The American Whig Review, Volumes 15-16G. H. Colton, 1852 |
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... election of the negro slave to an equality of position with our- selves , it will be a final period not so cer ... election for himself . Every step taken by this man since his election has been a movement toward im- perial power . It ...
... election of the negro slave to an equality of position with our- selves , it will be a final period not so cer ... election for himself . Every step taken by this man since his election has been a movement toward im- perial power . It ...
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... election are materially brightening , and his parti- sans have already met with a triumph in the Assembly . After ... elections only two years , instead of three , as it still is in the general electoral law . This is certainly a ...
... election are materially brightening , and his parti- sans have already met with a triumph in the Assembly . After ... elections only two years , instead of three , as it still is in the general electoral law . This is certainly a ...
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... ELECTIONS - Messrs . Disney , Williams , Ham- ilton , Schermerhorn , Caskie , Ewing , Davis , ( Mass . , ) and Gamble . ON WAYS AND MEANS - Messrs . Houston , Jones , ( Tenn . , ) Stanly , Hibbard , Brooks , Jones , ( Penn ...
... ELECTIONS - Messrs . Disney , Williams , Ham- ilton , Schermerhorn , Caskie , Ewing , Davis , ( Mass . , ) and Gamble . ON WAYS AND MEANS - Messrs . Houston , Jones , ( Tenn . , ) Stanly , Hibbard , Brooks , Jones , ( Penn ...
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... election of Mr. Monroe . " It is our opinion that the nomination would not have resulted in the election of Crawford ; for the reason his friends have been met at every corner with these 1852 . 95 Life and Times of William H. Crawford .
... election of Mr. Monroe . " It is our opinion that the nomination would not have resulted in the election of Crawford ; for the reason his friends have been met at every corner with these 1852 . 95 Life and Times of William H. Crawford .
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... election " of the nominee . Eight years later than this , Crawford did receive the caucus nomination for President , and yet he barely obtained a sufficiency of electoral votes to find his way to the House of Repre- sentatives with ...
... election " of the nominee . Eight years later than this , Crawford did receive the caucus nomination for President , and yet he barely obtained a sufficiency of electoral votes to find his way to the House of Repre- sentatives with ...
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Page 420 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peal'd the banner-cry of hell! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear: For life ! for life ! their flight they ply— And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry, And plaids and bonnets waving high, And broad-swords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in the rear. Onward they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued; Before that tide...
Page 18 - Hear him but reason in divinity And, all-admiring, with an inward wish, You would desire the King were made a prelate. Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all in all his study. List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter...
Page 3 - ... advantages, and with expectation awakened by the tone which preceded it, it has been discharged, and has spent its force. It may become me to say no more of its effect than that, if nobody is found, after all, either killed or wounded...
Page 122 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 420 - Bearing before them in their course The relics of the archer force, Like wave with crest of sparkling foam, Right onward did Clan-Alpine come. Above the tide each broadsword bright Was brandishing like beam of light. Each targe was dark below ; And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe.
Page 420 - I see,' he cried, their column shake. Now, gallants ! for your ladies' sake, Upon them with the lance ! ' The horsemen dashed among the rout As deer break through the broom; Their steeds are stout, their swords are out» They soon make lightsome room.
Page 191 - ... of a great part of its rude produce, a very small part of the manufactured produce of other countries. The one exports what can subsist and accommodate but a very few, and imports the subsistence and accommodation of a great number. The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. The inhabitants of the one must always enjoy a much greater quantity of subsistence than what their own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation, could...
Page 419 - OBSERVE, when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky ; And then the dewy cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives. The vapours, which at evening weep, Are beverage to the swelling deep ; And when the rosy sun appears, He drinks the ocean's misty tears. The moon too quaffs her paly stream Of lustre from the solar beam.
Page 191 - ... the revenue of a trading and manufacturing country must, other things being equal, always be much greater than that of one without trade or manufactures. By means of trade and manufactures, a greater quantity of subsistence can be annually imported into a particular country than what its own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation could afford.
Page 121 - That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.