Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 2Coolidge & Wiley, 1849 |
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... EFFECT OF THE TIDES , 77 VI . POSTAL REFORM , VII . THE FREE SOIL MOVEMENT , VIII . SHORT REVIEWS AND NOTICES , 82 105 126 VI . ART . I. THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1848 , II . THE ETERNITY OF GOD , DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE NORSEMEN ...
... EFFECT OF THE TIDES , 77 VI . POSTAL REFORM , VII . THE FREE SOIL MOVEMENT , VIII . SHORT REVIEWS AND NOTICES , 82 105 126 VI . ART . I. THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1848 , II . THE ETERNITY OF GOD , DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE NORSEMEN ...
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... effect more conspicuous than in America , where in two generations the wild Irishman becomes a decent citizen , order- ly , temperate , and intelligent . This done or even a - doing , as it is now , we shall go forth to realize our ...
... effect more conspicuous than in America , where in two generations the wild Irishman becomes a decent citizen , order- ly , temperate , and intelligent . This done or even a - doing , as it is now , we shall go forth to realize our ...
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... effect , when attorney - general in 1719 , he had given a written opinion in conjunction with Talbot , then solicitor - general . When sitting twenty years af- terwards as Chancellor , Lord Hardwicke had occasion to refer to this ...
... effect , when attorney - general in 1719 , he had given a written opinion in conjunction with Talbot , then solicitor - general . When sitting twenty years af- terwards as Chancellor , Lord Hardwicke had occasion to refer to this ...
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... effect in the exclusion of the proof necessary to sustain his cause , endeavoured to distinguish between rules proper to be adopted in ordinary civil cases , and those by which the impe- rial court of parliament should be governed . He ...
... effect in the exclusion of the proof necessary to sustain his cause , endeavoured to distinguish between rules proper to be adopted in ordinary civil cases , and those by which the impe- rial court of parliament should be governed . He ...
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... that be done ; how know in advance the full effect of conservative influences , and how they compare with those which are the reverse , and on NO . V. 4 which side the balance will lie , for on that 1848. ] 49 The Law of Evidence .
... that be done ; how know in advance the full effect of conservative influences , and how they compare with those which are the reverse , and on NO . V. 4 which side the balance will lie , for on that 1848. ] 49 The Law of Evidence .
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Page 122 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Page 423 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 55 - Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 418 - The preparatory poem * is biographical, and conducts the history of the Author's mind to the point when he was emboldened to hope that his faculties were sufficiently matured for entering upon the arduous labour which he had proposed to himself ; and the two Works have the same kind of relation to each other, if he may so express himself, as the antechapel has to the body of a gothic church.
Page 507 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 74 - Do men take first, then claim ? Do thus the seasons run their course with them ? — Her lips were seal'd ; her head sank on his breast. 'Tis said that laughs were heard within the wood : But who should hear them ? and whose laughs ? and why?
Page 421 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Page 72 - Poseidon, the sea-king, reveres, And whom his brother, stubborn Dis, hath pray'd To turn in pity the averted cheek Of her he bore away, with promises, Nay, with loud oath before dread Styx itself, To give her daily more and sweeter flowers Than he made drop from her on Enna's dell. Rhaicos was looking from his father's door At the long trains that hastened to the town From all the valleys, like bright rivulets...
Page 72 - Echion ! do not strike That tree : it must be hollow ; for some god Speaks from within. Come thyself near. " Again Both turn'd toward it : and behold ! there sat Upon the moss below, with her two palms Pressing it, on each side, a maid in form.
Page 71 - Rhaicos was born amid the hills wherefrom Gnidos the light of Caria is discern'd, And small are the white-crested that play near And smaller onward are the purple waves. Thence festal choirs were visible, all...