The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Band 11Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1842 |
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... young man , in his legal noviciate , would find on every occasion some fearful conse- quence , to result now or ten thousand years hence , which nothing could avert but the adoption of his own views ; and all this he would press with a ...
... young man , in his legal noviciate , would find on every occasion some fearful conse- quence , to result now or ten thousand years hence , which nothing could avert but the adoption of his own views ; and all this he would press with a ...
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... young Countess Plater of Po- land . Descended from an ancient and honorable family , possessed of rank , charms , wealth , intelligence , at an age when the female heart is most open to the blandishments of society , and sur- rounded by ...
... young Countess Plater of Po- land . Descended from an ancient and honorable family , possessed of rank , charms , wealth , intelligence , at an age when the female heart is most open to the blandishments of society , and sur- rounded by ...
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... young . The usual playthings of children were thrown aside for the higher pleasures that were to be found in books , and in silent meditations un- der the open sky or in the depths of the forest . Her favorite study was history - and ...
... young . The usual playthings of children were thrown aside for the higher pleasures that were to be found in books , and in silent meditations un- der the open sky or in the depths of the forest . Her favorite study was history - and ...
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... young men , her cousins , to whom she had communicated her designs , she repaired to the village of Dousiaty , to arouse the inhabitants to a grand sally against the Russian fortress of Düna- bourg . It was 1842. ] 27 The Polish Heroine .
... young men , her cousins , to whom she had communicated her designs , she repaired to the village of Dousiaty , to arouse the inhabitants to a grand sally against the Russian fortress of Düna- bourg . It was 1842. ] 27 The Polish Heroine .
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... young he- roine ; they plied their scythes and pikes with the coolness of men who were threshing grain ; and in a short while , the Russians were again completely routed . These successes animated Emily to a vigorous attack upon the ...
... young he- roine ; they plied their scythes and pikes with the coolness of men who were threshing grain ; and in a short while , the Russians were again completely routed . These successes animated Emily to a vigorous attack upon the ...
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Seite 80 - No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; 3 And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Seite 75 - All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Seite 145 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Seite 71 - ... there can be but one supreme power which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet, the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
Seite 74 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and...
Seite 563 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Seite 245 - Weep no more, woful Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 343 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age sex and condition including those bound to servitude for a term of years and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Seite 337 - ... public service ; to be ineligible to any office established by a particular State, or under the authority of the United States, except those peculiarly belonging to the functions of the first branch, during the term of service, and for the space of after its expiration ; to be incapable of re-election for the space of after the expiration of their term of service, and to be subject to recall.
Seite 304 - Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the Man is due Who, from his private gardens, where He lived reserved and austere (As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot) Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould.