The American Whig Review, Volumer 9-15Wiley and Putnam, 1852 |
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... become a powerful member of the grand fraternity . Acting upon this thought , he makes the tour of the world , seeking every where the aid of civilized nations , and calling upon them to recognize and stand by each other . Thus do we ...
... become a powerful member of the grand fraternity . Acting upon this thought , he makes the tour of the world , seeking every where the aid of civilized nations , and calling upon them to recognize and stand by each other . Thus do we ...
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... become what it has been , the bulwark of European civiliza- tion against Asiatic despotism ; the van- guard of freedom against the power of the East , which advances out of Siberia and the Ukraine to overwhelm Europe . Russia is to ...
... become what it has been , the bulwark of European civiliza- tion against Asiatic despotism ; the van- guard of freedom against the power of the East , which advances out of Siberia and the Ukraine to overwhelm Europe . Russia is to ...
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... become a dead letter . While the doctrine of a balance of power arises by necessity among despotic govern ments , where the predominance of one en- dangers the existence of all , that of non - in- tervention , or of state rights , as ...
... become a dead letter . While the doctrine of a balance of power arises by necessity among despotic govern ments , where the predominance of one en- dangers the existence of all , that of non - in- tervention , or of state rights , as ...
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... become self - reliant , and hopeful of favor from the world . If they were obliged to devote years to a single piece , whose success should determine their reputation for ever , we can imagine the diffidence , the frequent heart ...
... become self - reliant , and hopeful of favor from the world . If they were obliged to devote years to a single piece , whose success should determine their reputation for ever , we can imagine the diffidence , the frequent heart ...
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... become , in a most eminent degree , a study for poets ; and his many excellences and defects , his graces and his subtleties , his niceties and his obscurities- somewhat changed in form , it is true , by the peculiarities of each mind ...
... become , in a most eminent degree , a study for poets ; and his many excellences and defects , his graces and his subtleties , his niceties and his obscurities- somewhat changed in form , it is true , by the peculiarities of each mind ...
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Side 122 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Side 351 - I believe I fancied her too much interested in personal history ; and her talk was a comedy in which dramatic justice was done to everybody's foibles. I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism...
Side 18 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Side 123 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Side 20 - He remembered perhaps enough of his school-boy learning to put the Hig, hag, hog, into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans ; and might pick up in the writers of the time, or the course of his conversation, a familiar phrase or two of French or Italian : but his studies were most demonstratively confined to nature and his own language.
Side 189 - ... and accommodation of a great number. The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. The inhabitants of the one must always enjoy a much greater quantity of subsistence than what their own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation, could afford. The inhabitants of the other must always enjoy a much smaller quantity.
Side 188 - Sir : It is a remarkable fact in the history of mankind, that while, through all the past, honors were bestowed upon glory, and glory was attached only to success, the legislative authorities of this great republic •bestow...
Side 460 - I send you this letter by an envoy of my own appointment, an officer of high rank in his country, who is no missionary of religion. He goes by my command, to bear to you my greeting and good wishes, and to promote friendship and commerce between the two countries.
Side 279 - You have set us the example ; you have quit your own to stand on foreign ground ; you have abandoned the policy you professed in the day of your weakness, to interfere in the affairs of the people upon this continent, in behalf of those principles, the supremacy of which you say is necessary to your prosperity, to your existence. We, in our...
Side 189 - A small quantity of manufactured produce purchases a great quantity of rude produce. A trading and manufacturing country, therefore, naturally purchases with a small part of its manufactured produce a great part of the rude produce of other countries...