Southern Quarterly Review, Volumen5Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1844 |
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... hands of the monarch , can never fail to produce the most disgusting corruption , sooner or la- ter . Accordingly , in the reign of Louis XV . , we find France , for nearly two generations , ruled by men who had all the vices , without ...
... hands of the monarch , can never fail to produce the most disgusting corruption , sooner or la- ter . Accordingly , in the reign of Louis XV . , we find France , for nearly two generations , ruled by men who had all the vices , without ...
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... hands of kings , nobles and clergy , and as long as the people had neither wealth nor talent , the government was stable . The political power was united with the elements that can al- ways maintain it . But when the great middle class ...
... hands of kings , nobles and clergy , and as long as the people had neither wealth nor talent , the government was stable . The political power was united with the elements that can al- ways maintain it . But when the great middle class ...
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... hand . " The grand explosion may come sooner or later , according to the application of stimuli , but that is only a question of time , and generally of short time too . For , in the history of government , when the train is all ready ...
... hand . " The grand explosion may come sooner or later , according to the application of stimuli , but that is only a question of time , and generally of short time too . For , in the history of government , when the train is all ready ...
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... hands of a vulgar set , who would never have the soul to bestow one liberal pension , and from whose clumsy fingers not a sous could be extracted . For my own part , I never hear of insurgents but it puts me in a rage , and , for that ...
... hands of a vulgar set , who would never have the soul to bestow one liberal pension , and from whose clumsy fingers not a sous could be extracted . For my own part , I never hear of insurgents but it puts me in a rage , and , for that ...
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... hands of practical statesmen , who , however they may be fascinated with the new theory , are , nevertheless , forced ... hand , has clipped the wings of philosophy and shorn it of its fancies and its vagaries . It has brought it down ...
... hands of practical statesmen , who , however they may be fascinated with the new theory , are , nevertheless , forced ... hand , has clipped the wings of philosophy and shorn it of its fancies and its vagaries . It has brought it down ...
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Página 495 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Página 444 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Página 438 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Página 212 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Página 438 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden (till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat!), Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 452 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th...
Página 452 - Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch; 490 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good and final hope.
Página 367 - I leave where I find it — in the hands of their own governments. It is their affair, not mine. Nor do I complain of the peculiar effect which the magnitude of that population has had in the distribution of power under this federal government. We know, sir, that the representation of the States in the other House is not equal. We know that great advantage in that respect, is enjoyed by the slave-holding States...
Página 454 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Página 264 - Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.