Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.: D. Political, Judicial and Literary, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1852 - 453 páginas |
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... live . It would ill become one whose obligations to the people of this town are so numerous as mine to withhold his contribution , however humble , from the promotion of so laudable a desire ; and , allow me to assure my friends of this ...
... live . It would ill become one whose obligations to the people of this town are so numerous as mine to withhold his contribution , however humble , from the promotion of so laudable a desire ; and , allow me to assure my friends of this ...
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... lives no longer in Utopia alone , that he may both possess and practise those equal rights in perfect safety . Increased knowledge has given , guided , and consecrated , this increased power . And , whether on the banks of the Vistula ...
... lives no longer in Utopia alone , that he may both possess and practise those equal rights in perfect safety . Increased knowledge has given , guided , and consecrated , this increased power . And , whether on the banks of the Vistula ...
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... live in these latter days of the world , to advance everything beyond our predecessors . We , in fact , are the ancients , and those gone before us the children , of this world . live in its old age ; they in its youth . We have all to ...
... live in these latter days of the world , to advance everything beyond our predecessors . We , in fact , are the ancients , and those gone before us the children , of this world . live in its old age ; they in its youth . We have all to ...
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... lives , and millions of wealth , at an expense comparatively trifling . Or its vital assistance , more and more yearly , in the greatest practical blessing of all , the security of health ; and this , not merely by new applica- tions of ...
... lives , and millions of wealth , at an expense comparatively trifling . Or its vital assistance , more and more yearly , in the greatest practical blessing of all , the security of health ; and this , not merely by new applica- tions of ...
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... lives , and perfect more , and invent more , what shall not only enlarge the boundaries of science , but the dominion of man over rough nature , -subjugating all the elements around him , faster to promote the comforts , the wealth and ...
... lives , and perfect more , and invent more , what shall not only enlarge the boundaries of science , but the dominion of man over rough nature , -subjugating all the elements around him , faster to promote the comforts , the wealth and ...
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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 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.