The New-York Review, Volume 10; Volumes 19-20George Dearborn & Company, 1842 - American periodicals |
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... virtues and public services , have not been without their fruit . Thus encouraged , we propose to notice , as fully as our limits will permit , the fresh and most attractive volumes whose titles are prefixed to this article , and which ...
... virtues and public services , have not been without their fruit . Thus encouraged , we propose to notice , as fully as our limits will permit , the fresh and most attractive volumes whose titles are prefixed to this article , and which ...
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... virtue who was at the same time a friend to his country . He was a stranger in Philadel- phia , but had heard that Mr. Duchè ( Dushay they pronounce it ) 1842. ] Opening of the Congress of 1774 . 9 8 [ January , Life and Character of ...
... virtue who was at the same time a friend to his country . He was a stranger in Philadel- phia , but had heard that Mr. Duchè ( Dushay they pronounce it ) 1842. ] Opening of the Congress of 1774 . 9 8 [ January , Life and Character of ...
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... virtue and patri- otism will not affect the right or the faculty of independent judgment , and it must exist or the exercise of a fair judgment is hopeless . The spirit of the Revolution , too , sympathy with republican institutions ...
... virtue and patri- otism will not affect the right or the faculty of independent judgment , and it must exist or the exercise of a fair judgment is hopeless . The spirit of the Revolution , too , sympathy with republican institutions ...
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... virtue . He stood by his dying bed and there listened to the outpourings of a heart filled to overflowing with resentment at the wrongs of his country , then not the hundredth part of what they were so soon to be . " Not long before Mr ...
... virtue . He stood by his dying bed and there listened to the outpourings of a heart filled to overflowing with resentment at the wrongs of his country , then not the hundredth part of what they were so soon to be . " Not long before Mr ...
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... virtues . The Americans , at least , have acted like men ; gone to the bottom at once , and set the whole upon the whole . Our conduct has been that of pet children ; we have thrown a pebble at a mastiff and are surprised it was not ...
... virtues . The Americans , at least , have acted like men ; gone to the bottom at once , and set the whole upon the whole . Our conduct has been that of pet children ; we have thrown a pebble at a mastiff and are surprised it was not ...
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Page 415 - IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspeare spake ; the...
Page 496 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 115 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 240 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 241 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Page 330 - Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any commonwealth ; and whereas many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind...
Page 331 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 60 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Page 241 - Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" And loud that clarion voice replied Excelsior! "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Page 240 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.