Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 17Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1850 |
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... looks back on the perishing memorials of her glory , turns in silence from the ordinary page of battles lost and won , and seizes on those legislative enact- ments , which , in declaring principles of truth , or expedi- ents of success ...
... looks back on the perishing memorials of her glory , turns in silence from the ordinary page of battles lost and won , and seizes on those legislative enact- ments , which , in declaring principles of truth , or expedi- ents of success ...
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... looks and thoughts downward bent , " even though he be the blind instrument of fate in operating good ; and we fear , in our day , that mammon , " the least erected spirit that fell , " continues to be the sole God of his idola- try ...
... looks and thoughts downward bent , " even though he be the blind instrument of fate in operating good ; and we fear , in our day , that mammon , " the least erected spirit that fell , " continues to be the sole God of his idola- try ...
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... look into their own minds , and to seize upon their impulses , their desires themselves , as facts to reason from , in support of desired conclusions . This led to the ideal school . " The desire of immortality , " said Plato , " proves ...
... look into their own minds , and to seize upon their impulses , their desires themselves , as facts to reason from , in support of desired conclusions . This led to the ideal school . " The desire of immortality , " said Plato , " proves ...
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... look like one to the unskilful ? Let it contradict the evidence of his senses , or his inward consciousness , or any known truth , and not only will he reject it , but the logician himself will tell him how to detect , expose and refute ...
... look like one to the unskilful ? Let it contradict the evidence of his senses , or his inward consciousness , or any known truth , and not only will he reject it , but the logician himself will tell him how to detect , expose and refute ...
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... look at the evidence in these pages , giving examples of trade diminished , destroyed and kept out of ex- istence , the full free passage of the sea from port to port prevented , vessels obliged to sail half round the globe in ballast ...
... look at the evidence in these pages , giving examples of trade diminished , destroyed and kept out of ex- istence , the full free passage of the sea from port to port prevented , vessels obliged to sail half round the globe in ballast ...
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Page 38 - His generous aim to all diviner deeds; To chase each partial purpose from his breast; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And through the tossing tide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfaltering, while the voice Of truth and virtue, up the steep ascent Of nature, calls him to his high reward, The applauding smile of Heaven?
Page 10 - ... 6. That the act or omission charged as the offense is clearly and distinctly set forth in ordinary and concise language, without repetition, and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended; 7.
Page 430 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shall be a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 431 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Page 386 - I know that the homage I now pay you, is offering a kind of violence to one who is as solicitous to shun applause, as he is assiduous to deserve it. But, my lord, this is perhaps the only particular in which your prudence will be always disappointed.
Page 12 - ... shall be taken as true unless the denial of the same be verified by the affidavit of the party, his agent or attorney.
Page 503 - Queen. From the third London edition. With a Biographical Introduction from the " Heroic Women of the French Revolution,
Page 305 - gainst the good Power in Heaven. I understood, that to this torment sad The carnal sinners are condemn'd, in whom Reason by lust is sway'd. As, in large troops And multitudinous, when winter reigns, The starlings on their wings are borne abroad; So bears the tyrannous gust those evil souls. On this side and on that, above, below, It drives them: hope of rest to solace them Is none, nor e'en of milder pang.
Page 430 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Page 524 - JAMES. Invasion of the | Territory of Alabama, | by | one thousand Spaniards, | under | Ferdinand De Soto, | in 1540.