Southern Review, Volume 1A.E. Miller, 1828 |
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... less ancient and prejudiced States , should introduce a speech upon the Co- lonial Trade by a " brief " account of Columbus and his discov- eries , as it is every day's experience to see even our leading politicians lay hold of the most ...
... less ancient and prejudiced States , should introduce a speech upon the Co- lonial Trade by a " brief " account of Columbus and his discov- eries , as it is every day's experience to see even our leading politicians lay hold of the most ...
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... less authority and influence in the Southern States , to say nothing of occasional essays in the newspapers and periodicals , and discourses before the Philosophical and Literary Societies of other cities . It is quite impossible ...
... less authority and influence in the Southern States , to say nothing of occasional essays in the newspapers and periodicals , and discourses before the Philosophical and Literary Societies of other cities . It is quite impossible ...
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... less efficacious , according to the pointed saying of the great historian - corruptissima republicâ plurimæ leges . But what a difference was there , and how essential is that difference in the eyes of posterity , between the age of ...
... less efficacious , according to the pointed saying of the great historian - corruptissima republicâ plurimæ leges . But what a difference was there , and how essential is that difference in the eyes of posterity , between the age of ...
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... less real or the less familiar to our experience on that account . It is these feelings , whether utterance be given to them , or they be only nursed in the smitten bosom - whether they be couched in metre , or poured out with wild ...
... less real or the less familiar to our experience on that account . It is these feelings , whether utterance be given to them , or they be only nursed in the smitten bosom - whether they be couched in metre , or poured out with wild ...
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... less money and may be multiplied a great deal more easily than MSS . upon parchment ? But what sort of connexion is there between the premises and the conclusion in the following pro- position - Cicero's writings were not read by as ...
... less money and may be multiplied a great deal more easily than MSS . upon parchment ? But what sort of connexion is there between the premises and the conclusion in the following pro- position - Cicero's writings were not read by as ...
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Page 275 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 284 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite.
Page 316 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the United States.
Page 34 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 288 - To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations ; "11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water ; " 12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years ; " 13. To provide and maintain a navy ;
Page 288 - States; 3 To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; 4 To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures...
Page 22 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 306 - It has been urged and echoed, that the power " to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States...
Page 286 - In the first place it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws : its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.
Page 22 - I mean not here the prosody of a verse, which they could not but have hit on before among the rudiments of grammar...