The New-York Review, Volume 3George Dearborn & Company, 1838 |
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... person who sees before him two fields possessing equal ' advantages of situation ' one of which yields a large Rent , while the other is lying waste , can with difficulty satisfy himself that the value of the first is not due to the ...
... person who sees before him two fields possessing equal ' advantages of situation ' one of which yields a large Rent , while the other is lying waste , can with difficulty satisfy himself that the value of the first is not due to the ...
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... persons , and some we fear even of those who have acquired a taste for geology , who have yet to learn that a description of a volcanic region may afford new and interesting details . It is not difficult to understand how it happens ...
... persons , and some we fear even of those who have acquired a taste for geology , who have yet to learn that a description of a volcanic region may afford new and interesting details . It is not difficult to understand how it happens ...
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... persons , phenomena of this kind may be the only ones of much interest , and they may imagine that as these mighty energies become exhausted , but little remains to awaken curiosity in the scoriæ , ruin , and desolation around . So far ...
... persons , phenomena of this kind may be the only ones of much interest , and they may imagine that as these mighty energies become exhausted , but little remains to awaken curiosity in the scoriæ , ruin , and desolation around . So far ...
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... persons who habitually employ water that is devoid of its proper proportion of air , are most subject to it , while those who take the precaution to expose their water for thirty or forty hours to the air , before drinking it , escape ...
... persons who habitually employ water that is devoid of its proper proportion of air , are most subject to it , while those who take the precaution to expose their water for thirty or forty hours to the air , before drinking it , escape ...
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... persons of rank ; that they often combined a wild feeling of chivalrous honor with their lawless habits of life ; and that whilst their power made them objects of terror to all , their system of confining their outrages to the rich ...
... persons of rank ; that they often combined a wild feeling of chivalrous honor with their lawless habits of life ; and that whilst their power made them objects of terror to all , their system of confining their outrages to the rich ...
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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...