The United States Democratic Review, Volume 24J.& H.G. Langley, 1849 - 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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... march to national supremacy . * Official Reports to Congress - Memorial of the citizens of California to Congress . The Mexican war , which was supposed to be the THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW JANUARY, 1849 No CXXVIL TABLE OF CONTENTS ART ΡΔΟΒ ...
... march to national supremacy . * Official Reports to Congress - Memorial of the citizens of California to Congress . The Mexican war , which was supposed to be the THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW JANUARY, 1849 No CXXVIL TABLE OF CONTENTS ART ΡΔΟΒ ...
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... March 23d , 1848 : — " There are other things that seem to affect one's consciousness of being a reasonable man , and evince a disposition to impose on his common sense . And of this class of topics or pretensions I have never heard of ...
... March 23d , 1848 : — " There are other things that seem to affect one's consciousness of being a reasonable man , and evince a disposition to impose on his common sense . And of this class of topics or pretensions I have never heard of ...
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... March , on account of the rains , but little digging is done . By the time the working season commences 100,000 persons will probably be on the spot from the Sandwich Islands and the Atlantic states , as well as from Oregon and all the ...
... March , on account of the rains , but little digging is done . By the time the working season commences 100,000 persons will probably be on the spot from the Sandwich Islands and the Atlantic states , as well as from Oregon and all the ...
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... March 31 , 1847 , which orders the investment of £ 4,600,000 in the English and French funds , the " bullion fund " existing in St. Petersburgh is stated to amount to 114,000,000 of rubles , or nearly £ 20,000,000 sterling . " The whole ...
... March 31 , 1847 , which orders the investment of £ 4,600,000 in the English and French funds , the " bullion fund " existing in St. Petersburgh is stated to amount to 114,000,000 of rubles , or nearly £ 20,000,000 sterling . " The whole ...
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... March 1st , 1797 , he veteod an amendment to an act , entitled " an act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States . " His objections were not based on the unconstitutionality , but on the injus- tice and ...
... March 1st , 1797 , he veteod an amendment to an act , entitled " an act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States . " His objections were not based on the unconstitutionality , but on the injus- tice and ...
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Page 189 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 198 - ... engage mutually not to grant any particular favor to other nations in respect of commerce and navigation' which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation if the concession was conditional.
Page 48 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 358 - I was not surprised that the Arabs had been amazed and terrified at this apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well have belonged to one of those fearful beings which are pictured in the traditions of the country, as appearing to mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below.
Page 16 - If even no propensity had ever discovered itself in the legislative body to invade the rights of the Executive, the rules of just reasoning and theoretic propriety would of themselves teach us, that the one ought not to be left to the mercy of the other, but ought to possess a constitutional and effectual power of selfdefence.
Page 359 - It was some time before the sheikh could be prevailed upon to descend into the pit, and convince himself that the image he saw was of stone. " This is not the work of men's hands...
Page 216 - If he was wanted at Lima, he was on the Atlantic in the next 'fleet. If he was wanted at Bagdad, he was toiling through the desert with the next caravan. If his ministry was needed in some country where his life was more insecure than that of a wolf, where it was a crime to...
Page 549 - Lord 1848, or obtained a certificate of naturalization before any court of record in this State prior to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1870, or who shall be a male citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote at such election.
Page 358 - Awad advanced and asked for a present to celebrate the occasion, the Arabs withdrew the screen they had hastily constructed, and disclosed an enormous human head sculptured in full out of the alabaster of the country. They had uncovered the upper part of a figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth.
Page 216 - When, in our own time, a new and terrible pestilence passed round the globe, when, in some great cities, fear had dissolved all the ties which hold society together, when the secular clergy had...