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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Page 54
... kings , and by the obligations of treaties with various princes . In the language of one of our poets , he possessed a ... king , and in a short time the invading army retired from our frontier . On their retreat , Pericles passed over ...
... kings , and by the obligations of treaties with various princes . In the language of one of our poets , he possessed a ... king , and in a short time the invading army retired from our frontier . On their retreat , Pericles passed over ...
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... king , Rocks the poised avalanche ; beware ! A fluttered bird has lost his path in air ; Snow blinded , frighted at the dizzy height , He sinks upon the mountain'd mass ; his weight , His little weight has urged th ' uncertain scale ...
... king , Rocks the poised avalanche ; beware ! A fluttered bird has lost his path in air ; Snow blinded , frighted at the dizzy height , He sinks upon the mountain'd mass ; his weight , His little weight has urged th ' uncertain scale ...
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... kings , The. It is a chain , forged of the purest gold , Whose ductile links . far stretching , might enfold The banded nations ' vast fraternity , Within the gentle clasp of liberty , But that an universal alkahest , Over all metals ...
... kings , The. It is a chain , forged of the purest gold , Whose ductile links . far stretching , might enfold The banded nations ' vast fraternity , Within the gentle clasp of liberty , But that an universal alkahest , Over all metals ...
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From lowly cot to lofty towers of kings , The quick performance shifted on swift wing ; But all the scenes were hung in black or red ; O'er cot and tower a gloomy pall was spread Each heart of man a prison'd woe reveal'd ; Each blooming ...
From lowly cot to lofty towers of kings , The quick performance shifted on swift wing ; But all the scenes were hung in black or red ; O'er cot and tower a gloomy pall was spread Each heart of man a prison'd woe reveal'd ; Each blooming ...
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... King Canute ; for at his bidding , the waves of discord did roll back , which , to say the least , was very civil on their part . King Canute retired from before the sea of heads - and the rest 1849. ] 87 Gossip of the Month . The ...
... King Canute ; for at his bidding , the waves of discord did roll back , which , to say the least , was very civil on their part . King Canute retired from before the sea of heads - and the rest 1849. ] 87 Gossip of the Month . The ...
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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...