The Southern literary messenger, Volumes 24-251857 |
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... Charles Thomas at War- wick , where were the public rope - walks ; this place being quite a village at that time- 200 fathoms of 5 inch rope . 20 fathoms of 6 inch rope . 20 fathoms of 5 inch rope . 20 fathoms of 5 inch rope . 100 ...
... Charles Thomas at War- wick , where were the public rope - walks ; this place being quite a village at that time- 200 fathoms of 5 inch rope . 20 fathoms of 6 inch rope . 20 fathoms of 5 inch rope . 20 fathoms of 5 inch rope . 100 ...
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... Charles City County , on the Chickahominy River , about twelve miles . from its mouth . In April 1777 , the Naval Board purchased one hundred and nineteen acres of land , for the sum of five hundred and ninety - five pounds at that ...
... Charles City County , on the Chickahominy River , about twelve miles . from its mouth . In April 1777 , the Naval Board purchased one hundred and nineteen acres of land , for the sum of five hundred and ninety - five pounds at that ...
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... Charles Sumner . We give the Rev. Sydney Smith and all other writers in the Review , full credit for sincerity , and have no objection to their indulging the cacoethes scribendi to any extent at our expense . Only we desire a moderate ...
... Charles Sumner . We give the Rev. Sydney Smith and all other writers in the Review , full credit for sincerity , and have no objection to their indulging the cacoethes scribendi to any extent at our expense . Only we desire a moderate ...
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... Charles the First through Vandyke's por- trait ; we are conscious of Rousseau's sentiment as it is revealed in his Confes- sions ; while the anecdotical industry of James Boswell keeps Dr. Johnson before us a living reality . Perhaps ...
... Charles the First through Vandyke's por- trait ; we are conscious of Rousseau's sentiment as it is revealed in his Confes- sions ; while the anecdotical industry of James Boswell keeps Dr. Johnson before us a living reality . Perhaps ...
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... Charles Sumner . But in either of these cases , what a struggle must it be for the speaker ( un- less he reads out and out ) to keep his thoughts before him - to keep their ranks unbroken ! How difficult to re - produce precisely the ...
... Charles Sumner . But in either of these cases , what a struggle must it be for the speaker ( un- less he reads out and out ) to keep his thoughts before him - to keep their ranks unbroken ! How difficult to re - produce precisely the ...
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Página 88 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume.
Página 213 - WE knew it would rain, for all the morn. A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
Página 475 - I deemed that if they were put under a sort of cover I might gain my end ; and happening to have a mask in the house, I told them all to stand and speak boldly from under cover of the mask. " I began with the youngest (Anne, afterwards Acton Bell), and asked what a child like her most wanted ; she answered, 'Age and experience.
Página 91 - But the power of Congress over the person or property of a citizen can never be a mere discretionary power under our Constitution and form of Government. The powers of the Government and the rights and privileges of the citizen are regulated and plainly defined by the Constitution itself.
Página 343 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 90 - And if the Constitution recognizes the right of property of the master in a slave, and makes no distinction between that description of property and other property owned by a citizen, no tribunal, acting under the authority of the United States, whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, has a right to draw such a distinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which have been provided for the protection of private property against the encroachments of the government.
Página 479 - HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, , Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 475 - A circumstance now occurs to my mind which I may as well mention. When my children were very young, when, as far as I can remember, the oldest was about ten years of age, and the youngest about four, thinking that they knew more than I had yet discovered, in order to make them speak with less timidity, I deemed that if they were put...
Página 420 - The light clear element which the isle wears Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers, Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers. And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep ; And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain.
Página 174 - On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break, As down he bears before the gale.