Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 6Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1844 |
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... condition of free blacks in Jamaica and Hayti , 508 ; extracts from Mr. Walker's speech , comparing the condition of free blacks at the North with Southern slaves and European po- pulation , 509 ; influence of aboli- tion doctrines upon ...
... condition of free blacks in Jamaica and Hayti , 508 ; extracts from Mr. Walker's speech , comparing the condition of free blacks at the North with Southern slaves and European po- pulation , 509 ; influence of aboli- tion doctrines upon ...
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... condition of England , and consequent leniency to the Irish , 15 ; Convention of 1782 , 17 ; Grattan's defence of Ireland , ib .; Declaration of Independence , 18 ; English deception , 19 ; English vi- olate the treaty of pacification ...
... condition of England , and consequent leniency to the Irish , 15 ; Convention of 1782 , 17 ; Grattan's defence of Ireland , ib .; Declaration of Independence , 18 ; English deception , 19 ; English vi- olate the treaty of pacification ...
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... condition . And no where can there be found principles more just and legal , than those which were adop- ted by many of these bodies , indicating their sense of what their condition was , -their conviction of what it should be . No ...
... condition . And no where can there be found principles more just and legal , than those which were adop- ted by many of these bodies , indicating their sense of what their condition was , -their conviction of what it should be . No ...
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... condition of the people , agriculture , as a science , has found but little encouragement . The wretched system of landlord and tenant that prevails there , is a bar to all im- provement . A large proportion of those who cultivate the ...
... condition of the people , agriculture , as a science , has found but little encouragement . The wretched system of landlord and tenant that prevails there , is a bar to all im- provement . A large proportion of those who cultivate the ...
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... condition , encourage the industrious and stimulate the idle , -banish the relic of a false economy in the operation of protection and bounties , —and the brightest jewel in the crown of Britain will again be res- tored to its native ...
... condition , encourage the industrious and stimulate the idle , -banish the relic of a false economy in the operation of protection and bounties , —and the brightest jewel in the crown of Britain will again be res- tored to its native ...
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Page 74 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 121 - The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them ; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 73 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Page 121 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 272 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Page 383 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Page 33 - 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...
Page 120 - ... arose, and went forth into the wilderness, and sought diligently for the man, and found him, and returned with him to the tent; and when he had entreated him kindly, he sent him away on the morrow with gifts. 14. And God spake again unto Abraham, saying, For this thy sin shall thy seed be afflicted four hundred years in a strange land; 15. But for thy repentance will I deliver them; and they shall come forth with power, and with gladness of heart, and with much substance.
Page 73 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Page 53 - Quapropter effigiem dei formamque quaerere inbecillitatis humanae reor. Quisquis est deus, si modo est alius, et quacumque in parte, totus est sensus, totus visus, totus auditus, totus animae, totus animi, totus sui.