The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review, Volume 13B.B. Minor, 1847 |
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Page 44
... force of the nation , of the natural rights I accept , with equally grateful sentiments , the offer of a copy of my father's manuscript , pre- pared at the request of the Delegates from North Carolina in the Continental Congress , by ...
... force of the nation , of the natural rights I accept , with equally grateful sentiments , the offer of a copy of my father's manuscript , pre- pared at the request of the Delegates from North Carolina in the Continental Congress , by ...
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... force by the omis- sion of the splenetic and invidious remarks in which he indulges . There is no real ground of jealousy between these two States . The recollections of Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony belong equally to both . Walter ...
... force by the omis- sion of the splenetic and invidious remarks in which he indulges . There is no real ground of jealousy between these two States . The recollections of Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony belong equally to both . Walter ...
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... force , were left in the barge went ashore , when one of great impediments , but did not dishearten them , George Cassen , was slain by the sava- Smith . With a crew of six or seven , he ges . Smith , in the meanwhile , not suspect ...
... force , were left in the barge went ashore , when one of great impediments , but did not dishearten them , George Cassen , was slain by the sava- Smith . With a crew of six or seven , he ges . Smith , in the meanwhile , not suspect ...
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... force and the poem has merit . We will endeavor to give a bird's eye view of it , with some specimens of his style . 66 The character of Morvale , the hero , has a mar- vellous resemblance to Byron's Conrad , and evil- disposed persons ...
... force and the poem has merit . We will endeavor to give a bird's eye view of it , with some specimens of his style . 66 The character of Morvale , the hero , has a mar- vellous resemblance to Byron's Conrad , and evil- disposed persons ...
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... force a passage to the right shore of the Alpon , in order to advance to Villa Nuova , but he was not more successful . All the often repeated attempts to take the little wooden bridge of Arcole were that day frustrated . In vain first ...
... force a passage to the right shore of the Alpon , in order to advance to Villa Nuova , but he was not more successful . All the often repeated attempts to take the little wooden bridge of Arcole were that day frustrated . In vain first ...
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Page 7 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 300 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 331 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 409 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 199 - You did promise Powhatan what was yours should bee his, and he the like to you; you called him father being in his land a stranger, and by the same reason so must I doe you...
Page 204 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Page 160 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Page 99 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 320 - That the people of Virginia have free trade as the people of England do enjoy to all places and with all nations according to the lawes of that commonwealth, and that Virginia shall enjoy all priviledges equall with any English plantations in America.