The Anglo-American Magazine, Volume 2Maclear., 1853 - Canada |
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... fear , but little inclination on the part of citizens of the United States , to seek protection under the guns of a British ship of war . Still , few as they were , they may serve to suggest the reflection , how readily the national ...
... fear , but little inclination on the part of citizens of the United States , to seek protection under the guns of a British ship of war . Still , few as they were , they may serve to suggest the reflection , how readily the national ...
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... fear of compelling the United States to throw themselves eventually into the arms of Great Britain might have induced him to treat a remonstrance from that republic with at least some respect . It was pleaded by England , as we may call ...
... fear of compelling the United States to throw themselves eventually into the arms of Great Britain might have induced him to treat a remonstrance from that republic with at least some respect . It was pleaded by England , as we may call ...
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... fear of the Kirk Session before my eyes , more by taken that , I had once to thole a rebuke for witnessing Patie and Roger , acted by some strollers in Bailie Bellyband's barn . The Dominie , however , laughed my scruples to scorn ...
... fear of the Kirk Session before my eyes , more by taken that , I had once to thole a rebuke for witnessing Patie and Roger , acted by some strollers in Bailie Bellyband's barn . The Dominie , however , laughed my scruples to scorn ...
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... fear , hatred , and not unfrequently contempt . " " I deny the latter assumption , " said John jumping up from his chair ( he was hardly ever at rest for five minutes together , ) and turning with his back to the fire so as to face his ...
... fear , hatred , and not unfrequently contempt . " " I deny the latter assumption , " said John jumping up from his chair ( he was hardly ever at rest for five minutes together , ) and turning with his back to the fire so as to face his ...
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... fear of punish- ment or hope of reward . He has been my pillow in places of danger , and has watched while I slept in safety . We have shared many a short allowance between us , and have mutu- ally risked our lives to save that of the ...
... fear of punish- ment or hope of reward . He has been my pillow in places of danger , and has watched while I slept in safety . We have shared many a short allowance between us , and have mutu- ally risked our lives to save that of the ...
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Page 83 - How beautiful this night ! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Page 73 - How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful...
Page 197 - But these intervals of tranquillity are only at the turn of the ebb and flood, and in calm weather, and last but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually returning. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it. Boats, yachts, and ships have been carried away by not guarding against it before they were within its reach. It likewise happens frequently...
Page 259 - That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, privileges, or franchises, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the law of the land, X.
Page 200 - Never shall I forget the sensations of awe, horror, and admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference, prodigious in depth, and whose perfectly smooth sides might have been mistaken for ebony...
Page 73 - ... veins Which steal like streams along a field of snow. That lovely outline which is fair As breathing marble, perish ? Must putrefaction's breath Leave nothing of this heavenly sight But loathsomeness and ruin ? Spare nothing but a gloomy theme, On which the lightest heart might moralize...
Page 246 - THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.
Page 162 - The spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight.
Page 143 - There was a discordant hum of human voices ! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets ! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders ! The fiery walls rushed back ! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.
Page 196 - Nothing would have tempted me to within half a dozen yards of its brink. In truth so deeply was I excited by the perilous position of my companion, that I fell at full length upon the ground, clung to the shrubs around me, and dared not even glance upward at the sky — while I struggled in vain to divest myself of the idea that the very foundations of the mountain were in danger from the fury of the winds. It was long before I could reason myself into sufficient courage to sit up and look out into...