North-American Review and Miscellaneous JournalUniversity of Northern Iowa, 1853 |
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... idea that the people and the government are the same thing , there can be no great risk in charging it upon them ; particularly if they are powerful enough to put it in vogue , and if their influence is known to be excited in this ...
... idea that the people and the government are the same thing , there can be no great risk in charging it upon them ; particularly if they are powerful enough to put it in vogue , and if their influence is known to be excited in this ...
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... idea of merit or honor is banished from such an arrangement ; and the rapid depreciation of our politics , under its influence , painfully shows that those who possess the one , or are influenced by the other , have been in haste to ...
... idea of merit or honor is banished from such an arrangement ; and the rapid depreciation of our politics , under its influence , painfully shows that those who possess the one , or are influenced by the other , have been in haste to ...
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... idea of his work , namely , that enlightened skepticism , so far from cherish- ing infidelity , naturally resolves itself into Christian faith , and that the charge of excessive credulity rests emphatically on those who rejoice to term ...
... idea of his work , namely , that enlightened skepticism , so far from cherish- ing infidelity , naturally resolves itself into Christian faith , and that the charge of excessive credulity rests emphatically on those who rejoice to term ...
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... idea of a book - revelation . Yet their own conduct is an explicit denial of this postulate . They profess to have received from the Almighty superior measures of light on the great themes of religion and morality ; and with the most ...
... idea of a book - revelation . Yet their own conduct is an explicit denial of this postulate . They profess to have received from the Almighty superior measures of light on the great themes of religion and morality ; and with the most ...
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... idea ; and could I harbour it an instant , indeed , my dear General , it would make me miserable . I well see you never will go to France . The inexpressi- ble pleasure of embracing you in my own house , of welcoming you in a family ...
... idea ; and could I harbour it an instant , indeed , my dear General , it would make me miserable . I well see you never will go to France . The inexpressi- ble pleasure of embracing you in my own house , of welcoming you in a family ...
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Seite 411 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign.
Seite 280 - ... riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? or is it rather a country that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses ? Have you not more than once suggested your wishes, and made known your wants, to congress — wants and wishes which gratitude and policy should have anticipated rather than evaded ? And have you not lately, in the meek language of entreating...
Seite 338 - I entreat you to consider, that when you choose magistrates, you take them from among yourselves, men subject to like passions as you are. Therefore when you see infirmities in us, you should reflect upon your own, and that would make you bear the more with us, and not be severe censurers of the failings of your magistrates, when you have continual experience of the like infirmities in yourselves and others.
Seite 533 - Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. Ninth Edition. Woodcuts. 8vo. 18s. - Manual of Elementary Geology ; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants illustrated by its Geological Monuments.
Seite 21 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Seite 368 - No man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name shall be stained ; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any...
Seite 420 - Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
Seite 23 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny front with shells — Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her.
Seite 280 - Tell them that though you were the first, and would wish to be the last, to encounter danger, though despair itself can never drive you into dishonor, it may drive you from the field; that the wound, often irritated and never healed, may at length become incurable; and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress...
Seite 194 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.