The American Review, and Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 1Saxton and Miles, 1843 - 588 pages |
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... strength of conception , variety , sweetness , majesty , and living power of expression are not wanting , and with these before us , we agree in the judgment of Mr. Griswold , that the volume speaks well for the past and present , and ...
... strength of conception , variety , sweetness , majesty , and living power of expression are not wanting , and with these before us , we agree in the judgment of Mr. Griswold , that the volume speaks well for the past and present , and ...
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... strength rivalling that of the proudest of them all , we need not fear the reproach of mental inactivity . In winning for ourselves a place and a name among the nations , we have been compelled to contend with diffi- culties requiring ...
... strength rivalling that of the proudest of them all , we need not fear the reproach of mental inactivity . In winning for ourselves a place and a name among the nations , we have been compelled to contend with diffi- culties requiring ...
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... strength to a self - sacrificing and generous love for the common weal . Combining with higher and stronger influences , it will at once dignify , nourish and expand them . There is much in cherishing the hope that a brighter day is ...
... strength to a self - sacrificing and generous love for the common weal . Combining with higher and stronger influences , it will at once dignify , nourish and expand them . There is much in cherishing the hope that a brighter day is ...
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... strength , it will inspire a generous enthu- siasm in the attainment of the highest moral good . Into the practical engagements and never - ceasing toil whose tendency is to bind the soul exclusively to earthly and sensual objects , it ...
... strength , it will inspire a generous enthu- siasm in the attainment of the highest moral good . Into the practical engagements and never - ceasing toil whose tendency is to bind the soul exclusively to earthly and sensual objects , it ...
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... strength Of youth's vigorous years I shrank at no dangers My heart knew no fears . But destiny weaves For the base and the brave , The doom that's appointed The fall and the grave . I thought not that Ælla Should end my career When my ...
... strength Of youth's vigorous years I shrank at no dangers My heart knew no fears . But destiny weaves For the base and the brave , The doom that's appointed The fall and the grave . I thought not that Ælla Should end my career When my ...
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Page 432 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 41 - There is no art delivered unto mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object, without which they could not consist and on which they so depend as they become actors and players, as it were, of what nature will have set forth.
Page 432 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Page 511 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 43 - I say ; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description, which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth.
Page 130 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 73 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 42 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature...
Page 75 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 44 - Grecians' divinity ; to believe, with Bembus, that they were first bringersin of all civility; to believe, with Scaliger, that no philosopher's precepts can sooner make you an honest man than the reading of Virgil; to believe, with Clauserus, the translator of Cornutus...