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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... produce a treaty of peace , the attention , not only of the people of the United States , but of the whole civilized world , has been turned to the origin , justice , and probable consequences of the sanguinary war now pending between ...
... produce a treaty of peace , the attention , not only of the people of the United States , but of the whole civilized world , has been turned to the origin , justice , and probable consequences of the sanguinary war now pending between ...
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... produce compared with labor , as population in- creases in density . I concur with them , that if a community continues to increase after all its good lands are taken into cultivation , such in- crease must be at the expense of lower ...
... produce compared with labor , as population in- creases in density . I concur with them , that if a community continues to increase after all its good lands are taken into cultivation , such in- crease must be at the expense of lower ...
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... produces three thousand six hundred pounds of rice in two crops in the year , which , at two pounds a day , would be ... produce to an extent which retains them on the brink of starvation . Where the labor - market is overstocked , wages ...
... produces three thousand six hundred pounds of rice in two crops in the year , which , at two pounds a day , would be ... produce to an extent which retains them on the brink of starvation . Where the labor - market is overstocked , wages ...
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... produced in my mind a con- viction that this social evil exists in the province of Foqueen to an extent which would be incredible , unless the fullest evidence were at hand to establish its truth . In the other parts of China which I ...
... produced in my mind a con- viction that this social evil exists in the province of Foqueen to an extent which would be incredible , unless the fullest evidence were at hand to establish its truth . In the other parts of China which I ...
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... produce , when compared with labor , must rise with the increasing density of population , though , perhaps , not in the same ratio , or , in other words , that it will require a greater expense of labor to procure the same amount of ...
... produce , when compared with labor , must rise with the increasing density of population , though , perhaps , not in the same ratio , or , in other words , that it will require a greater expense of labor to procure the same amount of ...
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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.