The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 26Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1850 - United States |
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... present condition of Canada . The possession of the mouths of the Mississippi would give the South absolute control of the West . There are those now living in the valley , who can remember that the possession of the Delta of the ...
... present condition of Canada . The possession of the mouths of the Mississippi would give the South absolute control of the West . There are those now living in the valley , who can remember that the possession of the Delta of the ...
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... present in Europe . A brief review of some of these later publications may perhaps prepare us for a better ap- preciation , and a more correct study of the true history of Cromwell , when it shall have been written . So , too , it may ...
... present in Europe . A brief review of some of these later publications may perhaps prepare us for a better ap- preciation , and a more correct study of the true history of Cromwell , when it shall have been written . So , too , it may ...
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... present century , made the very first effort to shake itself free from the historical fallacies and fictions of David Hume . More than any one else - more even than Clarendon himself - he has contributed to foster the injustice his ...
... present century , made the very first effort to shake itself free from the historical fallacies and fictions of David Hume . More than any one else - more even than Clarendon himself - he has contributed to foster the injustice his ...
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... presents Cromwell as a systematic hypocrite in his religion . Yet at the same time he knew well how to avail himself ... present , however , we take our leave of this part of the subject , and Mr. D'Aubigné's " vindication , " in order ...
... presents Cromwell as a systematic hypocrite in his religion . Yet at the same time he knew well how to avail himself ... present , however , we take our leave of this part of the subject , and Mr. D'Aubigné's " vindication , " in order ...
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... present perceive it . If such be relly Mr. Headley's object , he might have selected an hundred scenes better adapted than the battle of Dunbar and the seige of Drogheda , to accomplish it . A poetic and highly wrought story of Sir John ...
... present perceive it . If such be relly Mr. Headley's object , he might have selected an hundred scenes better adapted than the battle of Dunbar and the seige of Drogheda , to accomplish it . A poetic and highly wrought story of Sir John ...
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Page 217 - Glenullin, whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watch-fire, all night at the gate ! A steed comes at morning : no rider is there ; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair.
Page 228 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 507 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 568 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Page 417 - And more of beautiful and strange beside : For on a silken couch of rosy pride, In midst of all, there lay a sleeping youth Of fondest beauty ; fonder, in fair sooth, Than sighs could fathom, or contentment reach : And coverlids gold-tinted like the peach, Or ripe October's faded marigolds, Fell sleek about him in a thousand folds...
Page 533 - Or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King's Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm or elsewhere...
Page 64 - ... shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production or manufacture, or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation.
Page 410 - I have now, Senators, done my duty in expressing my opinions fully, freely, and candidly, on this solemn occasion. In doing so I have been governed by the motives which have governed me in all the stages of the agitation of the slavery question since its commencement. I have exerted myself during the whole period to arrest it, with the intention of saving the Union if it could be done; and if it could not, to save the section where it has pleased Providence to cast my lot, and which I sincerely believe...
Page 255 - ... neither expedient nor agreeable with the ancient liberty of the house ; in conclusion for himself, showed, that though they had all with their voices trusted him, yet except every one of them could put into his own head their several wits, he alone in so weighty a matter was unmeet to make his grace answer.
Page 215 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.