Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3Coolidge & Wiley, 1849 - American periodicals J.R. Lowell's review of Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is in v. 3, p. 40-51 (Dec. 1849). |
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... reason as logically as Mr. Underwood does , for well might he say- " I am disgusted , I am incensed at the conduct of those who are making such an ado about the murders and robberies of our peo- ple . Let them give vent to their ...
... reason as logically as Mr. Underwood does , for well might he say- " I am disgusted , I am incensed at the conduct of those who are making such an ado about the murders and robberies of our peo- ple . Let them give vent to their ...
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... reason , judging by this standard , a standard which , in spite of all acts to the contrary , takes the culprit's testimony in his own behalf to acquit him , -why we should not set down Senator Underwood as no advocate of Slavery . But ...
... reason , judging by this standard , a standard which , in spite of all acts to the contrary , takes the culprit's testimony in his own behalf to acquit him , -why we should not set down Senator Underwood as no advocate of Slavery . But ...
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... reason we mentioned . Whenever the slaveholders make up their minds to abolish slavery , — and we see not how they can be brought to this point but by the action of the government , they will adopt a much more simple plan than Senator ...
... reason we mentioned . Whenever the slaveholders make up their minds to abolish slavery , — and we see not how they can be brought to this point but by the action of the government , they will adopt a much more simple plan than Senator ...
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... reason to doubt , that , in this matter , they think hon- estly ; for with rare exceptions , they judge rather meanly of a government under which slavery is not allowed ; and a slave- holder , particularly if he is a large one , looks ...
... reason to doubt , that , in this matter , they think hon- estly ; for with rare exceptions , they judge rather meanly of a government under which slavery is not allowed ; and a slave- holder , particularly if he is a large one , looks ...
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... reasons of the Secretary , [ Mr. Taney . ] I am constrained to say , that he has entirely failed to make out his justification . " " The Secretary has entirely mistaken the case . " - Remarks of John C. Calhoun , in the Senate , on the ...
... reasons of the Secretary , [ Mr. Taney . ] I am constrained to say , that he has entirely failed to make out his justification . " " The Secretary has entirely mistaken the case . " - Remarks of John C. Calhoun , in the Senate , on the ...
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Page 227 - Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 153 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Page 215 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Page 253 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung.
Page 391 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Page 145 - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
Page 177 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 228 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Page 226 - For every stoic was a stoic ; but in Christendom where is the Christian ? There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk. No greater men are now than ever were. A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science, art, religion and philosophy of the nineteenth century...
Page 264 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States...