American Quarterly Review, Volume 22Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - United States |
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... appear to future ages that the foolish rules of society were so binding , that an honourable man , and a professor of Christianity , too , was forced to consider himself on an equality with a ruffian and a coward ! But the mischief and ...
... appear to future ages that the foolish rules of society were so binding , that an honourable man , and a professor of Christianity , too , was forced to consider himself on an equality with a ruffian and a coward ! But the mischief and ...
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... appear to them that the act can be considered as a crime . They reason in this way : - " Because the people of a whole nation agree to consider the shedding of blood in war as a meritorious act , and the shedding of blood in duels as a ...
... appear to them that the act can be considered as a crime . They reason in this way : - " Because the people of a whole nation agree to consider the shedding of blood in war as a meritorious act , and the shedding of blood in duels as a ...
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... appears to have lost its savour . It is so sprinkled as not to salt the body . With men and women enough on the spot to redeem society from false morals and empty religious professions , Boston is the head - quarters of cant ...
... appears to have lost its savour . It is so sprinkled as not to salt the body . With men and women enough on the spot to redeem society from false morals and empty religious professions , Boston is the head - quarters of cant ...
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... appears to be of a lower order than might have been expected from some other symp- toms of its social state- [ whenever she generalizes under a show of candour , she degrades the American people almost to Hottentots , and then , under a ...
... appears to be of a lower order than might have been expected from some other symp- toms of its social state- [ whenever she generalizes under a show of candour , she degrades the American people almost to Hottentots , and then , under a ...
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... appear well enough at home present all the characteristics of spoiled children . Screaming and trembling at the apprehension of danger are not uncommon . [ Are the English women exempt from fear ? ] But there is something far worse in ...
... appear well enough at home present all the characteristics of spoiled children . Screaming and trembling at the apprehension of danger are not uncommon . [ Are the English women exempt from fear ? ] But there is something far worse in ...
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Page 211 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 219 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 221 - Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptised or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
Page 240 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Page 477 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Page 303 - I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.
Page 219 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 215 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Page 214 - I possessed, it may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.
Page 477 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...