Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 5Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1844 |
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... thing in its proper place , and at the proper time . He has every where given us the close con- nection between the military and civil affairs , and shown how they influenced each other . Mr. Alison , after the fashion of the English ...
... thing in its proper place , and at the proper time . He has every where given us the close con- nection between the military and civil affairs , and shown how they influenced each other . Mr. Alison , after the fashion of the English ...
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... thing was done not under the reign of Petticoat No. 1 , but at the beginning of that of Petticoat No. 2. " ( Mem . 1 , 326. ) Before concluding this note , it is proper to observe , that in an absolute monarchy like that of France ...
... thing was done not under the reign of Petticoat No. 1 , but at the beginning of that of Petticoat No. 2. " ( Mem . 1 , 326. ) Before concluding this note , it is proper to observe , that in an absolute monarchy like that of France ...
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... professed regard for Madame Pompadour , interfere at the time in the execution of her vengeance , and that the thing was forgotten afterwards . country people were unknown to history ; they were scarce- 1844. ] 11 The French Revolution .
... professed regard for Madame Pompadour , interfere at the time in the execution of her vengeance , and that the thing was forgotten afterwards . country people were unknown to history ; they were scarce- 1844. ] 11 The French Revolution .
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... thing that is new and untried . Thus do philosophy and government , in England , act and re - act on each other . While the spirit of philosophy has quickened and developed the reforms of the government , the government , on the other ...
... thing that is new and untried . Thus do philosophy and government , in England , act and re - act on each other . While the spirit of philosophy has quickened and developed the reforms of the government , the government , on the other ...
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... thing . It is interesting to recur , for a moment , to some particulars concerning the meeting of 1614. The speaker of the tiers etat was then obliged to address the king on his knees , while those of the clergy and nobility ad- dressed ...
... thing . It is interesting to recur , for a moment , to some particulars concerning the meeting of 1614. The speaker of the tiers etat was then obliged to address the king on his knees , while those of the clergy and nobility ad- dressed ...
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Page 495 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Page 444 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 438 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 212 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Page 438 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden (till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat!), Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 452 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th...
Page 452 - Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch; 490 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good and final hope.
Page 367 - I leave where I find it — in the hands of their own governments. It is their affair, not mine. Nor do I complain of the peculiar effect which the magnitude of that population has had in the distribution of power under this federal government. We know, sir, that the representation of the States in the other House is not equal. We know that great advantage in that respect, is enjoyed by the slave-holding States...
Page 454 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 264 - Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.