The North American Review, Volume 30O. Everett, 1830 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... feelings of the people from the acts of their representatives . Our writers are fond of vague , abstract declamation about our ancestors ; but who they were , or what they did , how they thought and how they lived , what influence they ...
... feelings of the people from the acts of their representatives . Our writers are fond of vague , abstract declamation about our ancestors ; but who they were , or what they did , how they thought and how they lived , what influence they ...
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... feelings of the colonists , the same infatuation of the ministry , spurred on by the morti- fication of a former defeat , and a fixed resolution to subdue the refractory spirit of the colonies , prompted to a speedy repetition of the ...
... feelings of the colonists , the same infatuation of the ministry , spurred on by the morti- fication of a former defeat , and a fixed resolution to subdue the refractory spirit of the colonies , prompted to a speedy repetition of the ...
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... feeling how injudicious it was in the junta to send home the auxiliary Colombian division under general Castillo , earnestly solicited Bolivar to supply an auxiliary army of sufficient strength to secure the immediate independence of ...
... feeling how injudicious it was in the junta to send home the auxiliary Colombian division under general Castillo , earnestly solicited Bolivar to supply an auxiliary army of sufficient strength to secure the immediate independence of ...
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... feeling , and entire freedom from rapacity of spirit , must be ad- mitted as prominent traits in his character . After ... feelings . Bull - fights , dinners , balls , illuminations , fire - works , and all the ordinary signs of public ...
... feeling , and entire freedom from rapacity of spirit , must be ad- mitted as prominent traits in his character . After ... feelings . Bull - fights , dinners , balls , illuminations , fire - works , and all the ordinary signs of public ...
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... feelings , that he preserved his veneration ; but portraits and busts of Napoleon were the chosen ornaments in his palace of La Magdalena . It was necessary to remove out of the way men too quick - sighted not to see , and too inde ...
... feelings , that he preserved his veneration ; but portraits and busts of Napoleon were the chosen ornaments in his palace of La Magdalena . It was necessary to remove out of the way men too quick - sighted not to see , and too inde ...
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Page 524 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 100 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 319 - GAY, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven. Why perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend...
Page 568 - CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY; comprehending" the Elements of Botany, with their application to Agriculture.
Page 323 - One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing waters mark his resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er. Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more ; Down, countless fathoms down, he sinks to sleep. With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep.
Page 524 - Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers, to repeat and model into every form, lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts?
Page 516 - I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.
Page 87 - Indians within the chartered limits of the British colonies. It asserted, also, a limited sovereignty over them, and the exclusive right of extinguishing the title which occupancy gave to them. These claims have been maintained and established, as far west as the river Mississippi, by the sword.
Page 129 - Majesty's orders and instructions, namely, that your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and live stock of all sorts, are forfeited to the Crown ; with all other your effects, saving your money and household goods, and you yourselves to be removed from this his province.
Page 278 - The earth is full of life ; the living Hand Touched it with life ; and all its forms expand With principles of being made to suit Man's varied powers, and raise him from the brute. And shall the earth of higher ends be full ? — Earth which thou tread'st ! — and thy poor mind be dull t Thou talk of life, with half thy soul asleep! Thou