The New-York Review, Volume 8George Dearborn & Company, 1841 |
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... actions ; but it really does appear to me , that it is from this motive alone that I act . " - Vol . ii . , p . 201 . From this period , Romilly sat on the opposition benches . The whigs , from this time till 1830 , had no share in the ...
... actions ; but it really does appear to me , that it is from this motive alone that I act . " - Vol . ii . , p . 201 . From this period , Romilly sat on the opposition benches . The whigs , from this time till 1830 , had no share in the ...
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... actions , many not deserving the name of offen- ces , were punishable by death . " - Livingston's Report on the Plan of a Penal Code . This is the language of the admirable man , removed , not too soon for his own fame , but much too ...
... actions , many not deserving the name of offen- ces , were punishable by death . " - Livingston's Report on the Plan of a Penal Code . This is the language of the admirable man , removed , not too soon for his own fame , but much too ...
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... actions , or beings , evince a lower order of power than the formation of ideal scenes of beauty , or terror , which are not out of nature , so the portraits of intellectual and moral monsters , of characters out of nature , indicate ...
... actions , or beings , evince a lower order of power than the formation of ideal scenes of beauty , or terror , which are not out of nature , so the portraits of intellectual and moral monsters , of characters out of nature , indicate ...
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... action is preserved throughout ; that it is marked by simplicity and the greatness of the subject ; that just as the anger of Achilles , and its fatal consequences , form the subject of the Iliad , so the dream of Arthur , and the ...
... action is preserved throughout ; that it is marked by simplicity and the greatness of the subject ; that just as the anger of Achilles , and its fatal consequences , form the subject of the Iliad , so the dream of Arthur , and the ...
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... action , or we may embalm it with precious spices , but we can never restore life ; the fiat of the Almighty has gone forth , and the spirit has returned to him who gave it . Now this we maintain to have been the condition of chivalry ...
... action , or we may embalm it with precious spices , but we can never restore life ; the fiat of the Almighty has gone forth , and the spirit has returned to him who gave it . Now this we maintain to have been the condition of chivalry ...
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Page 506 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 197 - Comprehending all Islands within Twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the Limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Page 334 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 151 - ... a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues...
Page 219 - Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 43 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,' And dies among his worshippers.
Page 336 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes. Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace...
Page 197 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Page 220 - York, his heirs and assigns, all that part of the main land of New England, beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St. Croix, next adjoining to New Scotland in America...
Page 140 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.