The American Whig Review, Volumen1;Volumen7Wiley and Putnam, 1848 |
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... less than a robbery , with the insult added of throwing our purse in the face of our victim , by way of charity , or for the sake of appearances . The object is to dismember the Mexican empire , and appropriate her territories to our ...
... less than a robbery , with the insult added of throwing our purse in the face of our victim , by way of charity , or for the sake of appearances . The object is to dismember the Mexican empire , and appropriate her territories to our ...
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... less obvi- ous , though , perhaps , not less important ) to their moral integrity , their ceaseless en- terprise , ( their roving habits stimulated by natural inquisitiveness , and improved by their advantages , ) their intellectual ...
... less obvi- ous , though , perhaps , not less important ) to their moral integrity , their ceaseless en- terprise , ( their roving habits stimulated by natural inquisitiveness , and improved by their advantages , ) their intellectual ...
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... less subdued " by the unwearied industry of the monks . " " The forests were cleared , the marshes drained , roads opened , bridges erected , and the waste lands reclaimed . Plentiful harvests waved on the coasts of Northumbria , and ...
... less subdued " by the unwearied industry of the monks . " " The forests were cleared , the marshes drained , roads opened , bridges erected , and the waste lands reclaimed . Plentiful harvests waved on the coasts of Northumbria , and ...
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... less operative , nor the less ap- preciated . The " tiers état " have been ever since gradually elevating themselves , until the period of our own political origin , when the democratic principle was pro- claimed to the world as the ...
... less operative , nor the less ap- preciated . The " tiers état " have been ever since gradually elevating themselves , until the period of our own political origin , when the democratic principle was pro- claimed to the world as the ...
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... less free than when under the sway of those early ( barbaric ) chieftains ; the stock plant- ed on British soil has permanently advanced to the full fruition of spiritual and physi- cal liberty . In brief , where the people are less ...
... less free than when under the sway of those early ( barbaric ) chieftains ; the stock plant- ed on British soil has permanently advanced to the full fruition of spiritual and physi- cal liberty . In brief , where the people are less ...
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Página 158 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 33 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 162 - When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Página 162 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Página 158 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Página 159 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Página 159 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Página 21 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 167 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white than snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Página 158 - What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet ? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other. For it is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind.