The American Whig Review, Volúmenes7-8G. H. Colton, 1848 |
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... better than perpetual war , and the support of large standing armies , to maintain the conquests . It was not justice , but policy , that dictated the offer . It was better , he thought , to pay Mexico twenty millions for her craven ...
... better than perpetual war , and the support of large standing armies , to maintain the conquests . It was not justice , but policy , that dictated the offer . It was better , he thought , to pay Mexico twenty millions for her craven ...
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... better than a base and im- pudent forgery . It is a naked paper title in the shape of legislative enactments , made by the party setting up the claim , and having not a shadow of right to stand upon . A man could as well make himself a ...
... better than a base and im- pudent forgery . It is a naked paper title in the shape of legislative enactments , made by the party setting up the claim , and having not a shadow of right to stand upon . A man could as well make himself a ...
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... better guide than Mackintosh . " Regions Cæsar never knew , Thy posterity shall sway. and which is nowhere so successfully dis- played as on the soil that nourished " our noble ancestors . " Through the reign of the Normans , the ...
... better guide than Mackintosh . " Regions Cæsar never knew , Thy posterity shall sway. and which is nowhere so successfully dis- played as on the soil that nourished " our noble ancestors . " Through the reign of the Normans , the ...
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... better the peculiar excellencies of our great poets . His taste in this depart- ment of letters was at once universal and discriminating . In a Memoir of him that will appear in this Journal as soon as the necessary materials can be ...
... better the peculiar excellencies of our great poets . His taste in this depart- ment of letters was at once universal and discriminating . In a Memoir of him that will appear in this Journal as soon as the necessary materials can be ...
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... better , & c . But he used to say laughingly , " Oh , I'll do better when I become King . " But she replied , " You ought to get the victory over your passions while you are a prince . " It so happened that soon after he had ascended ...
... better , & c . But he used to say laughingly , " Oh , I'll do better when I become King . " But she replied , " You ought to get the victory over your passions while you are a prince . " It so happened that soon after he had ascended ...
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Página 152 - ... 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 29 - 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 94 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Página 17 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 137 - And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Página 152 - 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 153 - 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 510 - I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends : to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ; or drop, like mellow fruit, as they Say, into the grave. — Any alteration, on this earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant...
Página 571 - I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for HeathclifF resembles the eternal rocks beneath : a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being...
Página 128 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...