American Quarterly Review, Volum 3Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... living at free quarters upon the country , felling woods without the owners ' con- sent , and commanding labour with little or no recompense . Purveyance was a very ancient topic of remonstrance ; but both the inadequate revenues of the ...
... living at free quarters upon the country , felling woods without the owners ' con- sent , and commanding labour with little or no recompense . Purveyance was a very ancient topic of remonstrance ; but both the inadequate revenues of the ...
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... living mortal . I once determined that it should die with me ; and had I not met with you , it certainly should . But from our first acquaintance , my heart has been strongly attracted towards you ; and as soon as I found you pos ...
... living mortal . I once determined that it should die with me ; and had I not met with you , it certainly should . But from our first acquaintance , my heart has been strongly attracted towards you ; and as soon as I found you pos ...
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... living pyramid came to the ground together . Many were killed - some were wounded and bruised . Polenap himself , by lighting on his men , who served him as cushions , barely escaped with life . But he received a fracture in the upper ...
... living pyramid came to the ground together . Many were killed - some were wounded and bruised . Polenap himself , by lighting on his men , who served him as cushions , barely escaped with life . But he received a fracture in the upper ...
Side 121
... living trump of hell , Sounding to call the damn'd away , To join the host that fell . It rang along the vaulted sky : the shore Jarr'd hard , as when the thronging surges roar . " It rang in ears that knew the sound : And hot , flush'd ...
... living trump of hell , Sounding to call the damn'd away , To join the host that fell . It rang along the vaulted sky : the shore Jarr'd hard , as when the thronging surges roar . " It rang in ears that knew the sound : And hot , flush'd ...
Side 122
... living things . O ! ' tis a proud and gallant show Of bright and broad - spread wings Flinging a glory round them , as they keep Their course right onward through the unsounded deep . " And where the far - off sand - bars lift Their ...
... living things . O ! ' tis a proud and gallant show Of bright and broad - spread wings Flinging a glory round them , as they keep Their course right onward through the unsounded deep . " And where the far - off sand - bars lift Their ...
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Side 324 - Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands : so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Side 324 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Side 162 - To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction, the sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, under a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them ; and attended by the dignitaries of their court and the principal nobility of Castile...
Side 431 - There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington," writes Adams to a friend, "a gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, his family and friends, sacrificing his ease and hazarding all in the cause of his country. His views are noble and disinterested. He declared, when he accepted the mighty trust, that he would lay before us an exact account of his expenses and not accept a shilling of pay.
Side 161 - As he drew near the place, many of the more youthful courtiers, and hidalgos of gallant bearing, together with a vast concourse of the populace, came forth to meet and welcome him. His entrance into this noble city has been compared to one of those triumphs which the Romans were accustomed to decree to conquerors.
Side 109 - Tis in the gentle moonlight ; 'Tis floating midst Day's setting glories ; Night, Wrapped in her sable robe, with silent step Comes to our bed, and breathes it in our ears : Night, and the dawn, bright day, and thoughtful eve, All time, all bounds, the limitless expanse, As one vast mystic instrument, are touched By an unseen, living Hand, and conscious chords Quiver with joy in this great jubilee.
Side 170 - ... reveries of past ages, the indications of an unknown world ; as soothsayers were said to read predictions in the stars, and to foretell events from the visions of the night. " His soul," observes a Spanish writer, " was superior to the age in which he lived.
Side 52 - Or if neither of these ways will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic.
Side 88 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Side 161 - ... the remarkable man by whom it had been discovered. There was a sublimity in this event that mingled a solemn feeling with the public joy. It was looked upon as a vast and signal dispensation of Providence, in reward for the piety of the monarchs ; and the majestic and venerable appearance of the discoverer, so different from the youth and buoyancy generally expected from roving enterprise, seemed in harmony with the grandeur and dignity of his achievement.