Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.: D. Political, Judicial and Literary, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1852 - 453 páginas |
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... present an offering more worthy of this interesting occasion . We live in such an era of wonders , that neither the occasion nor the age can be duly estimated , without some analysis . Where , little more than two centuries ago , the ...
... present an offering more worthy of this interesting occasion . We live in such an era of wonders , that neither the occasion nor the age can be duly estimated , without some analysis . Where , little more than two centuries ago , the ...
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... present . Into the reasoning and the results of history , on this subject , as respects general literature , it would not , in my opinion , be either neces- sary or useful , before the present audience , to enter at large . But , two ...
... present . Into the reasoning and the results of history , on this subject , as respects general literature , it would not , in my opinion , be either neces- sary or useful , before the present audience , to enter at large . But , two ...
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... present age . These useful truths must still con- tinue to ferment . Reform is the only safety - valve ; and a disregard to public opinion in this respect will , in time , lead to explosions and revolutions , even on the doorsteps of ...
... present age . These useful truths must still con- tinue to ferment . Reform is the only safety - valve ; and a disregard to public opinion in this respect will , in time , lead to explosions and revolutions , even on the doorsteps of ...
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... present appearances , which , though at times fallacious , is a rule the most correct in history , as well as in law , one of the greatest benefits to society , from an increased application of the sciences to improve the common ...
... present appearances , which , though at times fallacious , is a rule the most correct in history , as well as in law , one of the greatest benefits to society , from an increased application of the sciences to improve the common ...
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... present era , it is manifest they possess very diminished weight in the cabinet or the camp , and shed very litttle light on the great questions of government and political economy which agitate the times . The affairs of the world at ...
... present era , it is manifest they possess very diminished weight in the cabinet or the camp , and shed very litttle light on the great questions of government and political economy which agitate the times . The affairs of the world at ...
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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.