American Quarterly Review, Volume 22Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - United States |
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... truth will burst upon our senses , that the shedding of human blood is not essential to the preservation of our character , either as a nation or as an individual . We shall discover that there is no excuse - no necessity for war ...
... truth will burst upon our senses , that the shedding of human blood is not essential to the preservation of our character , either as a nation or as an individual . We shall discover that there is no excuse - no necessity for war ...
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... truth is for ever intruding , that death by the pistol ball , when both parties are on an equality , and death by a cannon ball , in war , are precisely the same - no sophistry can prove a difference , and no one , in the eye of equity ...
... truth is for ever intruding , that death by the pistol ball , when both parties are on an equality , and death by a cannon ball , in war , are precisely the same - no sophistry can prove a difference , and no one , in the eye of equity ...
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... truth of these sagacious remarks was exemplified a few years ago , when a number of very young naval officers were suddenly driven from the service , principals and seconds , for being engaged in a duel that terminated fatally . Since ...
... truth of these sagacious remarks was exemplified a few years ago , when a number of very young naval officers were suddenly driven from the service , principals and seconds , for being engaged in a duel that terminated fatally . Since ...
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... truth , we should find that , in her secret soul , she grumbled that her abolition friends , knowing the sacrifices she was making for their benefit , did not , from point to point , by a general cir- cular given into her hand , supply ...
... truth , we should find that , in her secret soul , she grumbled that her abolition friends , knowing the sacrifices she was making for their benefit , did not , from point to point , by a general cir- cular given into her hand , supply ...
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... truth in wine . In the name of that Heaven which she invokes , what does the woman want - what more range does she require for her sex than the privileges which she herself enjoyed of travelling unmolested - even in the Lynching ...
... truth in wine . In the name of that Heaven which she invokes , what does the woman want - what more range does she require for her sex than the privileges which she herself enjoyed of travelling unmolested - even in the Lynching ...
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Page 211 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 219 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 221 - Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptised or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
Page 240 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Page 477 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Page 303 - I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.
Page 219 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 215 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Page 214 - I possessed, it may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.
Page 477 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...