The American Whig Review, Volúmenes7-8G. H. Colton, 1848 |
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... spirit who strove to execute them , and thereby to deserve well of his country , was cut off by a severe and lingering ill- ness ; but as he was a man free in his con- fidences , and loving to make common cause with many , he left those ...
... spirit who strove to execute them , and thereby to deserve well of his country , was cut off by a severe and lingering ill- ness ; but as he was a man free in his con- fidences , and loving to make common cause with many , he left those ...
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... spirit and heart of the nation there can be no division . The nation , as a body , extends freedom - political , social , and reli- gious to all men equally ; and out of this spring all our national and political pecu- liarities . Yet ...
... spirit and heart of the nation there can be no division . The nation , as a body , extends freedom - political , social , and reli- gious to all men equally ; and out of this spring all our national and political pecu- liarities . Yet ...
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... spirit of conquest as the rest . These last , as we now see , stand out open and undisguised . To compel our unwilling enemy , by force of arms , to sell her territory to us , is to exercise over her and her territory the rights of ...
... spirit of conquest as the rest . These last , as we now see , stand out open and undisguised . To compel our unwilling enemy , by force of arms , to sell her territory to us , is to exercise over her and her territory the rights of ...
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... spirit of the ancient Britons . Yet we cannot pass over the Druids - whose name generally awakens vague conceptions of barbaric priests chaunting their hymns to some bloody deity in the recesses of the forest , and , amid the over ...
... spirit of the ancient Britons . Yet we cannot pass over the Druids - whose name generally awakens vague conceptions of barbaric priests chaunting their hymns to some bloody deity in the recesses of the forest , and , amid the over ...
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... spirit , so diffusive among the Anglo - Saxons , by the imposition of the Rome - scot , a tax which was originated by Offa , established by Ethelwulf , and continued by Alfred ; " and which , " in the time of Gregory VII . , " amounted ...
... spirit , so diffusive among the Anglo - Saxons , by the imposition of the Rome - scot , a tax which was originated by Offa , established by Ethelwulf , and continued by Alfred ; " and which , " in the time of Gregory VII . , " amounted ...
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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...