The American Whig Review, Volúmenes7-8G. H. Colton, 1848 |
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... taken . Henceforth , there can be no grand fighting , no glorious victories . What remains is a war of details , a defensive war against gue- rillas , and assassins , and the vomito . A few minor cities and places may yet be as- sailed ...
... taken . Henceforth , there can be no grand fighting , no glorious victories . What remains is a war of details , a defensive war against gue- rillas , and assassins , and the vomito . A few minor cities and places may yet be as- sailed ...
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... taken merely as an assertion that this pro- ject of a treaty contained no provision for the pecuniary payment of these claims ; and if so intended to be understood , the assertion could have had no purpose , but to mislead and confound ...
... taken merely as an assertion that this pro- ject of a treaty contained no provision for the pecuniary payment of these claims ; and if so intended to be understood , the assertion could have had no purpose , but to mislead and confound ...
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... taken by the lasso and the balls , ( las bolas . ) The lat- ter weapon is one not commonly known . It is composed of three leather thongs , the end of each containing a round stone , bound in leather . One of these stones is smaller ...
... taken by the lasso and the balls , ( las bolas . ) The lat- ter weapon is one not commonly known . It is composed of three leather thongs , the end of each containing a round stone , bound in leather . One of these stones is smaller ...
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... taken the liberty to alter into Alpaca . These animals are known to be of a larger size upon the hilly parts of Paraguay , than upon the Andes . This fact should be interesting to our agricultu rists , as we are aware that endeavors are ...
... taken the liberty to alter into Alpaca . These animals are known to be of a larger size upon the hilly parts of Paraguay , than upon the Andes . This fact should be interesting to our agricultu rists , as we are aware that endeavors are ...
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... taken in great ous in his tastes , and confines himself to numbers . the ants and eggs of a particular species , known among the Guaranis by the name of CUPIS . A small fissure serves him for a mouth , from whence he protrudes a tongue ...
... taken in great ous in his tastes , and confines himself to numbers . the ants and eggs of a particular species , known among the Guaranis by the name of CUPIS . A small fissure serves him for a mouth , from whence he protrudes a tongue ...
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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...