The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 33Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith E. Littell & T. Holden, 1838 - American periodicals |
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... respect for the scope of Lord John Russell's mind , we are convinced that he could not but have seen the imperfection , nay , the ab- surdity , of this mode of treating the subject ; but his eva- sion of the real question was another ...
... respect for the scope of Lord John Russell's mind , we are convinced that he could not but have seen the imperfection , nay , the ab- surdity , of this mode of treating the subject ; but his eva- sion of the real question was another ...
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... respect for the scope of must , as soon as it thinks itself strong enough to walk Lord John Russell's mind , we are convinced that he alone , throw off the trammels of the mother country : could not but have seen the imperfection , nay ...
... respect for the scope of must , as soon as it thinks itself strong enough to walk Lord John Russell's mind , we are convinced that he alone , throw off the trammels of the mother country : could not but have seen the imperfection , nay ...
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... respect fo wall baddon tissell's mind , we are e ave seen the imperfeets they allege that Canada best printer this mode of treating the so la real question was another system of shift and waivertage Lained Sutes , affered the ...
... respect fo wall baddon tissell's mind , we are e ave seen the imperfeets they allege that Canada best printer this mode of treating the so la real question was another system of shift and waivertage Lained Sutes , affered the ...
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... respect a fit appointment , if the Commis- Commons a bill for repealing the act of 1831 , which sion of Inquiry had been a fit proceeding ; nay , if he had granted the entire control of the Colonial revenues | had been sent out alone as ...
... respect a fit appointment , if the Commis- Commons a bill for repealing the act of 1831 , which sion of Inquiry had been a fit proceeding ; nay , if he had granted the entire control of the Colonial revenues | had been sent out alone as ...
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... respect to the Queen , and forg party feelings in his duty to his country . The heig and grandeur of his Grace's station that night warmed even the sullen mediocrity of Lord Lansdowne , wi said that- after what had fallen in such candid ...
... respect to the Queen , and forg party feelings in his duty to his country . The heig and grandeur of his Grace's station that night warmed even the sullen mediocrity of Lord Lansdowne , wi said that- after what had fallen in such candid ...
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Page 25 - Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the Present, I cling to the Past; When the eye is suffused with regretful tears, And shadows of things that have long
Page 26 - With the death-fraught firelock in my hand— The only law of the Desert Land! Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: Away—away in the Wilderness vast, Where the White Man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered
Page 74 - When geese and pullen are seduc'd, And sows of sucking pigs are chous'd. When cattle feel indisposition, And need th' opinion of physician ; When murrain reigns in hogs or sheep, And chickens languish of the pip ; When yeast and outward means do fail, And have no power to work on ale ; When butter does refuse
Page 280 - conflict between inclination and duty is over, and virtue and self-indulgence are the same. Some decline of his intellectual powers was perceptible to the friends of his earlier and more active days; but 'To things immortal time can do no wrong. And that which never is to die, for ever must be
Page 35 - sonorous voice the formula of Macbeth— 'Fill full ! I drink to the general joy of the whole table " This was followed by ' the King, God bless him ." and second came, ' Gentlemen, there is another toast which never has been nor shall be omitted in this house
Page 43 - been not long since, I think my heart will break. Lonely, aged, deprived of my family, all but poor Anne ; an impoverished, an embarrassed man, deprived of the sharer of my thoughts and counsels, who could always talk down my sense of the calamitous apprehensions which break the heart that must bear them alone.
Page 279 - in the name of God, and in the power of his might, till even American slavery, the vilest that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it. That He who has guided you from your youth up, may continue to strengthen you in this and all things, is the prayer of, dear sir, your affectionate servant, •February 24, 1791. 'My dear Sir,
Page 40 - Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building up or elevating, in any shape ! The sick heart will find no healing here, the darkly strugg-ling heart no guidance : the Heroic that is in all men no divine awakening voice. We say, therefore, that they do not found themselves on deep interests,
Page 75 - reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter. For a long time after he was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to
Page 76 - humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none. Oliver cried lustily. If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of churchwardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder* CHAPTER THE SECOND Treats of Oliver