The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 1Wiley and Halsted, 1820 |
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... believe that he would have attained a high rank in the line of life which he had chosen . But the peculiar misfor- tunes of his family , forced him to retrace his steps , and hasten back to the protection of the females and children of ...
... believe that he would have attained a high rank in the line of life which he had chosen . But the peculiar misfor- tunes of his family , forced him to retrace his steps , and hasten back to the protection of the females and children of ...
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... believe to be much more difficult and expensive , in appear- ance than in reality . To more extensive commercial advantages , the Wabash will unite that of supporting on its banks , and those of its tributaries , a greater population ...
... believe to be much more difficult and expensive , in appear- ance than in reality . To more extensive commercial advantages , the Wabash will unite that of supporting on its banks , and those of its tributaries , a greater population ...
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... believe the western country will have the advan- tage . For , although there is more level and rich land , yet there is a less surface occupied by swamps and marshes , which requires much time and labour to reclaim , and render dry ...
... believe the western country will have the advan- tage . For , although there is more level and rich land , yet there is a less surface occupied by swamps and marshes , which requires much time and labour to reclaim , and render dry ...
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... believe , the greatest quantity of arable bottom land , to be found in one body , of all the western country . The claim of Winters , for a million of arpents , and in a square form , lays 34 Letters on the Western Country .
... believe , the greatest quantity of arable bottom land , to be found in one body , of all the western country . The claim of Winters , for a million of arpents , and in a square form , lays 34 Letters on the Western Country .
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... believe would at this time repay the expense of cultivating it . I visited the town of America , * on my way from St , Louis hi- ther ; its site is fine , and I think the position an important one . It is about 4 miles above the mouth ...
... believe would at this time repay the expense of cultivating it . I visited the town of America , * on my way from St , Louis hi- ther ; its site is fine , and I think the position an important one . It is about 4 miles above the mouth ...
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Page 347 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 425 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 230 - Marred his repose, the influxes of sense, And his own being unalloyed by pain, Yet feebler and more feeble, calmly fed The stream of thought, till he lay breathing there At peace, and faintly smiling : his last sight Was the great moon, which o'er the western line Of the wide world her mighty horn suspended, With whose dun beams inwoven darkness seemed To mingle.
Page 178 - ... on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice — on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 410 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were...
Page 228 - Thou hast a home, Beautiful bird, thou voyagest to thine home, Where thy sweet mate will twine her downy neck With thine, and welcome thy return with eyes Bright in the lustre of their own fond joy. And what am I that I should linger here With voice far sweeter than thy dying notes, Spirit more vast than thine, frame more attuned To beauty, wasting these surpassing powers In the deaf air, to the blind earth, and heaven That echoes not my thoughts?
Page 180 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 230 - Of the vast meteor sunk, the Poet's blood, That ever beat in mystic sympathy With Nature's ebb and flow, grew feebler still. And, when two lessening points of light alone Gleamed through the darkness, the alternate gasp Of his faint respiration scarce did stir The stagnate night — till the minutest ray Was quenched, the pulse yet lingered in his heart. It paused — it fluttered. But, when heaven remained Utterly black, the murky shades involved An image silent, cold, and motionless, As their own...
Page 231 - How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful...
Page 96 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.