The American Whig Review, Volume 4George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley Wiley and Putnam, 1846 - Periodicals |
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... look after their own interest in this matter . Our own mind , at least , is made up . We will no longer refrain from uttering , before the country , the convictions which have been forced upon us , that the Administration , at ...
... look after their own interest in this matter . Our own mind , at least , is made up . We will no longer refrain from uttering , before the country , the convictions which have been forced upon us , that the Administration , at ...
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... look upon the United States and our people with ex- treme distrust . She did not at all relish our sympathies towards the Texans in their struggle for emancipation . She took up a violent prejudice against us - of course a very ...
... look upon the United States and our people with ex- treme distrust . She did not at all relish our sympathies towards the Texans in their struggle for emancipation . She took up a violent prejudice against us - of course a very ...
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... look as if Mexico , at that time , if she had been unjust , was resolved to be unjust still . There were not wanting many other occasions , while Mr. Thompson was in Mexico , when the dispositions of that Government , whether to oblige ...
... look as if Mexico , at that time , if she had been unjust , was resolved to be unjust still . There were not wanting many other occasions , while Mr. Thompson was in Mexico , when the dispositions of that Government , whether to oblige ...
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... look , certainly , as though in two short years from that time , we must needs be thun- dering with our cannon around her cities , to wake her up to a sense of " the wrongs and injuries we had so long borne , " and of the justice she ...
... look , certainly , as though in two short years from that time , we must needs be thun- dering with our cannon around her cities , to wake her up to a sense of " the wrongs and injuries we had so long borne , " and of the justice she ...
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... looks when she used to come to the school where he was , to see him , " with that weary hang of the head and melan- choly ... look at the setting sun which she likened to the door of heaven , and fancied that her lost children were there ...
... looks when she used to come to the school where he was , to see him , " with that weary hang of the head and melan- choly ... look at the setting sun which she likened to the door of heaven , and fancied that her lost children were there ...
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Page 76 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 367 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 350 - I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 416 - ... to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men...
Page 303 - I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson as a poet of deep beauty and austere tenderness, but sought nothing from him as a philosopher. It was good, nevertheless, to meet him in the woodpaths, or sometimes in our avenue, with that pure intellectual gleam diffused about his presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive more than he could impart.
Page 112 - In the future appropriation of the territory, south of the fortyninth parallel of north latitude, as provided in the first article of this Treaty, the possessory rights of the Hudson's Bay Company and of all British subjects who may be already in the occupation of land or other property, lawfully acquired within the said Territory, shall be respected.
Page 76 - Welcome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound. Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves; Moonlight walks when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan.
Page 412 - Fixed, within reach of every human eye ; The sleepless ocean murmurs for all ears ; The vernal field infuses fresh delight Into all hearts. Throughout the world of sense, Even as an object is sublime or fair, That object is laid open to the view Without reserve or veil ; and as a power Is salutary, or an influence sweet, Are each and all enabled to perceive That power, that influence, by impartial law.
Page 310 - There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," said Goodman Brown to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him as he added, "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!
Page 4 - Spanish government ; statements of which, soliciting the interposition of the government of the United States, have been presented to the department of state, or to the minister of the United States in Spain since the date of the convention of 1802, and until the signature of this treaty.