The New-York Review, Volume 1Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell George Dearborn & Company, 1837 |
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... heart ; and in doing this , the truth may per- chance incidentally appear , that private virtue is one of the in- gredients requisite to make the good statesman . Of the defects of moral character in the third president , the book ...
... heart ; and in doing this , the truth may per- chance incidentally appear , that private virtue is one of the in- gredients requisite to make the good statesman . Of the defects of moral character in the third president , the book ...
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... heart be not mistaken for the perplexities of an embarrassed head , he will scorn the baseness of leaving behind him a written record implicating the departed , and not to be used until after his own death ; so that , when produced ...
... heart be not mistaken for the perplexities of an embarrassed head , he will scorn the baseness of leaving behind him a written record implicating the departed , and not to be used until after his own death ; so that , when produced ...
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... hearts the promptings of some impulse higher and holier than mere self - love , urging us to virtue and to the perfection of goodness as an end of our be- ing no less than as the means of our welfare . We are fair in our dealings ...
... hearts the promptings of some impulse higher and holier than mere self - love , urging us to virtue and to the perfection of goodness as an end of our be- ing no less than as the means of our welfare . We are fair in our dealings ...
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... heart . At such an era , philosophy and literature catch the prevailing spirit . Reacting upon it , they give that spirit new impulse , which in its turn again flows back upon the speculations of the sage ; and thus men venerable for ...
... heart . At such an era , philosophy and literature catch the prevailing spirit . Reacting upon it , they give that spirit new impulse , which in its turn again flows back upon the speculations of the sage ; and thus men venerable for ...
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... heart . Thus addressing us under the sanction of honored names ; thus clothed in all the grace and brilliancy that the highest genius can bestow - taught us perhaps as one of our youthful studies - reiterated now in the literature of ...
... heart . Thus addressing us under the sanction of honored names ; thus clothed in all the grace and brilliancy that the highest genius can bestow - taught us perhaps as one of our youthful studies - reiterated now in the literature of ...
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Page 160 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 352 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 45 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as .we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Page 183 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 73 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 23 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical and aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance, as they have already done the forms, of the British government.
Page 44 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 42 - He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies [and ships of war] without the consent of our Legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
Page 440 - His eyes — how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow...
Page 94 - And we also bless thy holy Name, for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear ; beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom.