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... fact . No theory of what a good Magazine should be , will make a Magazine good , if it be not genuine in itself and genuinely related to the time . And it has been already announced in our prospectus , that we have no desire to try an ...
... fact . No theory of what a good Magazine should be , will make a Magazine good , if it be not genuine in itself and genuinely related to the time . And it has been already announced in our prospectus , that we have no desire to try an ...
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... fact authentically proved by a casual circumstance . about eighteen months of his administra- tion Tacon caused one hundred and ninety persons to be deported . Besides these , seven hundred and twenty were sent away under sentence of ...
... fact authentically proved by a casual circumstance . about eighteen months of his administra- tion Tacon caused one hundred and ninety persons to be deported . Besides these , seven hundred and twenty were sent away under sentence of ...
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... house for a single night , be the same either na- ; tive or foreigner , his friend or a mem- ber of his family , without giving informa- tion of the fact , under the penalty of a like punishment . He cannot remove his ок 951 • ·
... house for a single night , be the same either na- ; tive or foreigner , his friend or a mem- ber of his family , without giving informa- tion of the fact , under the penalty of a like punishment . He cannot remove his ок 951 • ·
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... facts before us , unless some- thing extremely unlikely should occur , I can see but one end . " Considerable ... fact which we commend to diplomatists gener- ally , while we avow our conviction that the sooner the present system ...
... facts before us , unless some- thing extremely unlikely should occur , I can see but one end . " Considerable ... fact which we commend to diplomatists gener- ally , while we avow our conviction that the sooner the present system ...
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... fact , that genius , as a general thing , must create its own audience ; but this is as true of other professions as it is of litera- ture . It is true in art ; true in science ; true in mechanical inventions ; and some- times true in ...
... fact , that genius , as a general thing , must create its own audience ; but this is as true of other professions as it is of litera- ture . It is true in art ; true in science ; true in mechanical inventions ; and some- times true in ...
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Page 277 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 218 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
Page 17 - THE WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS A MIST was driving down the British Channel, The day was just begun, And through the window-panes, on floor and panel, Streamed the red autumn sun. It glanced on flowing flag and rippling pennon, And the white sails of ships ; And, from the frowning rampart, the black cannon Hailed it with feverish lips.
Page 11 - These islands, from their local position are natural appendages to the North American continent, and one of them (Cuba) almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations, has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union.
Page 251 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 11 - ... there are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation ; and if an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union, which, by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom.
Page 427 - ... upon it, and tearing it to pieces; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day practised and established among men.
Page 17 - Ports. Him shall no sunshine from the fields of azure, No drum-beat from the wall, No morning gun from the black fort's...
Page 277 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.
Page 163 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...