The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1M. Bancroft, J. Wiley, and G. and C. and H. Carvill, 1833 |
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... facts ; yet , on either ground , affording points of rest to general readers , whose attention will not bear to be too long on the stretch , and sup- plying heads or hints for further consideration , to such as desire to search more ...
... facts ; yet , on either ground , affording points of rest to general readers , whose attention will not bear to be too long on the stretch , and sup- plying heads or hints for further consideration , to such as desire to search more ...
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... fact , those only , to whom the acquisition of literary knowledge is on its own account attractive , are sufficiently incited to per- severe in its pursuit . Nay , it is notorious that , even with such an incentive , too many are true ...
... fact , those only , to whom the acquisition of literary knowledge is on its own account attractive , are sufficiently incited to per- severe in its pursuit . Nay , it is notorious that , even with such an incentive , too many are true ...
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... fact . Every species of active exertion and enterprise in this busy world has its basis in some theory ; and , if we except the lowest and most grovelling of mankind , there are none but what have some degree of desire to know the ...
... fact . Every species of active exertion and enterprise in this busy world has its basis in some theory ; and , if we except the lowest and most grovelling of mankind , there are none but what have some degree of desire to know the ...
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... fact , is not so bad , as to debar us from entertainment without subjecting us to the danger of demoralization ... facts . He has access pro- bably , to the family records and traditions , ―he learns the early impressions of his subject ...
... fact , is not so bad , as to debar us from entertainment without subjecting us to the danger of demoralization ... facts . He has access pro- bably , to the family records and traditions , ―he learns the early impressions of his subject ...
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... fact , pre- clude argument , and leave little room for anything but invective and vitu- peration - a species of language neither instructive nor entertaining . All that can here be done for the quidnunc , is to present him with a brief ...
... fact , pre- clude argument , and leave little room for anything but invective and vitu- peration - a species of language neither instructive nor entertaining . All that can here be done for the quidnunc , is to present him with a brief ...
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admiration Æschylus Armenian arms ascer Asmodeus beautiful blessed boat breath brow called cause character Conradin course cried dark dear death deck deep divine dread duty earth effect England Euripides father fear feelings fortune gentleman give glory Greenland Guy de Lusignan Hanbury hand happy Harlande head heart heaven honor hope hour human king labors Lafayette land less liberty light Lindley living look mankind MARGARET OF ANJOU Mashallah master master-at-arms ment mind moral morning nation native nature never night noble o'er observed opinion passed Pera perhaps PHEDRA pleasure political Portrait portunity present racter readers replied rich scene Scythia Sedley ship side smile society Sophocles soul spirit sublunary sphere thee things thou thought tion truth turned Verplanck Victor Alfieri voice whilst whole wonder words young youth
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Página 399 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 115 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Página 125 - Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 149 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Página 126 - ... obstructed, or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace; the mass of our people borne down and impoverished by taxes to support armies and navies ; and military leaders at the head of their victorious legions becoming our lawgivers and judges. The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.
Página 377 - to consider too curiously'; but still we think that the actual truth of the particular events, in proportion as we are conscious of it, is a drawback on the pleasure as well as the dignity of tragedy.
Página 291 - ... by robbers, who, either ignorant or regardless of her quality, despoiled her of her rings and jewels, and treated her with the utmost indignity. The partition of this rich booty raised a quarrel among them ; and while their attention was thus engaged, she took...
Página 125 - ... the destruction of our state governments, or the annihilation of their control over the local concerns of the people, would lead directly to revolution and anarchy, and finally to despotism and military domination. In proportion, therefore, as the general government encroaches upon the rights of the states, in the same proportion does it impair its own power and detract from its ability to fulfil the purposes of its creation.
Página 101 - The temperature of an Andalusian midnight in summer is perfectly ethereal. We seem lifted up into a purer atmosphere ; there is a serenity of soul, a buoyancy of spirits, an elasticity of frame, that render mere existence enjoyment.
Página 125 - These great objects are necessarily connected, and can only be attained by an enlightened exercise of the powers of each within its appropriate sphere in conformity with the public will constitutionally expressed. To this end it becomes the duty of all to yield a ready and patriotic submission to the laws constitutionally enacted, and thereby promote and strengthen a proper confidence in those institutions of the several States and of the United States which the people themselves have ordained for...