North-American Review and Miscellaneous JournalUniversity of Northern Iowa, 1853 |
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... ment . This , he may be sure , is the only safe course . Not by turning and twisting his eyes , in the hope of seeing things as Homer , Sophocles , Virgil , or Milton saw them ; but by seeing them , by accepting them as he sees them ...
... ment . This , he may be sure , is the only safe course . Not by turning and twisting his eyes , in the hope of seeing things as Homer , Sophocles , Virgil , or Milton saw them ; but by seeing them , by accepting them as he sees them ...
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... ment , this is its essence . Whether it is a government of the few or the many , depends upon the extent to which a Public Opinion is established in any community , and known to exist by those who entertain it . Ideas always become more ...
... ment , this is its essence . Whether it is a government of the few or the many , depends upon the extent to which a Public Opinion is established in any community , and known to exist by those who entertain it . Ideas always become more ...
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... ment , when they are constantly appealed to in support or attack of political measures , and when they are sufficiently alive to preside over the composition of parties . All the necessary elements of any of the principal forms of ...
... ment , when they are constantly appealed to in support or attack of political measures , and when they are sufficiently alive to preside over the composition of parties . All the necessary elements of any of the principal forms of ...
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... ment and people . That government is instituted for the sake of the people , that it is responsible to them , and that they exercise a rightful control over it , are the cardinal points of our system . But it is a step further to ...
... ment and people . That government is instituted for the sake of the people , that it is responsible to them , and that they exercise a rightful control over it , are the cardinal points of our system . But it is a step further to ...
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... ment and the people are universally , invariably , and necessa- rily distinct and different . At any moment of time , there is always a government and a people ; and however rapidly the persons composing the government are changed , or ...
... ment and the people are universally , invariably , and necessa- rily distinct and different . At any moment of time , there is always a government and a people ; and however rapidly the persons composing the government are changed , or ...
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Página 411 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign.
Página 280 - ... riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? or is it rather a country that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses ? Have you not more than once suggested your wishes, and made known your wants, to congress — wants and wishes which gratitude and policy should have anticipated rather than evaded ? And have you not lately, in the meek language of entreating...
Página 338 - I entreat you to consider, that when you choose magistrates, you take them from among yourselves, men subject to like passions as you are. Therefore when you see infirmities in us, you should reflect upon your own, and that would make you bear the more with us, and not be severe censurers of the failings of your magistrates, when you have continual experience of the like infirmities in yourselves and others.
Página 533 - Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. Ninth Edition. Woodcuts. 8vo. 18s. - Manual of Elementary Geology ; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants illustrated by its Geological Monuments.
Página 21 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Página 368 - No man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name shall be stained ; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any...
Página 420 - Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
Página 23 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny front with shells — Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her.
Página 280 - Tell them that though you were the first, and would wish to be the last, to encounter danger, though despair itself can never drive you into dishonor, it may drive you from the field; that the wound, often irritated and never healed, may at length become incurable; and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress...
Página 194 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.