The American Whig Review, Volúmenes7-8G. H. Colton, 1848 |
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... thought this would be 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 ...
... thought this would be 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 ...
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... thought and repetition in one clause , to re- lieve a slovenly omission or imperfection in another . " " But , if these views be just ; if there be nothing in the reason presented by the port for the insertion of the clause in ques ...
... thought and repetition in one clause , to re- lieve a slovenly omission or imperfection in another . " " But , if these views be just ; if there be nothing in the reason presented by the port for the insertion of the clause in ques ...
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... thought , he yet felt how poor and paltry are all the gifts and shows of intellect , compared to purity , and gen- tleness , and lowliness of heart ; could repose , with all the satisfaction which su- perior natures alone can know ...
... thought , he yet felt how poor and paltry are all the gifts and shows of intellect , compared to purity , and gen- tleness , and lowliness of heart ; could repose , with all the satisfaction which su- perior natures alone can know ...
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... thought , and feeling , and action , beyond the reach of our minds , are opened within him . Here , then , we have an example of a great mind so circumstanced that all its greatness has to come out in thought ; which , indeed , seems to ...
... thought , and feeling , and action , beyond the reach of our minds , are opened within him . Here , then , we have an example of a great mind so circumstanced that all its greatness has to come out in thought ; which , indeed , seems to ...
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... thought and speech , amidst the most serious business , though conceiving and swearing the while that he is using no ... thoughts . Of their sweet hours of courtship , when Ophelia " sucked the honey of his music vows , " we hear nothing ...
... thought and speech , amidst the most serious business , though conceiving and swearing the while that he is using no ... thoughts . Of their sweet hours of courtship , when Ophelia " sucked the honey of his music vows , " we hear nothing ...
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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...