The United States Democratic Review, Volume 23J.& H.G. Langley, 1848 - United States Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... whole career had borne witness to his loyalty , but now infirm and inactive , was unequal in this crisis , even to an avowal of his opinions ; he was un- certain , undecided , irresolute , and the people had conquered and the King fled ...
... whole career had borne witness to his loyalty , but now infirm and inactive , was unequal in this crisis , even to an avowal of his opinions ; he was un- certain , undecided , irresolute , and the people had conquered and the King fled ...
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... whole household assembled at the fatal door ; a bar of iron was brought ; the panels broken in ; Bonnie and the others entered . The room was almost dark ; the shutters were closed , but a wax candle , placed behind a screen , still ...
... whole household assembled at the fatal door ; a bar of iron was brought ; the panels broken in ; Bonnie and the others entered . The room was almost dark ; the shutters were closed , but a wax candle , placed behind a screen , still ...
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... whole of the night so fatal to its master ; the spirits of the duke , shattered by the events of July , and , ever since , disturbed and unnatural ; these were ad- vanced as indisputable proofs of his having died by his own hand , a ...
... whole of the night so fatal to its master ; the spirits of the duke , shattered by the events of July , and , ever since , disturbed and unnatural ; these were ad- vanced as indisputable proofs of his having died by his own hand , a ...
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... whole of Italy is at present , from the Alps to its most southern extremity , in a state of commotion and insurrection . And Austria , with her iron despotism , trembles at the proximity of these movements . It is only in the north 1848 ...
... whole of Italy is at present , from the Alps to its most southern extremity , in a state of commotion and insurrection . And Austria , with her iron despotism , trembles at the proximity of these movements . It is only in the north 1848 ...
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... whole system is corrupt , and has lately been proved to be so before the highest tribunals of the land , from the highest minister of the crown to the meanest veter in the provinces . Extreme changes have taken place in so- cial as well ...
... whole system is corrupt , and has lately been proved to be so before the highest tribunals of the land , from the highest minister of the crown to the meanest veter in the provinces . Extreme changes have taken place in so- cial as well ...
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Page 10 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism: But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Page 434 - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship.
Page 147 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Page 148 - That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed Force, nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth, as if it were a firm substance: fool!
Page 71 - I met with several kinds of associations in America, of which I confess I had no previous notion ; and I have often admired the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the exertions of a great many men, and in getting them voluntarily to pursue it.
Page 10 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 443 - Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law of Pennsylvania; ... not Christianity with an established church, and tithes, and spiritual courts; but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.
Page 543 - And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it : I pray thee have me excused.
Page 10 - Appeals, too, are constantly made to sectional interests in order to influence the election of the Chief Magistrate, as if it were desired that he should favor a particular quarter of the country instead of fulfilling the duties of his station with impartial justice to all; and the possible dissolution of the Union has at length become an ordinary and familiar subject of discussion.
Page 148 - So has it been from the beginning, so will it be to the end. Generation after generation takes to itself the Form of a Body; and forth-issuing from Cimmerian Night, on Heaven's mission, APPEARS.