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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... appearance in the wilds of California , in regions where scarcely an abode or hut was ever before erected , of hundreds of comfortable houses raised as if by magic , and swarming with industrious men , who ransack every ravine ...
... appearance in the wilds of California , in regions where scarcely an abode or hut was ever before erected , of hundreds of comfortable houses raised as if by magic , and swarming with industrious men , who ransack every ravine ...
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... appeared , that although the vein mines con- tinued rich , they were , to some extent , abandoned . The companies had been dissolved , the capital lost , the negroes withdrawn to cotton plantations , and the mines were worked only by ...
... appeared , that although the vein mines con- tinued rich , they were , to some extent , abandoned . The companies had been dissolved , the capital lost , the negroes withdrawn to cotton plantations , and the mines were worked only by ...
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... appearance of a wanton abuse of the power in ques- tion ; and it is rather a matter of surprise that it has been exercised so seldom . But the vetoes which have occasioned the outcry against it have been those which prevented the ...
... appearance of a wanton abuse of the power in ques- tion ; and it is rather a matter of surprise that it has been exercised so seldom . But the vetoes which have occasioned the outcry against it have been those which prevented the ...
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... appearance he be suspended on a lamp - post . A similar delusion would have occupied the minds of the American people by reason of the harangues of selfish partisans , if it had not been prevented by their superior intelligence . The ...
... appearance he be suspended on a lamp - post . A similar delusion would have occupied the minds of the American people by reason of the harangues of selfish partisans , if it had not been prevented by their superior intelligence . The ...
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... most intricate facts ; and the more distant the knowledge - the more disconnected and removed from the power of the human body , the more sublime and expansive has it appeared , and more 1849. ] 27 The Absolute Equality of Mind .
... most intricate facts ; and the more distant the knowledge - the more disconnected and removed from the power of the human body , the more sublime and expansive has it appeared , and more 1849. ] 27 The Absolute Equality of Mind .
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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...