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... true poetic sense of the Ameri- can , we find some reason for the opinion that not only does an American know how to travel , but he knows how to tell his travels well . Hence , in a popular Magazine , which is a running commentary upon ...
... true poetic sense of the Ameri- can , we find some reason for the opinion that not only does an American know how to travel , but he knows how to tell his travels well . Hence , in a popular Magazine , which is a running commentary upon ...
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... true , it must have been a strange sight , in a civilized country , to see a com- paratively illiterate soldier professing to decide of his own knowledge and judg- ment , and after a few minutes , questions involving intricate facts ...
... true , it must have been a strange sight , in a civilized country , to see a com- paratively illiterate soldier professing to decide of his own knowledge and judg- ment , and after a few minutes , questions involving intricate facts ...
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... true , but it is not of their own kindling , and I have reason to know that even the mighty engine of the press is carried on and worked by American en- terprise , and that the very types are cast in the United States . Ominous sign ...
... true , but it is not of their own kindling , and I have reason to know that even the mighty engine of the press is carried on and worked by American en- terprise , and that the very types are cast in the United States . Ominous sign ...
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... true of states as of persons . But where these are to be shirked , it requires a vast amount of argument , of sophism , and of special pleading , to make " the worse appear the better reason . " There is not , we affirm , one rule of ...
... true of states as of persons . But where these are to be shirked , it requires a vast amount of argument , of sophism , and of special pleading , to make " the worse appear the better reason . " There is not , we affirm , one rule of ...
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ever . It is true that the unfortunate island is entitled to the sympathy of all Christendom ; and although as individuals ... true of the special products of any oth er state . She would also add as much as the Union really needs to the ...
ever . It is true that the unfortunate island is entitled to the sympathy of all Christendom ; and although as individuals ... true of the special products of any oth er state . She would also add as much as the Union really needs to the ...
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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...