The United States Democratic Review, Volume 22J.& H.G. Langley, 1848 Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... equal surprise , discover that all hope of European intervention in their behalf has vanished , and that all the foreign aid they get consists in the advocacy of the justice of their pretensions by the leading public journals of England ...
... equal surprise , discover that all hope of European intervention in their behalf has vanished , and that all the foreign aid they get consists in the advocacy of the justice of their pretensions by the leading public journals of England ...
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... equal and exact justice to all nations , nor to jostle it out of the constitutional orbit in which it revolves . " He distinctly declared also on another occasion , that the continued refusal of Mexico to acknowledge the independence of ...
... equal and exact justice to all nations , nor to jostle it out of the constitutional orbit in which it revolves . " He distinctly declared also on another occasion , that the continued refusal of Mexico to acknowledge the independence of ...
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... equal to 133 lbs . at a tael and a - half , or 15 mace ; of course the laborer requires fifteen days to earn these 133 pounds of rice , or about 89-10 lbs . a day , which , allowing a pound a - day to each individual , would not be ...
... equal to 133 lbs . at a tael and a - half , or 15 mace ; of course the laborer requires fifteen days to earn these 133 pounds of rice , or about 89-10 lbs . a day , which , allowing a pound a - day to each individual , would not be ...
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... equal to the expenditure , falling short only $ 33,677 . In the first year of the operation of the cheap system , the deficit was $ 597,098 , and for the preceding eight years under the old rates , the aggregate deficit was $ 1,222,249 ...
... equal to the expenditure , falling short only $ 33,677 . In the first year of the operation of the cheap system , the deficit was $ 597,098 , and for the preceding eight years under the old rates , the aggregate deficit was $ 1,222,249 ...
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... equal rights be ever so vigilant . The condition of France is an instance of what may be effected through official corruption . Nominally , under the charter of 1830 , a constitutional king , through the in- fluence of corruption ...
... equal rights be ever so vigilant . The condition of France is an instance of what may be effected through official corruption . Nominally , under the charter of 1830 , a constitutional king , through the in- fluence of corruption ...
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Page 309 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 44 - Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone ? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
Page 213 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 310 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 43 - A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination: and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.
Page 42 - The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Page 42 - We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life : our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest.
Page 531 - ... successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? To all these noble lords the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.
Page 133 - The consequence of all these causes has been, a great subdivision of the soil, and a great equality of condition ; the true basis, most certainly, of a popular government.
Page 187 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.