The American Whig Review, Volumen5Wiley and Putnam, 1847 |
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... appear , Congress ought to be prompt to interpose the check which the Constitution has certainly given it . And if Congress will not interpose , or cannot , then nothing remains but for the people , at the earliest practicable moment ...
... appear , Congress ought to be prompt to interpose the check which the Constitution has certainly given it . And if Congress will not interpose , or cannot , then nothing remains but for the people , at the earliest practicable moment ...
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... appear how little there was in some of them to de- mand the interposition of the government at all - claims , for example , to the tune of a million or two , arising on unfulfilled land contracts with Mexico - while others certainly ...
... appear how little there was in some of them to de- mand the interposition of the government at all - claims , for example , to the tune of a million or two , arising on unfulfilled land contracts with Mexico - while others certainly ...
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... appear from a very simple statement . The Treaty referred to , after ceding to the United States the two Floridas - not from the Perdido merely , to which on the east the United States had claimed for their province of Louisiana , but ...
... appear from a very simple statement . The Treaty referred to , after ceding to the United States the two Floridas - not from the Perdido merely , to which on the east the United States had claimed for their province of Louisiana , but ...
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... appear that the popular resistance had any pro- mise of success . It was on the next day , Thursday , the 29th ... appears , according to this ac- count of the matter , which must be con- sidered as proceeding indirectly from the chief ...
... appear that the popular resistance had any pro- mise of success . It was on the next day , Thursday , the 29th ... appears , according to this ac- count of the matter , which must be con- sidered as proceeding indirectly from the chief ...
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... appear- ed to waver before these reasons . But it was on Madame Adelaide , the Duke's sister , that they seemed to make the deep- est impression . She replied , and with great clearness showed that she appreci- ated the peculiar ...
... appear- ed to waver before these reasons . But it was on Madame Adelaide , the Duke's sister , that they seemed to make the deep- est impression . She replied , and with great clearness showed that she appreci- ated the peculiar ...
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Página 135 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 54 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 122 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale...
Página 403 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 529 - WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saith ;) Utterance, mute and bright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure, by our simple breath : All who see us love us, — We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles, — and unto graces, graces.
Página 547 - I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Página 174 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Página 39 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 518 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers...