The United States Democratic Review, Volume 16J.& H.G. Langley, 1845 - United States Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... stand op- posed to the latter , indeed , for the very . reason that they , dispassionately and calmly , favor the former . There is many a Southerner , who , as a Southern- er , and if the question were left wholly to Southerners ...
... stand op- posed to the latter , indeed , for the very . reason that they , dispassionately and calmly , favor the former . There is many a Southerner , who , as a Southern- er , and if the question were left wholly to Southerners ...
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... stand - we can only deplore ! What has become of the Southern doctrine what , of the Northern Democratic posi- tion that the institution of slavery , whether a good or an evil , was a local and not a national , a municipal and not a ...
... stand - we can only deplore ! What has become of the Southern doctrine what , of the Northern Democratic posi- tion that the institution of slavery , whether a good or an evil , was a local and not a national , a municipal and not a ...
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... standing there , once on a time , had him present to him , and shook at the very thought . He had just come down from the wit- ness - stand , within , and was pausing at the porch , when he was of a sudden smitten on the shoulder , and ...
... standing there , once on a time , had him present to him , and shook at the very thought . He had just come down from the wit- ness - stand , within , and was pausing at the porch , when he was of a sudden smitten on the shoulder , and ...
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... stand in razed away , its little snug box - office crushed , and the heart and soul of it , in the shape of foot ... standing in an upper window wink- ed at Lankey , and uttered in a low voice : " All right ! " Lankey looked at him with ...
... stand in razed away , its little snug box - office crushed , and the heart and soul of it , in the shape of foot ... standing in an upper window wink- ed at Lankey , and uttered in a low voice : " All right ! " Lankey looked at him with ...
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... stands upon the ground of his manhood . The clear relation of brotherhood and equality is forgotten on both sides . The intrinsic dignity of labor is implicitly denied ; a dishonorable service has been demanded and rendered ; and they stand ...
... stands upon the ground of his manhood . The clear relation of brotherhood and equality is forgotten on both sides . The intrinsic dignity of labor is implicitly denied ; a dishonorable service has been demanded and rendered ; and they stand ...
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Page 188 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 185 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 523 - ... where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 345 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 521 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 607 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Page 188 - These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness.
Page 87 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 357 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 374 - ... threw out her hand to warn him back. Was it his mother? But he had no power to retreat one step, nor to resist, even in thought, when the minister and good old Deacon Gookin seized his arms and led him to the blazing rock. Thither came also the slender form of a veiled female, led between Goody...