The American Whig Review, Volume 3Wiley and Putnam, 1846 - Periodicals |
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... fact ; and Spain was left to her own time and resources to subjugate , if she could , or recognize as independent when she would , her former colonies . The result of the conflict , when it once became apparent that Spain would not ...
... fact ; and Spain was left to her own time and resources to subjugate , if she could , or recognize as independent when she would , her former colonies . The result of the conflict , when it once became apparent that Spain would not ...
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... fact , that in the letters of the Colombian minister to the Secretary of State , the utmost deference is manifested for the greater experience of the United States , and the expectation is expressed that they will avail themselves of ...
... fact , that in the letters of the Colombian minister to the Secretary of State , the utmost deference is manifested for the greater experience of the United States , and the expectation is expressed that they will avail themselves of ...
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... fact , that with our Norman- Saxon blood , we inherit the passion for extended dominion , which is the vice of that blood ; but it is not in this passion , nor even in the consequent earnest desire on our part to avoid - in relation ...
... fact , that with our Norman- Saxon blood , we inherit the passion for extended dominion , which is the vice of that blood ; but it is not in this passion , nor even in the consequent earnest desire on our part to avoid - in relation ...
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... fact that Bill's eyes , or the eyes of any other man of great firmness , should have ex- erted this absolute power over a mad- man - for that such a power had long been known to exist and been used by occasional individuals in the ...
... fact that Bill's eyes , or the eyes of any other man of great firmness , should have ex- erted this absolute power over a mad- man - for that such a power had long been known to exist and been used by occasional individuals in the ...
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... fact personages . The idea of setting fire to the houses of three or four hundred unoffending human beings , that the insane hate of three or four men might be gratified with the prospect of any amount of indiscriminate slaughter was ...
... fact personages . The idea of setting fire to the houses of three or four hundred unoffending human beings , that the insane hate of three or four men might be gratified with the prospect of any amount of indiscriminate slaughter was ...
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Page 119 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 122 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 164 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 118 - Sweet, rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.
Page 124 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 186 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Page 398 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 186 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 82 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 122 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.