The United States Democratic Review, Volume 28J.& H.G. Langley, 1851 - 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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... remained some weeks - sailed thence for Con- stantinople , and after tarrying there several months , set off to his brother's , reaching his house early in 1786 , only to find that he was absent from home on a distant military ...
... remained some weeks - sailed thence for Con- stantinople , and after tarrying there several months , set off to his brother's , reaching his house early in 1786 , only to find that he was absent from home on a distant military ...
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... remained alone , the stout gentleman and I , each forming his conjectures as to what was passing below , without thinking any longer of epitaphs . At the end of a few moments , a gentleman entered the hall . This gentleman was a tourist ...
... remained alone , the stout gentleman and I , each forming his conjectures as to what was passing below , without thinking any longer of epitaphs . At the end of a few moments , a gentleman entered the hall . This gentleman was a tourist ...
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thanking them for the kind reception I had met with . I remained at Aoste , experiencing , in the midst of the crowd around me , a bitter feeling of solitude , and heart - sick melancholy , which I went to nourish in the very spot where ...
thanking them for the kind reception I had met with . I remained at Aoste , experiencing , in the midst of the crowd around me , a bitter feeling of solitude , and heart - sick melancholy , which I went to nourish in the very spot where ...
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... remained the same , or were become even more hostile in their appearance . This was a reason against weakening our military force at the present moment . Besides which , there was to be con- sidered the peculiar situation of our ...
... remained the same , or were become even more hostile in their appearance . This was a reason against weakening our military force at the present moment . Besides which , there was to be con- sidered the peculiar situation of our ...
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... remained to be considered how her injuries could be avenged , then pos- sibly the plunder committed upon her would be entitled to weight in the commercial polity of the United States . But , even then , it would be little worthy of a ...
... remained to be considered how her injuries could be avenged , then pos- sibly the plunder committed upon her would be entitled to weight in the commercial polity of the United States . But , even then , it would be little worthy of a ...
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Page 474 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 168 - Nevermore." " Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend !" I shrieked, upstarting— "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken • Leave my loneliness unbroken ¡—quit the bust above my door ! • Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door !" Quoth the raven,
Page 291 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 167 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 356 - ... There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 474 - Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 16 - It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights, which must be surrendered, and those, which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states, as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
Page 16 - That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every State, is not, perhaps, to be expected; but each will doubtless consider that, had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others...
Page 474 - It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...
Page 169 - The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere, It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir — It was down by the dank tarn of Auber In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.