American Quarterly Review, Volume 4Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 - American essays |
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... thousand years ' standing , have , during the course of these successive ages , usurped the place of truth ; have retarded the natural progress of improvement , and directed the efforts of the great and learned , to inquiries at best ...
... thousand years ' standing , have , during the course of these successive ages , usurped the place of truth ; have retarded the natural progress of improvement , and directed the efforts of the great and learned , to inquiries at best ...
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... thousand and mixed sensations of which it is the result , would be of no avail in edu- cation ? The mind is a chaos , and it is only the spirit of inquiry moving over it which can separate its mingled elements . Mind then is capable of ...
... thousand and mixed sensations of which it is the result , would be of no avail in edu- cation ? The mind is a chaos , and it is only the spirit of inquiry moving over it which can separate its mingled elements . Mind then is capable of ...
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... thousand years . The truth is , that all the time ante- rior to the Seventeenth Dynasty of Manetho , may be consider- ed as the fabulous period of Egyptian history , for which no au- thentic materials whatever existed in the time of any ...
... thousand years . The truth is , that all the time ante- rior to the Seventeenth Dynasty of Manetho , may be consider- ed as the fabulous period of Egyptian history , for which no au- thentic materials whatever existed in the time of any ...
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... thousand Christian warriors reduced Damietta , and attempted to penetrate into the country . But , overcome by the climate , and shut up between the canals , they were compelled to capitulate . Thirty years afterwards , a similar ...
... thousand Christian warriors reduced Damietta , and attempted to penetrate into the country . But , overcome by the climate , and shut up between the canals , they were compelled to capitulate . Thirty years afterwards , a similar ...
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... con- form . And when it is considered that the whole code is compos- ed of only two thousand two hundred and eighty - one articles , and that the judges are not to refuse to decide 1828. ] 59 Jurisprudence of Louisiana .
... con- form . And when it is considered that the whole code is compos- ed of only two thousand two hundred and eighty - one articles , and that the judges are not to refuse to decide 1828. ] 59 Jurisprudence of Louisiana .
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Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 147 - In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth -, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth; from heaven it came, to heaven...
Page 397 - Marshal of the district into which they are brought ; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the Slave Trade by commanders of The United States
Page 284 - Thou art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee; Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian, and guide : He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee ; And death has no sting, for the Saviour hasoied.
Page 396 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Page 196 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Page 274 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Page 282 - Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.