The New-York Review, Volume 3George Dearborn & Company, 1838 |
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... heart of the philan- thropist as if the pathway of humanity were by some necessity of nature a downward and fated course of accumulating evils , as if society were to be dragged forward by an irresistible ten- dency through all the ...
... heart of the philan- thropist as if the pathway of humanity were by some necessity of nature a downward and fated course of accumulating evils , as if society were to be dragged forward by an irresistible ten- dency through all the ...
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... heart may be , his head should be where his hands are , and that is in the daily business of life ; and Political Economy only teaches him how that business is to be best performed for public , as well as private good . We , therefore ...
... heart may be , his head should be where his hands are , and that is in the daily business of life ; and Political Economy only teaches him how that business is to be best performed for public , as well as private good . We , therefore ...
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... heart - rending strain that music ever uttered . The words are taken from the fifty - first psalm , and are intended as thus used , to represent the cry for mercy from a despairing world . The music is written in the key of G. minor ...
... heart - rending strain that music ever uttered . The words are taken from the fifty - first psalm , and are intended as thus used , to represent the cry for mercy from a despairing world . The music is written in the key of G. minor ...
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... heart . The Church of Rome catching the spirit , rose to a degree of majesty and glory which no earthly institution ever before attained . Chivalry displayed the cross and the banner , and breathed into the breasts of mil- lions the ...
... heart . The Church of Rome catching the spirit , rose to a degree of majesty and glory which no earthly institution ever before attained . Chivalry displayed the cross and the banner , and breathed into the breasts of mil- lions the ...
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... heart less agree- able , because it may now be more cheerful and light , approach- ing to playfulness , but at least warm and genial . Thus the player may go on through all the keys , giving to the melody at each change the peculiar ...
... heart less agree- able , because it may now be more cheerful and light , approach- ing to playfulness , but at least warm and genial . Thus the player may go on through all the keys , giving to the melody at each change the peculiar ...
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Page 301 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Page 79 - Cavallo, in Italy, April 20th, 1822, aged five years and three months. ' I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me.
Page 247 - ... PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, AND EXPLANATION Of all words authorized by eminent writers „ TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A VOCABULARY OF THE ROOTS OF ENGLISH WORDS, AND AN ACCENTED LIST OF GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE FROPER NAMES BY ALEXANDER REID, AM, Rector of the Circus School, Edinburgh.
Page 302 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion, and government.
Page 229 - Athens; 1000 from the fall of the Roman empire in the West to the discovery of America; and the remaining 296 will almost complete three centuries of the modern state of Europe and mankind.
Page 68 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 51 - Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.
Page 316 - Their support is founded in the depravity of such minds as have not been mended by religion, nor improved by good education. There is a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame. Hence : On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.
Page 197 - In fact, the Indians that I have had an opportunity of seeing in real life are quite different from those described in poetry. They are by no means the stoics that they are represented; taciturn, unbending, without a tear or a smile.
Page 304 - What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition which would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion? I hold it to be impracticable; and from this, I infer that its security, whatever fine declarations may be inserted in any constitution respecting it, must altogether depend on public opinion and on the general spirit of the people and of the government...