The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Band 28Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1851 |
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... Father , Son , and Holy Ghost . ' They displayed total ignorance of the meaning of this ceremony , and when asked to give their names , took the titles of Lord Rodney , Lord Nelson , or some other celebrated officer , and seemed ...
... Father , Son , and Holy Ghost . ' They displayed total ignorance of the meaning of this ceremony , and when asked to give their names , took the titles of Lord Rodney , Lord Nelson , or some other celebrated officer , and seemed ...
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... father's permission . I did so , and have found it more to my taste to endeavor , as I have been doing ever since , to put an end to these abuses , than to profit by them . " To the early detection of these abuses of his profession ...
... father's permission . I did so , and have found it more to my taste to endeavor , as I have been doing ever since , to put an end to these abuses , than to profit by them . " To the early detection of these abuses of his profession ...
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... father , " interrupted a stout gentleman , who , seated on the right hand side of the hearth , had not yet shared the conversation ; " it is not well known , because it has been so often misrepresented . It is with your famous mountain ...
... father , " interrupted a stout gentleman , who , seated on the right hand side of the hearth , had not yet shared the conversation ; " it is not well known , because it has been so often misrepresented . It is with your famous mountain ...
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... father ; the other , her be- trothed , is a tall , quiet hobbardehoy , with about as much excitability as a statue . These Swiss are all so . Arrived on the avalanche " - But I here endeavored to interpose . " Permit me , sir - it is ...
... father ; the other , her be- trothed , is a tall , quiet hobbardehoy , with about as much excitability as a statue . These Swiss are all so . Arrived on the avalanche " - But I here endeavored to interpose . " Permit me , sir - it is ...
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... father and the lover , entered the hall . These gentlemen seated themselves at table , and commenced their supper in good earnest . Their appetite shocked , and their apathy displeased me . The old gentleman seemed to me in too tranquil ...
... father and the lover , entered the hall . These gentlemen seated themselves at table , and commenced their supper in good earnest . Their appetite shocked , and their apathy displeased me . The old gentleman seemed to me in too tranquil ...
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Seite 16 - It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights, which must be surrendered, and those, which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states, as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
Seite 291 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Seite 291 - Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 16 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Seite 252 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Seite 11 - The credit of the State shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association or corporation.
Seite 17 - The General Assembly shall, at Its first session under the amended constitution, pass such laws as will effectually prohibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling In this State: and to effectually prevent the owners of slaves from bringing them into this State for the purpose of setting them free.
Seite 11 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay, and sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.
Seite 199 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite 168 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!