The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 23Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1848 - United States |
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... feeling then , together with the consequences that were apprehended to flow from it , are best expressed in the following letter of the immortal Jefferson : Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes , dated April 22nd , 1820 . I thank ...
... feeling then , together with the consequences that were apprehended to flow from it , are best expressed in the following letter of the immortal Jefferson : Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes , dated April 22nd , 1820 . I thank ...
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... feeling and action in the advancing of free speech , free action , free territory , free trade , and free institutions . The import of the words " free speech , " " free action , " " free institu- tions , " is openly avowed to mean the ...
... feeling and action in the advancing of free speech , free action , free territory , free trade , and free institutions . The import of the words " free speech , " " free action , " " free institu- tions , " is openly avowed to mean the ...
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... feeling of his kinsman to extricate him from an affair so tormenting and harrassing , and to obtain from the baroness , what he was himself unable to gain , a promise of freedom from further importunity on a subject which threatened him ...
... feeling of his kinsman to extricate him from an affair so tormenting and harrassing , and to obtain from the baroness , what he was himself unable to gain , a promise of freedom from further importunity on a subject which threatened him ...
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... feeling her charms dispelled by modern innovation . The only signs of exhaustion are to be found in the degrada- tion of the masses- the consequence of gross tyranny . In regard to native resources , both of soil and character , Sicily ...
... feeling her charms dispelled by modern innovation . The only signs of exhaustion are to be found in the degrada- tion of the masses- the consequence of gross tyranny . In regard to native resources , both of soil and character , Sicily ...
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... feeling of curiosity and affection . Revered by the peasants for his learning , and gratefully remembered by travellers ... feel a kind of responsibility on behalf of the ancient volcano ; to him it is a magnificent hobby ! gisters the ...
... feeling of curiosity and affection . Revered by the peasants for his learning , and gratefully remembered by travellers ... feel a kind of responsibility on behalf of the ancient volcano ; to him it is a magnificent hobby ! gisters the ...
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Page 10 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Page 107 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western...
Page 7 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Page 7 - I think it might be. But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other.
Page 10 - 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 148 - So has it been from the beginning, so will it be to the end. Generation after generation takes to itself the Form of a Body; and forth issuing from Cimmerian Night, on Heaven's mission APPEARS.
Page 147 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Page 337 - was exceedingly disposed to please the king and to do him service." "It could never be hoped," he observes elsewhere, " that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them.
Page 10 - Appeals, too, are constantly made to sectional interests in order to influence the election of the Chief Magistrate, as if it were desired that he should favor a particular quarter of the country instead of fulfilling the duties of his station with impartial justice to all; and the possible dissolution of the Union has at length become an ordinary and familiar subject of discussion.
Page 42 - ... the legal check which it puts into the hands of the judiciary. This is a body which, if rendered independent and kept strictly to their own department, merits great confidence for their learning and integrity. In fact, what degree of confidence would be too much for a body composed of such men as Wythe, Blair and Pendleton? On characters like these, the civium ardor prava jubentium would make no impression.