The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 4Benjamin H. Greene, 1841 - American literature |
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ye call the lower class , on whose rights , feelings , and interests ye trample every moment , and for whom ye care less than ye care for your oxen or your horses . Ye strut and swell with a boasted superiority , do ye ? Know ye not ...
ye call the lower class , on whose rights , feelings , and interests ye trample every moment , and for whom ye care less than ye care for your oxen or your horses . Ye strut and swell with a boasted superiority , do ye ? Know ye not ...
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... interests , and , I may add , my convictions , are with the Conserva- tives . I do not feel it my duty to set up for a Re- former , to be wiser than all who went before me , than most of my contemporaries . I am not yet capable of so ...
... interests , and , I may add , my convictions , are with the Conserva- tives . I do not feel it my duty to set up for a Re- former , to be wiser than all who went before me , than most of my contemporaries . I am not yet capable of so ...
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... interests are as sacred in our eyes as yours are in yours ; we desire a greater degree of equality , and as we are as ninety and nine to one , we can hardly be persuaded that what is desirable to us , is upon the whole undesirable . C ...
... interests are as sacred in our eyes as yours are in yours ; we desire a greater degree of equality , and as we are as ninety and nine to one , we can hardly be persuaded that what is desirable to us , is upon the whole undesirable . C ...
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... interests of mankind , —an unquenchable thirst to promote the well - being of the poor and the neglected ? C. Perhaps ... interest ? A man like yourself has few in- ducements to be a Reformer ; you can hope to gain nothing by a Reform ...
... interests of mankind , —an unquenchable thirst to promote the well - being of the poor and the neglected ? C. Perhaps ... interest ? A man like yourself has few in- ducements to be a Reformer ; you can hope to gain nothing by a Reform ...
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... man . But the men , who are devoted to the highest and most enduring interests of mankind , are never popular . He who has the misfortune to think in advance of his contem- poraries 14 [ Jan. Conversations with a Radical .
... man . But the men , who are devoted to the highest and most enduring interests of mankind , are never popular . He who has the misfortune to think in advance of his contem- poraries 14 [ Jan. Conversations with a Radical .
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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.