evidence of a continuous development of the tribes of organized life ; —that those ...
... matter - that will quietly awaken public opinion , and shake off the nightmare that rides upon it . bowels of the earth , as geologists say , abundant evidence of a continuous development of the tribes of organized life ; —that those ...
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... matter , and that the intentions of the father might a book entitled Meat out of the Eater , to my son be carried out in good faith , it was stipulated that William ; and to my son John , I bequeath a book the price should be ten ...
... matter , and that the intentions of the father might a book entitled Meat out of the Eater , to my son be carried out in good faith , it was stipulated that William ; and to my son John , I bequeath a book the price should be ten ...
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Page 85 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 219 - Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 5 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...
Page 237 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 109 - 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.
Page 103 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 108 - Last night, the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see!" The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Page 286 - Till the Ledaean stars so famed for love Wondered at us from above. We spent them not in toys, in lusts or wine; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Page 87 - State or Territory, that the person so seized or arrested doth, under the laws of the State or Territory from which he or she fled, owe service or labor to the person claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate to give a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labor to the State or Territory from which he or she fled.
Page 108 - IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.