The Southern Review, Volume 9, Issues 18-20Bledsoe and Herrick, 1871 |
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... favor extended to the enterprise by the press and people of the South, it has had a success far beyond our most sanguine hopes. From the orig; inal subscription list, which was very small, (and since muc reduced by many withdrawals,) We ...
... favor extended to the enterprise by the press and people of the South, it has had a success far beyond our most sanguine hopes. From the orig; inal subscription list, which was very small, (and since muc reduced by many withdrawals,) We ...
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... favors in his power upon them. Let us also suppose, that he should at the same time declare that if the event did not happen, he would cast them into prison, bind them in chains, and inflict the greatest imaginable tortures upon them ...
... favors in his power upon them. Let us also suppose, that he should at the same time declare that if the event did not happen, he would cast them into prison, bind them in chains, and inflict the greatest imaginable tortures upon them ...
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... favor the Latin at the expense of the Saxon elements of our language, which social and educational causes have long tended to foster in the mother country, has with us received an additional impulse from the great admixture of ...
... favor the Latin at the expense of the Saxon elements of our language, which social and educational causes have long tended to foster in the mother country, has with us received an additional impulse from the great admixture of ...
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... favor ily instead of ness in the terminations of abstract nouns; and eschew the old Saxon comparison of adjectives for the ineffective prefixes more and most. The immediate effect of all this is bad enough, in that it fosters a disas ...
... favor ily instead of ness in the terminations of abstract nouns; and eschew the old Saxon comparison of adjectives for the ineffective prefixes more and most. The immediate effect of all this is bad enough, in that it fosters a disas ...
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... favor of the former. The verdict might, of course, be different, were we to abandon the philosophical standpoint, and look upon all the bloodshed, all the anarchy, carnage, and even the injury to civilization, as a price which we can ...
... favor of the former. The verdict might, of course, be different, were we to abandon the philosophical standpoint, and look upon all the bloodshed, all the anarchy, carnage, and even the injury to civilization, as a price which we can ...
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Page 520 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 805 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 985 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 812 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : But the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 625 - HOW sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 318 - I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
Page 520 - to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to 44 see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth...
Page 526 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 519 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Page 932 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.