The Republican Compiler: Comprising a Series of Scientific, Descriptive, Narrative, Popular, Biographical, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and VerseCramer & Spear, 1818 - 263 pages |
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... dark and diffi- cult , and in a manner impossible . But as soon as he be- comes a little accustomed to it , he finds much more diffi- culty in selecting what is proper than in inventing some . thing that seems to be tolerable . There ...
... dark and diffi- cult , and in a manner impossible . But as soon as he be- comes a little accustomed to it , he finds much more diffi- culty in selecting what is proper than in inventing some . thing that seems to be tolerable . There ...
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... dark rich loam , which forms a gradually ascending plain , from a mile to a mile and a half in extent , when the hills again rise ab- ruptly to the height of about three hundred feet more . In trickling down the cliffs , the water has ...
... dark rich loam , which forms a gradually ascending plain , from a mile to a mile and a half in extent , when the hills again rise ab- ruptly to the height of about three hundred feet more . In trickling down the cliffs , the water has ...
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... dark from one year's end to another without moving ; in the day time they appear re- markably quick sighted and timid , drawing their head in their shell , on the slightest motion of any object ; but they are entirely destitute of ...
... dark from one year's end to another without moving ; in the day time they appear re- markably quick sighted and timid , drawing their head in their shell , on the slightest motion of any object ; but they are entirely destitute of ...
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... dark clouds stationed above , and which , spreading to the right and left , appear ed to form an overhanging crown , for this giant of the waters , On each side of this impenetrable curtain , near the earth , appeared the still glowing ...
... dark clouds stationed above , and which , spreading to the right and left , appear ed to form an overhanging crown , for this giant of the waters , On each side of this impenetrable curtain , near the earth , appeared the still glowing ...
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... dark side of our past affairs . Every American officer and soldier must now console himself , for any unpleasant circumstance which may have occurred , by a recollection of the uncommon scenes in which he has been called to act no ...
... dark side of our past affairs . Every American officer and soldier must now console himself , for any unpleasant circumstance which may have occurred , by a recollection of the uncommon scenes in which he has been called to act no ...
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Page 134 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Page 104 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Page 134 - Besides, sir, we have no election. " If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Page 134 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 242 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 242 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 104 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Page 17 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 133 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.