The Quarterly review, Volume 67Murray, 1841 |
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... secrets and mysteries of nature . Peace , tranquillity , and innocence shed their mingled delights around him . And to crown the enchantment of the scene , a wife , who is said to be lovely even be- yond her sex , and graced with every ...
... secrets and mysteries of nature . Peace , tranquillity , and innocence shed their mingled delights around him . And to crown the enchantment of the scene , a wife , who is said to be lovely even be- yond her sex , and graced with every ...
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... secret can be safe nowhere . The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner , where the guilty can bestow it ... secrets of guilt are never safe from detec- tion , even by men . True it is , generally speaking , that " murder will ...
... secret can be safe nowhere . The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner , where the guilty can bestow it ... secrets of guilt are never safe from detec- tion , even by men . True it is , generally speaking , that " murder will ...
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... secret history , says that the Association of general Practitioners were anxious for the apprenticeship clause , on account of the great difficulty of getting apprentices ; ' but what could have passed in the mind of the Right Reverend ...
... secret history , says that the Association of general Practitioners were anxious for the apprenticeship clause , on account of the great difficulty of getting apprentices ; ' but what could have passed in the mind of the Right Reverend ...
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... secret springs , the , to her , mysterious processes , by which the stronger sex is in- fluenced . All these ... secret of his strength or weakness : no glance of the eye , no curl of the lip , no remark shot unawares from the secret ...
... secret springs , the , to her , mysterious processes , by which the stronger sex is in- fluenced . All these ... secret of his strength or weakness : no glance of the eye , no curl of the lip , no remark shot unawares from the secret ...
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... secret of his past and subsequent reluctance : Do you not reflect that Lord Henry has had the very best , and that I have had the very worst of educations ? " The advice , however , fortunately prevailed ; after nearly five years ...
... secret of his past and subsequent reluctance : Do you not reflect that Lord Henry has had the very best , and that I have had the very worst of educations ? " The advice , however , fortunately prevailed ; after nearly five years ...
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Page 8 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week, or the next year ? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house...
Page 27 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 42 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
Page 8 - Treason!" cried the speaker —"Treason, treason," echoed from every part of the house.
Page 9 - There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace ! but there is no peace.
Page 20 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Page 522 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 46 - Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom?
Page 16 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Page 17 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die colonists ; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.