The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 8David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1810 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... relation to the aggressions of the former upon . our neutral rights , he thus , in 1806 , expresses himself . " A solicitude about the ability of Great Britain to resist France , will be understood by some of the weak , and will be ...
... relation to the aggressions of the former upon . our neutral rights , he thus , in 1806 , expresses himself . " A solicitude about the ability of Great Britain to resist France , will be understood by some of the weak , and will be ...
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... relations ; that the duty of a patriot was not to rest content with devising and recommending forms of government , but , by instilling sound principles into the minds of his fellow - citizens , to prepare the way for the gradual ...
... relations ; that the duty of a patriot was not to rest content with devising and recommending forms of government , but , by instilling sound principles into the minds of his fellow - citizens , to prepare the way for the gradual ...
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... relations among the nations of the world , of which those of former times had no example ; or at least none of any strong affinity . The conclusiveness of his reasoning this is not the place , or the season to investigate . The question ...
... relations among the nations of the world , of which those of former times had no example ; or at least none of any strong affinity . The conclusiveness of his reasoning this is not the place , or the season to investigate . The question ...
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... relation to this country and that , to notice those nice shades of difference , which exist in spite of similarity of language and origin . To do this with success , requires strong advantages of observation 50 [ JAN . THE YANKEY IN LONDON ...
... relation to this country and that , to notice those nice shades of difference , which exist in spite of similarity of language and origin . To do this with success , requires strong advantages of observation 50 [ JAN . THE YANKEY IN LONDON ...
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... relations of his wife . He died at the age of 81 years , 40 of which he had spent in his office . We learn from his works and the report of his contempora- ries , that he was well read in the Hebrew and spoke it with fluency . This was ...
... relations of his wife . He died at the age of 81 years , 40 of which he had spent in his office . We learn from his works and the report of his contempora- ries , that he was well read in the Hebrew and spoke it with fluency . This was ...
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Page 166 - Think what with them they would do That without them dare to woo ; And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be ? Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair: If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve : If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? George Wither.
Page 124 - The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters who had successively dozed away their lives and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam, and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety that they were never either heard or talked of— which, next to being universally applauded, should be the object of ambition of all magistrates and rulers.
Page 27 - Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem : Non quia vexari quemquam est jucunda voluptas, Sed, quibus ipse malis careas, quia cernere suave est.
Page 165 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Page 105 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold; either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index,0 by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Page 125 - ... casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller.
Page 311 - IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had dofft her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.
Page 314 - But see ! the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest ; Time is, our tedious song should here have ending: Heaven's youngest-teemed star Hath fixed her polished car, Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending: And all about the courtly stable Bright-harnessed Angels sit in order serviceable.
Page 313 - With terror of that blast Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne.
Page 125 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.