The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan, Volumen18

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1794
Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c.
 

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Página 193 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Página 372 - High in the midst, upon his urn reclin'd (His sea-green mantle waving with the wind), The god appear'd : he turn'd his azure eyes Where...
Página 121 - In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the' arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes
Página 372 - Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round; In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.
Página 193 - The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion, that, contrary to the order of human events, they will for ever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms, with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a .rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
Página 372 - Grav'd on his urn appear'd the moon, that guides His fwelling waters, and alternate tides ; • • The figur'd ftreams in waves of filver roll'd...
Página 372 - Firft the fam'd authors of his ancient name, The winding Ifis and the fruitful Tame: The Kennet fwift, for filver eels renown'd...
Página 276 - I am so deeply impressed with the truth of this opinion, that were this evening to be the last of my life, I would not only say to the asylum of my ancestors, and my beloved native country, with the patriot of Venice, "Esto perpetua...
Página 459 - The feelings all in outrage borne ; The wond'rous net perplex'd and torn, Where mem'ry erft, by genius taught, Immortal vifions caught ; A viewlefs train, the furies fpread Their mantle o'er the poet's head ; Hell-painted texture, warping round A curtain clofe, a gloom profound ; With horrid ftrains all holy things they chace, And pour th' expanfive veil o'er nature's goodly face.
Página 276 - There is but one method of preventing crime and of rendering a republican form of government durable ; and that is, by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the State, by means of proper modes and places of education ; and this can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the legislature. I am so deeply impressed with...

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