Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 3Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1843 |
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... possessing but a small share of that power which they had engrossed and abused . During that progress , every feature , every power , every institution had changed : changed too by the most terrible political convulsions which brought ...
... possessing but a small share of that power which they had engrossed and abused . During that progress , every feature , every power , every institution had changed : changed too by the most terrible political convulsions which brought ...
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... possessed none of those elegant mental accomplishments which are the fruits of a judicious education ; but his facul- ties , originally acute , comprehensive and active , were dis- ciplined in the stern school of adversity - a school ...
... possessed none of those elegant mental accomplishments which are the fruits of a judicious education ; but his facul- ties , originally acute , comprehensive and active , were dis- ciplined in the stern school of adversity - a school ...
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... possessed more extensive control of ec- clesiastical concerns than is usually accorded to the reign- ing power , in countries over which the Papacy extends .-- We are no apologists for that great abomination , the union of Church and ...
... possessed more extensive control of ec- clesiastical concerns than is usually accorded to the reign- ing power , in countries over which the Papacy extends .-- We are no apologists for that great abomination , the union of Church and ...
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... possessed the " semblance of worth , not substance . " " A court , " said Francis , " without women is like a year without a spring , a spring without roses . " He fcund , to his own sad experience , that these roses were not without ...
... possessed the " semblance of worth , not substance . " " A court , " said Francis , " without women is like a year without a spring , a spring without roses . " He fcund , to his own sad experience , that these roses were not without ...
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... possessed great argumentative powers , united with a vivid imagination and the most exqui- site sensibility ; and a voice , the sweet and silvery tones of which , were in perfect unison with the benignant expression of his countenance ...
... possessed great argumentative powers , united with a vivid imagination and the most exqui- site sensibility ; and a voice , the sweet and silvery tones of which , were in perfect unison with the benignant expression of his countenance ...
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Page 25 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point, among all people of discernment...
Page 334 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Page 15 - 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 520 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 287 - And the LORD smelled a sweet savour ; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 200 - Some capital city; or less than if this frame Of heaven were falling, and these elements In mutiny had from her axle torn The steadfast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground...
Page 49 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 16 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 520 - ... interposition, thus solemnly asserted by the State of Virginia, be it called what it may — State-right, veto, nullification, or by any other name — I conceive to be the fundamental principle of our system, resting on facts historically as certain as our revolution itself, and deductions as simple and demonstrative as that of any political or moral truth whatever ; and I firmly believe that on its recognition depend the stability and safety of our political institutions.
Page 387 - But here are common, earthly hues, to such an aspect wrought. That none, save thine, can seem so like the beautiful of thought. The song I sing, thy likeness like, is painful mimicry Of something better, which is now a memory to me, Who have upon life's frozen sea arrived the icy spot, Where men's magnetic feelings show their guiding task forgot.