The American Whig Review, Volúmenes7-8G. H. Colton, 1848 |
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... natural organization , should gradually shape itself , by a healthy and spontaneous growth . They believe that the ... nature , like the moral law , by no means a discovery of yesterday . In questions of political economy , they will ...
... natural organization , should gradually shape itself , by a healthy and spontaneous growth . They believe that the ... nature , like the moral law , by no means a discovery of yesterday . In questions of political economy , they will ...
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... nature in this respect superior to their own ; and learned to esteem a religion which could elevate man so much above the in- fluence of his inclinations . As they became acquainted with the maxims of the Gospel , their veneration for ...
... nature in this respect superior to their own ; and learned to esteem a religion which could elevate man so much above the in- fluence of his inclinations . As they became acquainted with the maxims of the Gospel , their veneration for ...
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... Natural History of Paraguay proper ; but this we shall occasionally improve , as well by our own recollection of what we ... Nature " also ascribes to this animal small , long and pendent ears , and a fondness for the water which almost ...
... Natural History of Paraguay proper ; but this we shall occasionally improve , as well by our own recollection of what we ... Nature " also ascribes to this animal small , long and pendent ears , and a fondness for the water which almost ...
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... nature available at best only in the court of his own conscience . In view of such an act he might well say to him- self : " If I could find example Of thousands who had struck anointed kings , And flourished after , I'd not do't ; but ...
... nature available at best only in the court of his own conscience . In view of such an act he might well say to him- self : " If I could find example Of thousands who had struck anointed kings , And flourished after , I'd not do't ; but ...
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... nature all the natural man— This was his sole resource , his only plan ; Till that which suits a part infects the whole , And now is grown the very habit of his soul . " It is in this morbid consciousness of his own powers , that he ...
... nature all the natural man— This was his sole resource , his only plan ; Till that which suits a part infects the whole , And now is grown the very habit of his soul . " It is in this morbid consciousness of his own powers , that he ...
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Página 156 - ... 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 98 - 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 21 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 141 - 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 156 - 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 157 - 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 514 - 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 575 - 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 132 - 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...