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We reason to a certain point , and are content with the discovery of second causes . We reason farther , and find ourselves in the same airy depths as of old . The imagination recognizes its ancient field , and begins ranging again at ...
We reason to a certain point , and are content with the discovery of second causes . We reason farther , and find ourselves in the same airy depths as of old . The imagination recognizes its ancient field , and begins ranging again at ...
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Secondly , it is assumed , that because the Association have , by reason and eloquence , persuaded the Catholics that it is their interest to try a peaceful and legal , instead of a violent and sanguinary , mode of obtaining relief from ...
Secondly , it is assumed , that because the Association have , by reason and eloquence , persuaded the Catholics that it is their interest to try a peaceful and legal , instead of a violent and sanguinary , mode of obtaining relief from ...
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He was taken into custody , but refused to give his name , or to state anything more than that he had reason for what he did . THE REVENUE .. Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the ...
He was taken into custody , but refused to give his name , or to state anything more than that he had reason for what he did . THE REVENUE .. Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the ...
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The Caput did not permit this Grace to be brought before the University , but assigned no reason . The following December Mr. Tyrwhitt offered another Grace , to permit gentleman to take their bachelor of arts degree without subscribing ...
The Caput did not permit this Grace to be brought before the University , but assigned no reason . The following December Mr. Tyrwhitt offered another Grace , to permit gentleman to take their bachelor of arts degree without subscribing ...
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Othello , " it observes , " was a Moor , but not a blackamoor ; and though in the tragedy he is called an old black ram , ' there is no reason to suppose that he was much darker than the generality of Spaniards , who indeed are half ...
Othello , " it observes , " was a Moor , but not a blackamoor ; and though in the tragedy he is called an old black ram , ' there is no reason to suppose that he was much darker than the generality of Spaniards , who indeed are half ...
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Page 206 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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Page 227 - You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by your neck until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Page 113 - And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand...
Page 145 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 21 - His high claims on our union are felt, and the sentiment universal that they should be met in a generous spirit. Under these impressions, I invite your attention to the subject, with a view, that, regarding his very important services, losses and sacrifices, a provision may be made and tendered to him, which shall correspond with the sentiments and be worthy the character of the American people.
Page 21 - I have received from my fellow-citizens in the various trusts with which I have been honored. Having commenced my service in early youth, and continued it since with few and short intervals, I have witnessed the great difficulties to which our Union has been exposed, and admired the virtue and intelligence with which they have been surmounted.
Page 3 - You must prove to her first, that you understand the simple elements, when decomposed ; the reason that brings them together ; the power that puts them in action ; the relations which they have to a thousand things besides ourselves and our wants ; the necessity of all this perpetual motion ; the understanding that looks out of the eye ; love, joy, sorrow, death and life, the future, the universe, the whole invisible abyss. Till you know all this, and can plant the dry sticks of your reason, as trophies...
Page 3 - APOLOGUE. — During a wonderful period of the world, the kings of the earth leagued themselves together to destroy all opposition ; to root out, if they could, the very thoughts of mankind. Inquisition was made for blood. The ears of the grovelling lay in wait for every murmur. On a sudden, during this great hour of danger, there arose in a hundred parts of the world, a cry, to which the cry of the Blatant Beast was a whisper. It proceeded from the wonderful multiplication of an extraordinary creature,...
Page 203 - English humanity, that heart must be callous indeed that could refuse its sympathy. I have seen the cow, the favourite cow, driven away, accompanied by the sighs, the tears, and the imprecations of a whole family, who were...
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| Title | The Examiner English literary periodicals |
| Contributors | Albany Fonblanque, Leigh Hunt, John Forster |
| Publisher | John Hunt, 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2007 |
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