The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7Wiley and Putnam, 1848 |
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... FREDERICK WILLIAM IV . KING OF PRUSSIA . [ THE. the popular cause . In a fit of childish spite against him , the Swiss were par- doned ; on motion of Collot d'Herbois , the amnesty was changed into a triumph ; a fête was given to the ...
... FREDERICK WILLIAM IV . KING OF PRUSSIA . [ THE. the popular cause . In a fit of childish spite against him , the Swiss were par- doned ; on motion of Collot d'Herbois , the amnesty was changed into a triumph ; a fête was given to the ...
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FREDERICK WILLIAM IV . KING OF PRUSSIA . [ THE accompanying portrait of the present King of Prussia , was taken from an excellent German print , furnished for the purpose , by the politeness of J. W. Schimidt , Esq . , Prussian Consul ...
FREDERICK WILLIAM IV . KING OF PRUSSIA . [ THE accompanying portrait of the present King of Prussia , was taken from an excellent German print , furnished for the purpose , by the politeness of J. W. Schimidt , Esq . , Prussian Consul ...
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... Frederick Will- iam IV . Two great military governments ruled the Germanic and Germano - Sla- vonic races - the Austrian and Prussian Both had attained to an acmé of hauteur , at 80 [ Jan. , Frederick William IV . King of Prussia .
... Frederick Will- iam IV . Two great military governments ruled the Germanic and Germano - Sla- vonic races - the Austrian and Prussian Both had attained to an acmé of hauteur , at 80 [ Jan. , Frederick William IV . King of Prussia .
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+ Frederick William - the Great Elector , as he is commonly called - was the real founder of the Prus- sian kingdom . He came to the ducal throne of Brandenburg in 1640 , and reigned more than ... Frederick William IV . King of Prussia .
+ Frederick William - the Great Elector , as he is commonly called - was the real founder of the Prus- sian kingdom . He came to the ducal throne of Brandenburg in 1640 , and reigned more than ... Frederick William IV . King of Prussia .
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... Frederick . " He who had served with the renowned Captain , in whatever rank , deemed himself invincible ! And when , in the early part of the French Revolution , the Prussian troops met with some ... Frederick William IV . King of Prussia .
... Frederick . " He who had served with the renowned Captain , in whatever rank , deemed himself invincible ! And when , in the early part of the French Revolution , the Prussian troops met with some ... Frederick William IV . King of Prussia .
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Page 57 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 45 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 114 - Then goes he to the length of all his arm ; And with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it.
Page 177 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it Struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 176 - What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.
Page 178 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 489 - Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams...
Page 176 - Finally, GOOD SENSE is the BODY of poetic genius, FANCY itS DRAPERY, MOTION itS LIFE, and IMAGINATION the SOUL that is everywhere, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.
Page 548 - WHEN maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate That...
Page 548 - Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets.