The Southern literary messenger, Volume 151849 |
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... present here a few glimpses It is sad that this bright page in the history of at Europe in 1848 , we have been led to choose so noble a race , should have been stained with a the distant and unknown Slave nation as the first deed that ...
... present here a few glimpses It is sad that this bright page in the history of at Europe in 1848 , we have been led to choose so noble a race , should have been stained with a the distant and unknown Slave nation as the first deed that ...
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... present us with impressive lessons of moral and religious truth . took up the unfinished strain and concluded it . Thus the minstrel became satisfied , where , and by whom , his master was detained : and , return- ing to England , made ...
... present us with impressive lessons of moral and religious truth . took up the unfinished strain and concluded it . Thus the minstrel became satisfied , where , and by whom , his master was detained : and , return- ing to England , made ...
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... present leaf , ( though not in the favorable acceptation of day , his predictions are sufficiently striking , if the phrase , ) each day , and in spite of the cheer- not very certain of fulfilment . The Future , ful expressions made use ...
... present leaf , ( though not in the favorable acceptation of day , his predictions are sufficiently striking , if the phrase , ) each day , and in spite of the cheer- not very certain of fulfilment . The Future , ful expressions made use ...
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... present of £ 1,000 . Some , how - that he is a man famous as our English Roscius , ever , have refused to credit that so large a one who fitteth the action to the word and the sum was given , and have supposed that it was probably no ...
... present of £ 1,000 . Some , how - that he is a man famous as our English Roscius , ever , have refused to credit that so large a one who fitteth the action to the word and the sum was given , and have supposed that it was probably no ...
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... present . you do , the hole in the house shall stay as it is The garden was a wild - till woman smiled . I just to keep such a grand performance in memo- give the tails of some lines which I forget , but ry . ' My dear Miss Minny , that ...
... present . you do , the hole in the house shall stay as it is The garden was a wild - till woman smiled . I just to keep such a grand performance in memo- give the tails of some lines which I forget , but ry . ' My dear Miss Minny , that ...
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Page 118 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Page 277 - ... all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation are to be exploded as a ridiculous absurd and antiquated fashion.
Page 277 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Page 14 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Page 46 - Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Page 394 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 276 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 14 - He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
Page 276 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Page 468 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.