Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 73William Blackwood, 1853 - England |
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... whole free population of the slave states is actu- ally decreasing instead of increasing , as we are in the habit of believing to be the case all over the Union . Thus , in the two censuses of 1840 and 1850 , the total free population ...
... whole free population of the slave states is actu- ally decreasing instead of increasing , as we are in the habit of believing to be the case all over the Union . Thus , in the two censuses of 1840 and 1850 , the total free population ...
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... whole by Virginian legis- lators . Another simple calculation will illustrate this . The average annual increase of the slave popula- tion during the last ten years has been nearly 3 per cent ( correctly , 2.94 per cent ) in the whole ...
... whole by Virginian legis- lators . Another simple calculation will illustrate this . The average annual increase of the slave popula- tion during the last ten years has been nearly 3 per cent ( correctly , 2.94 per cent ) in the whole ...
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... whole family ! How pleased Mrs Richard Avenel will be ! Why the devil did not I know it before ? And poor - dear - dear Nora . Ah that she were living ! " Dick's voice trembled . " Her name will be righted ; and I will explain why it ...
... whole family ! How pleased Mrs Richard Avenel will be ! Why the devil did not I know it before ? And poor - dear - dear Nora . Ah that she were living ! " Dick's voice trembled . " Her name will be righted ; and I will explain why it ...
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... whole , the most vigo- rous and lofty writers ; but Leonard did not belong to this class . Sweet- ness and serenity were the main characteristics of his genius ; and these were deepened by his profound sense of his domestic happiness ...
... whole , the most vigo- rous and lofty writers ; but Leonard did not belong to this class . Sweet- ness and serenity were the main characteristics of his genius ; and these were deepened by his profound sense of his domestic happiness ...
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... whole man was not only a poet , but , as it were , a poem - a living idyl , calling into pastoral music every reed ... whole ambition as writer ; his whole existence in the fair Ideal seems to have been a profitless dream , and the ...
... whole man was not only a poet , but , as it were , a poem - a living idyl , calling into pastoral music every reed ... whole ambition as writer ; his whole existence in the fair Ideal seems to have been a profitless dream , and the ...
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Page 137 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 402 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 409 - ... to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me.
Page 393 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 10 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
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Page 365 - I told my opponents the only man who could "put me down" was myself, and I trusted I should do nothing to bring about that result. If thrust out of my own pulpit, I made up my mind to lecture from city to city, from town to town, from village to village, nay...
Page 109 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages to Town : And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay.) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our Hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; ' , Who, by means of quick proofs— no revises— long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches.
Page 109 - And beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him; Who, by means of quick proofs — no revises — long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — tt approaches.