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The ruins of Baalbec , Tyre , and Venice attest its nature to destroy no less than
its power to build up . It is only when acting in the capacity of an agent , peforming
its office every where with equal justice to all , that it promotes and permanently ...
The ruins of Baalbec , Tyre , and Venice attest its nature to destroy no less than
its power to build up . It is only when acting in the capacity of an agent , peforming
its office every where with equal justice to all , that it promotes and permanently ...
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... which might have been produced at less expense in their own land . It is the
duty of every community to guard itself against the oppressions of such a system
with as much vigilance as against the encroachments of political usurpation .
... which might have been produced at less expense in their own land . It is the
duty of every community to guard itself against the oppressions of such a system
with as much vigilance as against the encroachments of political usurpation .
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One by one , her ancient friends and supporters have been bidding her good - by
, and seeking less congenial but more valuable commercial alliances with the
more enterprising marts of the Atlantic seaboard . ' It was natural however that ...
One by one , her ancient friends and supporters have been bidding her good - by
, and seeking less congenial but more valuable commercial alliances with the
more enterprising marts of the Atlantic seaboard . ' It was natural however that ...
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The construction of the Tehuantepec route is a work of less difficult achievement ,
and would be completed within a very few years , were the difficulties , which
seem to exist at present in respect to the right of way , removed . We trust the ...
The construction of the Tehuantepec route is a work of less difficult achievement ,
and would be completed within a very few years , were the difficulties , which
seem to exist at present in respect to the right of way , removed . We trust the ...
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The amount of busines estimated is much less than the average of that daily
done by steamboats between the same points , and is unquestionably far below
the actual business which the Railroad • We discover an error in the addition of
these ...
The amount of busines estimated is much less than the average of that daily
done by steamboats between the same points , and is unquestionably far below
the actual business which the Railroad • We discover an error in the addition of
these ...
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Page 416 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 138 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 341 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 121 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through. Heaven The Triumph of a soul Forgiven...
Page 196 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Page 200 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Page 278 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 346 - And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea ; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
Page 197 - By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Page 278 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.