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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... give forth its odor , " asks an eloquent writer , " and the scent of the lav- ender and of the mignionette steal viewless upon the still air around us , and the blooming bean and the new - mown hay outscent all the prepara- tions of the ...
... give forth its odor , " asks an eloquent writer , " and the scent of the lav- ender and of the mignionette steal viewless upon the still air around us , and the blooming bean and the new - mown hay outscent all the prepara- tions of the ...
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... give light by night , " — when ' reason showed that our sun was the nucleus of a family of habitable worlds like this we live upon , and that " the twinkling eyes of heaven " were other suns more glorious yet than ours . It was a higher ...
... give light by night , " — when ' reason showed that our sun was the nucleus of a family of habitable worlds like this we live upon , and that " the twinkling eyes of heaven " were other suns more glorious yet than ours . It was a higher ...
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... give us pleasure . Our food is use- ful - simply because it satisfies a want ; and even if , like the olden sage , we should " eat to life , " ( though by the way - no sane man ever did thus eat , ) still will the utility of eating ...
... give us pleasure . Our food is use- ful - simply because it satisfies a want ; and even if , like the olden sage , we should " eat to life , " ( though by the way - no sane man ever did thus eat , ) still will the utility of eating ...
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... give it value ? What can he receive in exchange for that ? He will " do " as well unfed . The tree of life no longer blooms for him . If " bread " be indeed , as political economists tell us - the standard of material value , what ...
... give it value ? What can he receive in exchange for that ? He will " do " as well unfed . The tree of life no longer blooms for him . If " bread " be indeed , as political economists tell us - the standard of material value , what ...
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... give a muscle strength . Equally vain is the at- tempt by teaching - to improve imaginative power . If we instruct ... gives life to narrative fiction , -yet a Milton sur- passes him in grandeur of moral imagining , -a Shakspeare ...
... give a muscle strength . Equally vain is the at- tempt by teaching - to improve imaginative power . If we instruct ... gives life to narrative fiction , -yet a Milton sur- passes him in grandeur of moral imagining , -a Shakspeare ...
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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.