American Quarterly Review, Volume 22Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - United States |
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... fact , that if a man is insulted on shore , his enemy can triumph over him ; for what does a low- minded , vindictive miscreant care for the slight punishment which the civil law inflicts on him ? Are we aware of the inadequacy of the ...
... fact , that if a man is insulted on shore , his enemy can triumph over him ; for what does a low- minded , vindictive miscreant care for the slight punishment which the civil law inflicts on him ? Are we aware of the inadequacy of the ...
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... fact will come before an astonished world that we have been bribed to a reinstatement by the arrearages of this poor young man . If we saw fit to restore him to his former rank , why withhold his paltry wages ? Ah ! little does the ...
... fact will come before an astonished world that we have been bribed to a reinstatement by the arrearages of this poor young man . If we saw fit to restore him to his former rank , why withhold his paltry wages ? Ah ! little does the ...
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... fact , a man becomes despicable when he interferes with the domestic arrangements of his wife , and it is right and fitting that it should be so ; nature intended them for different pursuits . Miss Martineau wishes to see the day when ...
... fact , a man becomes despicable when he interferes with the domestic arrangements of his wife , and it is right and fitting that it should be so ; nature intended them for different pursuits . Miss Martineau wishes to see the day when ...
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... fact - known only to very few - so conspicuously before the public eye ? For what purpose did she tell the world that the author was friendly to bodily recreation on part of the Sabbath ? We know her motive ; it was to make the author ...
... fact - known only to very few - so conspicuously before the public eye ? For what purpose did she tell the world that the author was friendly to bodily recreation on part of the Sabbath ? We know her motive ; it was to make the author ...
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... fact ; but I do doubt it . " She says she was " favoured with the confidence of a great number of the prisoners in the Philadelphia penitentiary , where absolute seclusion is the principle of punishment . Every one of these prisoners ...
... fact ; but I do doubt it . " She says she was " favoured with the confidence of a great number of the prisoners in the Philadelphia penitentiary , where absolute seclusion is the principle of punishment . Every one of these prisoners ...
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Page 211 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 219 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 221 - Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptised or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
Page 240 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Page 477 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Page 303 - I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.
Page 219 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 215 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Page 214 - I possessed, it may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.
Page 477 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...