The Columbian Phenix and Boston Review: Containing Useful Information on Literature, Religion, Morality, Politics, and Philosophy, Volumen1Manning & Loring, 1800 - 452 páginas |
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Página 13
... never fhewed any figns of gratitude to his benefactors ; nor even thank- ed them for their favours ; he had commonly made it his practice once a year to visit the fea - port , and at no other time was known to mingle with fociety . So ...
... never fhewed any figns of gratitude to his benefactors ; nor even thank- ed them for their favours ; he had commonly made it his practice once a year to visit the fea - port , and at no other time was known to mingle with fociety . So ...
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... never purifies fenfibly in the river , nor in the cifterns in which it is fometimes kept for a few days for ufe . At the lower part of the town it contains a little fea falt , when the tide is at its height ; but this does not reach to ...
... never purifies fenfibly in the river , nor in the cifterns in which it is fometimes kept for a few days for ufe . At the lower part of the town it contains a little fea falt , when the tide is at its height ; but this does not reach to ...
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... never used , be- ing always very impure , from the duft which it washes from the tops of the houses . The whole fupply of water , from aqueducts and engines , is 109,440 cubic feet in an hour . The valley through which the Thames runs ...
... never used , be- ing always very impure , from the duft which it washes from the tops of the houses . The whole fupply of water , from aqueducts and engines , is 109,440 cubic feet in an hour . The valley through which the Thames runs ...
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... never receive that exercise , or purity of the air , which is requifite ; nor can their food be at all attended to . Add to this a pernicious practice of continuing to give them fuck for even two or three years , by which they hope to ...
... never receive that exercise , or purity of the air , which is requifite ; nor can their food be at all attended to . Add to this a pernicious practice of continuing to give them fuck for even two or three years , by which they hope to ...
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... never differ from others for the fake of fin- gularity , nor forego my own . judgment out of complaifance to the reader . Whenever I med- dle with the dry fkeleton of pol- itics , it fhall be with a design to diffufe into it the foul of ...
... never differ from others for the fake of fin- gularity , nor forego my own . judgment out of complaifance to the reader . Whenever I med- dle with the dry fkeleton of pol- itics , it fhall be with a design to diffufe into it the foul of ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 175 - For shame," said he to the parliament, "get you gone: give place to honester men; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a parliament. I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you: he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Página 417 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Chorus. Let us pity the white man; no mother has he, &c.
Página 434 - It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress.
Página 9 - IT is of the last importance to season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it. Though it may seem extinguished for a while by the cares of the world, the heats of youth, or the allurements of vice, it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion, consideration, age, or misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and overlaid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered.
Página 190 - His Majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies the means of immediate and general pacification. Unhappily no such security hitherto exists : no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed ; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability.
Página 434 - ... fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when, in the fourth generation, the third prince of the house of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation, which by the happy issue of moderate and healing councils was to be made Great Britain, he should see his son...
Página 434 - There is no occasion to exaggerate, where plain truth is of so much weight and importance. But, whether I put the present numbers too high or too low is a matter of little moment. Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world, that state the numbers as high as we will, whilst the dispute continues the exaggeration ends. Whilst we are discussing any given magnitude, they are grown to it.
Página 29 - Moving in his own orbit, he imparted heat and light to his most distant satellites; and combining the physical and moral force of all within his sphere, with irresistible weight he took his course, commiserating folly, disdaining vice, dismaying treason, and invigorating despondency...
Página 416 - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose that he might graze at liberty, a woman, returning from the labours of the field, stopped to observe me, and perceiving that I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her; whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle and told me to follow her. Having conducted me into her hut, she lighted...
Página 28 - ... fought; he conquered. The morning sun cheered the American world. Our country rose on the event; and her dauntless chief, pursuing his blow, completed in the lawns of Princeton what his vast soul had conceived on the shores of Delaware. Thence to the strong grounds of Morristown...