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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... thing exotick , and de- preciating every thing indigenous . Can there be an accusation more opposed to our very existence , more boldly ridiculous ? In all the more liberal and noble branches of science and litera- ture , it would ...
... thing exotick , and de- preciating every thing indigenous . Can there be an accusation more opposed to our very existence , more boldly ridiculous ? In all the more liberal and noble branches of science and litera- ture , it would ...
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... thing of the kind I ever heard before . It is difficult at any time to en- ter this magnificent cathedral without being impressed with certain indescribable feelings of solemnity . I more particular- ly experienced this on first ...
... thing of the kind I ever heard before . It is difficult at any time to en- ter this magnificent cathedral without being impressed with certain indescribable feelings of solemnity . I more particular- ly experienced this on first ...
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... thing splendid in decoration , and noble in architecture , the mind is with difficulty divested of a mysterious sensation of awe mingled with an emotion of religious sublimity . From the surrounding objects the thoughts are diverted ...
... thing splendid in decoration , and noble in architecture , the mind is with difficulty divested of a mysterious sensation of awe mingled with an emotion of religious sublimity . From the surrounding objects the thoughts are diverted ...
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... things had their being , which provided for the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field , and which he beheld shining in the stars and vegetating in trees and herbs , would not forsake him . This faith was never put to the proof ...
... things had their being , which provided for the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field , and which he beheld shining in the stars and vegetating in trees and herbs , would not forsake him . This faith was never put to the proof ...
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... things ; one may stretch one's view too far as well as confine it too near . He that goes along with his eyes fixed on the ground will be liable to miss his way , or run into danger ; so we exhort him to look up , that he may see the ...
... things ; one may stretch one's view too far as well as confine it too near . He that goes along with his eyes fixed on the ground will be liable to miss his way , or run into danger ; so we exhort him to look up , that he may see the ...
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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.
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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?
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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.