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... position of the New Administration , 236 ; Baltimore Convention , ib .; The war spirit , 236 ; True reason of rejecting the offer of Arbitration , 238 . Adventures on the Frontier of Texas and Mexico , No. V. ( Chas . Winterfield , ) 17 ...
... position of the New Administration , 236 ; Baltimore Convention , ib .; The war spirit , 236 ; True reason of rejecting the offer of Arbitration , 238 . Adventures on the Frontier of Texas and Mexico , No. V. ( Chas . Winterfield , ) 17 ...
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... position , their rela- taions to each other , to Europe and the United States , and thus be enabled to ap- preciate the value of an American system of nations - if the phrase may be al- lowed - as contradistinguished from the European ...
... position , their rela- taions to each other , to Europe and the United States , and thus be enabled to ap- preciate the value of an American system of nations - if the phrase may be al- lowed - as contradistinguished from the European ...
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... position we had assumed with regard to Cuba and Porto Rico in the face of the world , the Secretary of State expressed the expecta- tion and desire , that at least until the effect of this friendly interposition could be ascertained ...
... position we had assumed with regard to Cuba and Porto Rico in the face of the world , the Secretary of State expressed the expecta- tion and desire , that at least until the effect of this friendly interposition could be ascertained ...
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... position , lies on those waters into which the great internal communications of the United States are discharged . With these and with the other new States we have high- ly important commercial connections , and it is therefore matter ...
... position , lies on those waters into which the great internal communications of the United States are discharged . With these and with the other new States we have high- ly important commercial connections , and it is therefore matter ...
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... position - claiming to speak in the name of country , and seeking to shelter itself under the mantle of Washington - was manifested . We select , by reason of his present eminence - then as little antici- pated as now it is likely to be ...
... position - claiming to speak in the name of country , and seeking to shelter itself under the mantle of Washington - was manifested . We select , by reason of his present eminence - then as little antici- pated as now it is likely to be ...
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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.