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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... uncon- stitutional Executive promise , to plunge directly into war with Mexico , if she should execute her threat of immediate invasion of Texas ! -and this while Congress , the sole war - making author- ity under the Constitution , is ...
... uncon- stitutional Executive promise , to plunge directly into war with Mexico , if she should execute her threat of immediate invasion of Texas ! -and this while Congress , the sole war - making author- ity under the Constitution , is ...
Page 166
... uncon- scious daughter with its contents . But the immense salt - cellar , which had been an heirloom in the Prince's family , and always adorned his table , was instantly recognized by everybody . Such peals of laughter arose from pit ...
... uncon- scious daughter with its contents . But the immense salt - cellar , which had been an heirloom in the Prince's family , and always adorned his table , was instantly recognized by everybody . Such peals of laughter arose from pit ...
Page 285
... uncon- ciliating in friendship and enmity , and altogether better fitted to serve than to please his high - spirited and unmanage- able constituents . In this lies the great contrast between Burnet and his succes- sor . Everybody admits ...
... uncon- ciliating in friendship and enmity , and altogether better fitted to serve than to please his high - spirited and unmanage- able constituents . In this lies the great contrast between Burnet and his succes- sor . Everybody admits ...
Page 338
... uncon- scionable circumference . Would that he were leaner ; for , though he did me the honor to present his hand , yet it was so puffed out with alien substance , that I could not feel as if I had touched the hand that wrote Childe ...
... uncon- scionable circumference . Would that he were leaner ; for , though he did me the honor to present his hand , yet it was so puffed out with alien substance , that I could not feel as if I had touched the hand that wrote Childe ...
Page 399
... uncon- querable endurance , steady courage , and clear and comprehensive judgment . In this he was unlike almost any other man in history . Ney had not this com- bination , and we would like to have those who criticise his character ...
... uncon- querable endurance , steady courage , and clear and comprehensive judgment . In this he was unlike almost any other man in history . Ney had not this com- bination , and we would like to have those who criticise his character ...
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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...