The Metropolitan, Volume 3James Cochrane and Company, 1832 |
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... effect of provoking in our mind , so often as we heard of them , the idea of that last limit of excellence , beyond which it was denied , in future , eloquence should ever advance . While labouring under this infirmity in taste , we are ...
... effect of provoking in our mind , so often as we heard of them , the idea of that last limit of excellence , beyond which it was denied , in future , eloquence should ever advance . While labouring under this infirmity in taste , we are ...
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... effect of original effort , but the creation of long repeated practice . When our knight first took his seat at the Bar of the court of Chan- cery , he found , for his competitors , men rich in professional intelli- gence it is true ...
... effect of original effort , but the creation of long repeated practice . When our knight first took his seat at the Bar of the court of Chan- cery , he found , for his competitors , men rich in professional intelli- gence it is true ...
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... effect - Your question cannot be answered before your death . This answer always appeared to us to bear the air of that most ludicrous category of conceits , the Hibernicism ; and , literally understood , it undoubtedly does so . How it ...
... effect - Your question cannot be answered before your death . This answer always appeared to us to bear the air of that most ludicrous category of conceits , the Hibernicism ; and , literally understood , it undoubtedly does so . How it ...
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... effect , that of the ministers and crown - lawyers , and boldly exposed the real object of their proceedings . When Sir Charles was ex- ercising in this way every form of reproach , he was repeatedly interrupted by the Judge ( Lord ...
... effect , that of the ministers and crown - lawyers , and boldly exposed the real object of their proceedings . When Sir Charles was ex- ercising in this way every form of reproach , he was repeatedly interrupted by the Judge ( Lord ...
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... effect a division in the body of the European powers , and draw over to our side its most powerful member , surely we should do it . But I am clearly of Mr. Canning's opinion , that it will prevent instead of provoking war . " ( This ...
... effect a division in the body of the European powers , and draw over to our side its most powerful member , surely we should do it . But I am clearly of Mr. Canning's opinion , that it will prevent instead of provoking war . " ( This ...
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Page 23 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 22 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 22 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all, on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Page 112 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 111 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 111 - Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 111 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 289 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 23 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our Southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
Page 22 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.