The Western Monthly Review, Volume 3Timothy Flint E.H. Flint, 1830 - Mississippi River Valley |
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... ideas and facts . All these observations are founded upon the principle , we repeat it , that the young mind best learns what pleases , and interests it , and what it un- derstands easily that it retains best , what it can connect , and ...
... ideas and facts . All these observations are founded upon the principle , we repeat it , that the young mind best learns what pleases , and interests it , and what it un- derstands easily that it retains best , what it can connect , and ...
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... idea of ancient history , you have been obliged , and you have done well , to give him a history of those times , which an English scholar has collected , and digested from a vast number of ancient authors . In some parts of Europe ...
... idea of ancient history , you have been obliged , and you have done well , to give him a history of those times , which an English scholar has collected , and digested from a vast number of ancient authors . In some parts of Europe ...
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... ideas of the usefulness of studies to their imme- diate applicability to the duties of particular professions . We regard those studies , which expand the mind , and make it susceptible of high intellectual enjoyments , which are as ...
... ideas of the usefulness of studies to their imme- diate applicability to the duties of particular professions . We regard those studies , which expand the mind , and make it susceptible of high intellectual enjoyments , which are as ...
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... idea of foreign politics and literature , than by reading the ludicrous extracts given by your own papers , which , we assure our readers , are very generally so made as if we were to make a volume of extracts and quotations from ...
... idea of foreign politics and literature , than by reading the ludicrous extracts given by your own papers , which , we assure our readers , are very generally so made as if we were to make a volume of extracts and quotations from ...
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... ideas of symmetry so much , that he determined to correct it . He took aim with his rifle , some thirty paces distant , at the boy's unfortunate heel , and ac- tually shot it away . The boy fell , crying murder , and badly wounded ...
... ideas of symmetry so much , that he determined to correct it . He took aim with his rifle , some thirty paces distant , at the boy's unfortunate heel , and ac- tually shot it away . The boy fell , crying murder , and badly wounded ...
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Page 497 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Page 91 - Ilk happing bird, wee helpless thing, That in the merry months o' spring Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o
Page 652 - There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.
Page 555 - The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep: And they who stand about the sick man's bed, Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow.
Page 652 - ... arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.
Page 91 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo...
Page 499 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 554 - SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow; Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea...
Page 93 - Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity ; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do ; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity ; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
Page 89 - Here are no fabulous woes or joys ; no hollow fantastic sentimentalities ; no wiredrawn refinings, either in thought or feeling : the passion that is traced before us has glowed in a living heart ; the opinion he utters has risen in his own understanding, and been a light to his own steps.