The United States Democratic Review, Volume 19Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1846 - United States Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... hope- lessly working on at the bidding of an- other . When the freedom of these peas- ants was first decreed , they were greatly alarmed , because it was viewed only in the light of relieving their lords from the duty of protecting them ...
... hope- lessly working on at the bidding of an- other . When the freedom of these peas- ants was first decreed , they were greatly alarmed , because it was viewed only in the light of relieving their lords from the duty of protecting them ...
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... hope , if not for a code , at least for a thorough sifting and weeding out of common - law follies ; and may Special Term distinctions perish with the rest . And when the Law and not the Letter prevails , there may come a day when the ...
... hope , if not for a code , at least for a thorough sifting and weeding out of common - law follies ; and may Special Term distinctions perish with the rest . And when the Law and not the Letter prevails , there may come a day when the ...
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... hope or fear . Through all tradition and history , families and countries retain traces to the latest posterity , of the tempers , habits , and language of their founders ; hence the polished , poetical , and philo- sophical race of ...
... hope or fear . Through all tradition and history , families and countries retain traces to the latest posterity , of the tempers , habits , and language of their founders ; hence the polished , poetical , and philo- sophical race of ...
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... hope lends : - " I hold the world in my hand , And all of peace or strife ; Man , brute , and stream and land , Are all the heirs of Life . " Pale death loud shrieked and fled , And through deep storm - glooms sped ; Its last doom had ...
... hope lends : - " I hold the world in my hand , And all of peace or strife ; Man , brute , and stream and land , Are all the heirs of Life . " Pale death loud shrieked and fled , And through deep storm - glooms sped ; Its last doom had ...
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... hope to carry at the same time . It was natural to look to Judge Marshall for this work , which was to be a national work ; and had he put aside all other tasks , and bent his strong intellect to this task alone , we know not whether he ...
... hope to carry at the same time . It was natural to look to Judge Marshall for this work , which was to be a national work ; and had he put aside all other tasks , and bent his strong intellect to this task alone , we know not whether he ...
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Page 285 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 320 - ... and the moneys arising from the loans creating such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained, or to repay the debt so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.
Page 335 - The Legislature shall have no power to pass any act granting any special charter for banking purposes; but corporations or associations may be formed for such purposes under general laws.
Page 320 - No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this State, or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two years next after the passage of such appropriation act...
Page 320 - In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the State may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State in war; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever.
Page 285 - That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints returned, Not for reflection of his face, But of his voice, the boy had burned.
Page 320 - ... and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.
Page 285 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 335 - Corporations may be formed under general laws; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and...
Page 153 - From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing Treaties and Conventions between...