Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.: D. Political, Judicial and Literary, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1852 - 453 páginas |
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... estimated , without some analysis . Where , little more than two centuries ago , the untutored Indian roved through a wilderness , within sight of the blue waves that still break on the rocks where Hilton and his fellow- adventurers ...
... estimated , without some analysis . Where , little more than two centuries ago , the untutored Indian roved through a wilderness , within sight of the blue waves that still break on the rocks where Hilton and his fellow- adventurers ...
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... estimated the increase of machinery to be ten per cent . a year ; add the three years ' increase , - include the ... estimate can be formed of the power , economy and wonders , wrought by machinery , under the talisman touch of modern ...
... estimated the increase of machinery to be ten per cent . a year ; add the three years ' increase , - include the ... estimate can be formed of the power , economy and wonders , wrought by machinery , under the talisman touch of modern ...
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... estimate placed on moral obligations . Open infidelity has likewise become almost extinct among us . Moral and religious topics are more fashionable with all classes . The developments of geology and natural history inspire more and ...
... estimate placed on moral obligations . Open infidelity has likewise become almost extinct among us . Moral and religious topics are more fashionable with all classes . The developments of geology and natural history inspire more and ...
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... estimate in which mere military glare is held when contrasted with what is useful . Not that we , or any other people , can be insensible to the patriotism that defends , when need be , the hearth and the altar , that incurs sacrifices ...
... estimate in which mere military glare is held when contrasted with what is useful . Not that we , or any other people , can be insensible to the patriotism that defends , when need be , the hearth and the altar , that incurs sacrifices ...
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... estimated . The evil is chiefly confined to inexperience and ignorance ; and as they are removed , ceases . Each individual feels , also , a greater interest in having a good religion , when it is chosen by himself , and known to be his ...
... estimated . The evil is chiefly confined to inexperience and ignorance ; and as they are removed , ceases . Each individual feels , also , a greater interest in having a good religion , when it is chosen by himself , and known to be his ...
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acres advance agriculture American article Cotton arts Baines beauty become better Blackwood's Magazine Brazil capital cause cent century character chiefly civilization cloth commerce computed constitutions cotton manufactures crop cultivation Demarara duty Edinburgh Review Egypt elevated Encyclop England enterprise equal estimated Europe exist exports feet foreign France Hampshire hereafter human hundred imports improvements increased independent India influence institutions intelligence inventions Israel river kind labor lands laws less liberty live live-oak timber Liverpool Louisiana machinery McCulloch means ment millions of dollars millions of pounds mind moral mountains nations nature ocean opinion Orleans persons places political portion practical present principles progress quantity race raw cotton religion respect Revolution river Russia Smithers society soil South Carolina Spain spindles spirit steamboat supply Table tion trees truth Turkey United vessels West Indies whole yearly
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Página 393 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!
Página 202 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 44 - If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it : the die is cast, the book is written ; to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which : it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Página 202 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 120 - Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, \ Of his unrivalled pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms, with which he sprinkles all the earth.
Página 202 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 21 - There is no end to machinery. Even the horse is stripped of his harness, and finds a fleet fire-horse yoked in his stead.
Página 202 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 415 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on...
Página 202 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.