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Page 61
... and it leaves you to infer that they do what none would dare to do that had
either . In the progress of the narrative under consideration , we shall encounter
such a company , and we shall have occasion to contrast their conduct with that
of an ...
... and it leaves you to infer that they do what none would dare to do that had
either . In the progress of the narrative under consideration , we shall encounter
such a company , and we shall have occasion to contrast their conduct with that
of an ...
Page 83
It leaves a chasm in niy arrangements which cannot adequately be filled up . I
had endeavoured to compose an administration , whose talents , integrity ,
names and dispositions , should at once inspire unbounded confidence in the
public ...
It leaves a chasm in niy arrangements which cannot adequately be filled up . I
had endeavoured to compose an administration , whose talents , integrity ,
names and dispositions , should at once inspire unbounded confidence in the
public ...
Page 95
... then ungenerously leaves it to explain how it got there , and why it came . Such
was the military career of Colonel Burr , which , commencing at the age of
nineteen , terminated at twenty - three , comprising within the period of rather
more ...
... then ungenerously leaves it to explain how it got there , and why it came . Such
was the military career of Colonel Burr , which , commencing at the age of
nineteen , terminated at twenty - three , comprising within the period of rather
more ...
Page 114
It is not intended that any mawkish sensibility should be displayed — that we are
to weep over a faded lily , or moralize over à fallen leaf , or “ die of a rose in
aromatic pain ” —but to feel that a positive duty is neglected when plants are
allowed ...
It is not intended that any mawkish sensibility should be displayed — that we are
to weep over a faded lily , or moralize over à fallen leaf , or “ die of a rose in
aromatic pain ” —but to feel that a positive duty is neglected when plants are
allowed ...
Page 116
This movement is effected by elongating the rootlets , and by folding up the
leaves . Such processes , for ever going on , could only result from an irritation or
excitement in the system similar to that which takes place in the animal economy .
This movement is effected by elongating the rootlets , and by folding up the
leaves . Such processes , for ever going on , could only result from an irritation or
excitement in the system similar to that which takes place in the animal economy .
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| Title | American Quarterly Review, Volume 21 Volumes 298-301 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Editor | Robert Walsh |
| Publisher | Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2019 |
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