The National Quarterly Review, Volumen13Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman Pudney & Russell, 1866 |
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... persons who had felt the weight of the philosopher's withering satire as directed against themselves personally or ... person making the charge had a right to name the penalty , while the accused , upon the other hand , had a right to ...
... persons who had felt the weight of the philosopher's withering satire as directed against themselves personally or ... person making the charge had a right to name the penalty , while the accused , upon the other hand , had a right to ...
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... persons whom they meet unexpectedly , know what is good for them ; but that the gods , by * As this passage is translated very differently by different authors , we copy the original for the benefit of the classical student : “ Πρῶτον ...
... persons whom they meet unexpectedly , know what is good for them ; but that the gods , by * As this passage is translated very differently by different authors , we copy the original for the benefit of the classical student : “ Πρῶτον ...
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... person , but even the great king himself , would find them easy to number in comparison with other days and nights . If , therefore , death is a thing of this kind , I say it is a gain ; for thus all futurity appears to be nothing more ...
... person , but even the great king himself , would find them easy to number in comparison with other days and nights . If , therefore , death is a thing of this kind , I say it is a gain ; for thus all futurity appears to be nothing more ...
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... persons is better than that of one intelligent person . Indeed , there are not a few critics , whose views are entitled to respect , who think that it was this contempt for the will of the unthinking multitude more than any other cause ...
... persons is better than that of one intelligent person . Indeed , there are not a few critics , whose views are entitled to respect , who think that it was this contempt for the will of the unthinking multitude more than any other cause ...
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... person could understand Aris- tophanes , not to mention Eschylus , Sophocles , or Euripides , There is not an act or a scene in the dramas of either which does not contain allusions that were utterly unintelligible to those unacquainted ...
... person could understand Aris- tophanes , not to mention Eschylus , Sophocles , or Euripides , There is not an act or a scene in the dramas of either which does not contain allusions that were utterly unintelligible to those unacquainted ...
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Página 180 - States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Página 369 - If Time destroys the evidence of title, the laws have wisely and humanely made length of possession a substitute for that which has been destroyed. He comes with his scythe in one hand to mow down the muniments of our rights; but in his other hand the lawgiver has placed an hourglass, by which he metes out incessantly those portions of duration which render needless the evidence that he has swept away.
Página 238 - Arms and laws do not flourish together. If you are not pleased at what I am about, you have nothing to do but to withdraw : indeed, war will not bear much liberty of speech. When I say this, I am departing from my own right ; for you and all, whom I have found exciting a spirit of faction against me, are at my disposal.
Página 176 - Professing no repentance, glorying apparently in the crime they had committed, avowing still, as the uncontradicted testimony of Mr. Stephens and many others proves, an adherence to the pernicious doctrine of secession, and declaring that they yielded. only to necessity, they insist, with unanimous voice, upon their rights as States, and proclaim that they will submit to no conditions whatever as preliminary to their resumption of power under that Constitution which they still claim the right to...
Página 27 - I think that not only a private person, but even the great king himself, would find them easy to number in comparison with other days and nights. If, therefore, death is a thing of this kind, I say it is a gain; for thus all futurity appears to be nothing more than one night.
Página 179 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled (two-thirds of both Houses concurring.) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 313 - ... above five nights together, which upon occasion he desired I would represent to you, and beg your pardon, he being very much ashamed he should be so rude to a person for whom he hath so great an honour. He is now very well, and, though I fear he is under some small degree of melancholy, yet I think there is no reason to suspect it hath at all touched his understanding, and I hope never will...
Página 174 - It cannot, we think, be denied by any one, having a tolerable acquaintance with public law, that the war thus waged was a civil war of the greatest magnitude. The people waging it were necessarily subject to all the rules which, by the law of nations, control a contest of that character, and to all the legitimate consequences following it. One of those consequences was that, within the limits prescribed by humanity, the conquered rebels were at the mercy of the conquerors.
Página 249 - I am now in a state in which nothing in this world can disturb me more. I am dying : and I am sure it must be consolatory to you, and all who love me, to see how comfortably I am coming to my end.
Página 257 - The silence of the tomb is substituted for the hum of public places. The opulence of a commercial city is changed into hideous poverty. The palaces of kings are become the receptacle of deer, and unclean reptiles inhabit the sanctuary of the gods. What glory is here...