The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 4Benjamin H. Greene, 1841 - American literature |
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... unions were paving the way for a return to the savage state . Property was becoming insecure , and there was no foreseeing what the sovereign mob might not , one day , take it into its head to do . Per- haps it would even go so far as ...
... unions were paving the way for a return to the savage state . Property was becoming insecure , and there was no foreseeing what the sovereign mob might not , one day , take it into its head to do . Per- haps it would even go so far as ...
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... Unions , and all combinations of workingmen for higher wages , which are seldom successful ; and when they are , amount to nothing . In the transition from one price to another , the trade which gets the start of the rest may gain ...
... Unions , and all combinations of workingmen for higher wages , which are seldom successful ; and when they are , amount to nothing . In the transition from one price to another , the trade which gets the start of the rest may gain ...
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... union of our States , and thereby to effect the suppression of Democracy . The strenuous agitation of this , in itself narrow and contemptible quest- ion , which is like the tithing of mint , and annise , and cummin , and forgetting far ...
... union of our States , and thereby to effect the suppression of Democracy . The strenuous agitation of this , in itself narrow and contemptible quest- ion , which is like the tithing of mint , and annise , and cummin , and forgetting far ...
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... Union , which is one from , or out of many- " E Pluribus Unum " -is fortified by all those neces- sary " checks and balances , " which coequal sovereign- ties have ever , in the whole history of the world , en- deavored to effect by ...
... Union , which is one from , or out of many- " E Pluribus Unum " -is fortified by all those neces- sary " checks and balances , " which coequal sovereign- ties have ever , in the whole history of the world , en- deavored to effect by ...
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... Union . The Northern and Eastern States do not contain all the fanatics connected with this singular excitement ; the consolidationists of the South and West being evi- dently as wild , in the opposite direction , as any aboli- tionists ...
... Union . The Northern and Eastern States do not contain all the fanatics connected with this singular excitement ; the consolidationists of the South and West being evi- dently as wild , in the opposite direction , as any aboli- tionists ...
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Page 179 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, Cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiada, facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 427 - tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice. And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Page 78 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 392 - My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you...
Page 151 - Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord 1 or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 428 - Hark ! the rushing snow ! The sun-awakened avalanche ! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, — in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.
Page 438 - There is no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus.
Page 226 - Naught doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying round ; and small birds, how they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn...
Page 381 - I exempt, however, from these remarks, the distribution among the States of the proceeds of the public lands, and their application to pay the debts of the States, should the States choose so to apply the money.
Page 426 - SPIRITS The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and they flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.