THE possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august... The Quarterly Review - Page 563edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 394 pages
...AMERICA. — CAPTAIN B. HALL. — NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STATES. — DEMOCRACY WITH SLAVERY. — QUAKERS. THE possible destiny of the United States of America,...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception. Why should we not wish to see it realized ? America... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 410 pages
...America — Captain B. Hall — Northern and Southern States — Democracy with Slavery — Quakers. THE possible destiny of the United States of America...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception. Why jhould we not wish to see it realized ? America... | |
| Periodicals - 1836 - 676 pages
...course has been prophetic of her destiny, must culminate over the promised land of freedom and of man. ' The possible destiny of the United States of America,...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, — is an august conception.'* It is a consummation almost too boundless for... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Economics - 1837 - 164 pages
...sprinkled a few log cabins. The conception of Coleridge may be realized sooner than he anticipated : ' The possible destiny of the United States of America,...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception — why should we not wish to see it realized?' On the... | |
| John Mason Peck - Illinois - 1837 - 352 pages
...conception of Coleridge may be realised sooner than he anticipated. The possible destiny of the U. States as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen — stretching...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception— why should we not wish to see it realized'? On the... | |
| United States - 1851 - 598 pages
...Coleridge, " the possible destiny of the United States of America, as a nation of a hundred million of freemen, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspearc and Milton, is an august conception," and after expressing an earnest desire for a solution... | |
| United States - 1851 - 702 pages
...reviews. ridge, " the possible destiny of the United States of America, as a nation of a hundred million of freemen, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception," and after expressing an earnest desire for a solution... | |
| Daniel S. Curtiss - Mississippi River Valley - 1852 - 382 pages
...sprinkled a few log cabins. The conception of Coleridge may be realized sooner than he anticipated ; ' The possible destiny of the United States of America,...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception — why should we not wish to see it realized ?' On... | |
| Daniel S. Curtiss - Mississippi River Valley - 1852 - 384 pages
...destiny of the United States of America, as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen—stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception—why should we not wish to see it realized ?' On the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 528 pages
...STATES OF AMERICA — CAPTAIN B. HALL NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STATES DEMOCRACY WITH SLAVERY QUAKERS. THE possible destiny of the United States of America...under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception. Why should we not wish to see it realized ? America... | |
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