American Eclectic and Museum of Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1John Holmes Agnew E. Littell, 1843 - American periodicals |
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... fact in the internal history of the Revolution, supported by two Republican and one Royalist authority ; and every event in the military narrative drawn from at least two writers on the part of the French, and one on that of their ...
... fact in the internal history of the Revolution, supported by two Republican and one Royalist authority ; and every event in the military narrative drawn from at least two writers on the part of the French, and one on that of their ...
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... fact is so . Faulty as popular governments generally are , their fault has seldom been a want of able and experienced servants . Neither America , nor Athens , nor even revolutionary France , found reason to complain of the mediocrity ...
... fact is so . Faulty as popular governments generally are , their fault has seldom been a want of able and experienced servants . Neither America , nor Athens , nor even revolutionary France , found reason to complain of the mediocrity ...
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... fact is , trial ; for the English aristocracy did not that the civil authorities failed to do their fly their country when the Reform Bill duty in repressing the first symptoms of tu- passed . For the benefit of the incredulous mult ...
... fact is , trial ; for the English aristocracy did not that the civil authorities failed to do their fly their country when the Reform Bill duty in repressing the first symptoms of tu- passed . For the benefit of the incredulous mult ...
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... fact , that for twenty years by the suppression , or the sophistical pallia- his life and the history of Europe are ... facts and arguments , ing the wars of the French empire . Wher- we cannot see that we are called upon to in - ever ...
... fact , that for twenty years by the suppression , or the sophistical pallia- his life and the history of Europe are ... facts and arguments , ing the wars of the French empire . Wher- we cannot see that we are called upon to in - ever ...
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... fact , and for the jury's coincidence in that view ; a point that was doubtful in England for half a century afterwards . The trials for Witchcraft and the Negro Plot are spe . cimens of that panic fear affecting a whole " In 1665 ...
... fact , and for the jury's coincidence in that view ; a point that was doubtful in England for half a century afterwards . The trials for Witchcraft and the Negro Plot are spe . cimens of that panic fear affecting a whole " In 1665 ...
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Page 472 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 398 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Page 158 - How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Page 381 - For so work the honey bees : Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts : Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Page 205 - But when the face of Sextus Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament From all the town arose. On the house-tops was no woman But spat towards him and hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist.
Page 120 - ... serene, I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been. While e'en thy chill, bleak corse I have, Thou seemest still mine own, But there I lay thee in thy grave — And I am now alone! I do not think, where'er thou art, Thou hast forgotten me; And I perhaps may soothe this heart, In thinking too of thee : Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn. And never can restore.
Page 205 - But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.
Page 187 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Page 354 - A bee amongst the flowers in spring, is one of the most cheerful objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment : so busy and so pleased...
Page 205 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. "Down with him !" cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face; "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, "Now yield thee to our grace.