The Southern Review, Volume 2A. E. Miller., 1828 |
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... objects , and leaving the pleasant regions of fancy and of fiction , has undertaken to record the life and fortunes of one of those extraordinary men , whose genius may be said to have changed the current of human affairs , and extended ...
... objects , and leaving the pleasant regions of fancy and of fiction , has undertaken to record the life and fortunes of one of those extraordinary men , whose genius may be said to have changed the current of human affairs , and extended ...
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... object . A due religious sentiment mingled with his medi- tations , and gave them , at times , a tinge of superstition , but it was of a sublime and lofty kind . He looked upon himself as standing in the hand of Heaven , chosen from ...
... object . A due religious sentiment mingled with his medi- tations , and gave them , at times , a tinge of superstition , but it was of a sublime and lofty kind . He looked upon himself as standing in the hand of Heaven , chosen from ...
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... object of all his labours . They beheld themselves with dismay still wafted onward , over the boundless wastes of what appeared to them a mere watery desert , sur- rounding the habitable world . What was to become of them should their ...
... object of all his labours . They beheld themselves with dismay still wafted onward , over the boundless wastes of what appeared to them a mere watery desert , sur- rounding the habitable world . What was to become of them should their ...
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... object . The great mys- tery of the ocean was revealed . His theory which had been the scoff even of sages , was triumphantly established . He had secured to him- self a glory which must be as durable as the world itself . " It is ...
... object . The great mys- tery of the ocean was revealed . His theory which had been the scoff even of sages , was triumphantly established . He had secured to him- self a glory which must be as durable as the world itself . " It is ...
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... objects of intense and inexhaustible interest ; since there is nothing to man so curious as the varieties of his own species . All these he pronounced mere harbingers of greater discoveries he had yet to make ; which would add realms of ...
... objects of intense and inexhaustible interest ; since there is nothing to man so curious as the varieties of his own species . All these he pronounced mere harbingers of greater discoveries he had yet to make ; which would add realms of ...
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Page 564 - But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 543 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States ; provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 439 - YE, That we, the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents. In the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and every of the said articles of confederation and perpetual union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained. And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United...
Page 618 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 581 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them ; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 440 - In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress ; and the members of Congress shall be protected...
Page 435 - States, with a request that it might 'be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification.
Page 447 - And whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of confederation and perpetual union...
Page 105 - ... saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it...
Page 436 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the states, and of compounding the American people into one common mass. Of consequence, when they act, they act in their states. But the measures they adopt do not, on that account, cease to be the measures of the people themselves, or become the measures of the state governments. From these conventions the Constitution derives its whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people; is 'ordained...