American Quarterly Review, Volume 9Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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... contain twelve months , or at least , that she did not consider the lapse of time as at all calculated to impair the attractions of her physiognomy , however prejudicial its effect might be upon the faces of the rest of the female part ...
... contain twelve months , or at least , that she did not consider the lapse of time as at all calculated to impair the attractions of her physiognomy , however prejudicial its effect might be upon the faces of the rest of the female part ...
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... contained in four or five essays , upon Love , Law and Physic , and Politics , contributed by Sir the husband . Being anxious that " France " should have a companion , she subse- quently made an expedition to the land of the Dilettanti ...
... contained in four or five essays , upon Love , Law and Physic , and Politics , contributed by Sir the husband . Being anxious that " France " should have a companion , she subse- quently made an expedition to the land of the Dilettanti ...
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... contain the object of her idolatry , either prominently in the foreground , or so in- geniously placed in the background , as to be quite as well fitted to draw attention . - But it is time to follow her in some of her peregrinations ...
... contain the object of her idolatry , either prominently in the foreground , or so in- geniously placed in the background , as to be quite as well fitted to draw attention . - But it is time to follow her in some of her peregrinations ...
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... contained in a couple of insignificant pamphlets , whose scarcity is such , that we might almost sup- pose our copies of them to be the only ones in existence ? How they came into our hands , is a point we leave for elucidation to those ...
... contained in a couple of insignificant pamphlets , whose scarcity is such , that we might almost sup- pose our copies of them to be the only ones in existence ? How they came into our hands , is a point we leave for elucidation to those ...
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... contains . And this is the writer who pretends to enlighten the world upon the " state of society " in one of the greatest countries of the earth ! This is the work by means of which she flatters her- self that such an object is to be ...
... contains . And this is the writer who pretends to enlighten the world upon the " state of society " in one of the greatest countries of the earth ! This is the work by means of which she flatters her- self that such an object is to be ...
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Page 15 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 313 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Page 294 - We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutrry and conservative principle of virtue, and of knowledge, in an early age.
Page 321 - It must be a clear case, it is said; a deliberate case; a palpable case; a dangerous case. But then the State is still left at liberty to decide for herself, what is clear, what is deliberate, what is palpable, what is dangerous. Do adjectives and epithets avail any thing?
Page 321 - ... tell the collector that he must collect no more duties under any of the tariff laws. This he will be somewhat puzzled to say, by the way, with a grave countenance, considering what hand South Carolina herself had in that of 1816. But, sir, the collector would probably not desist at his bidding.
Page 225 - And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Page 321 - This leads us to inquire into the origin of this government, and the source of its power. Whose agent is it ? Is it the creature of the state legislatures, or the creature of the people...
Page 321 - ... it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.
Page 313 - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Page 313 - Let it not be supposed that our object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit of national independence, and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever.