Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 8Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, James Henley Thornwell, William Gilmore Simms Wiley & Putnam, 1845 |
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... readers will recollect the uneasiness of the public mind , at the long protracted delay which attended the despatch of the Expedition , of which the three first volumes . in quarto of the narrative now lie before us . No measure passed ...
... readers will recollect the uneasiness of the public mind , at the long protracted delay which attended the despatch of the Expedition , of which the three first volumes . in quarto of the narrative now lie before us . No measure passed ...
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... readers to the work itself . On the 25th of September , the expedition sailed from Ma- deira , and , on the 7th of October , reached Porto Praya , in St. Jago , one of the Cape de Verde Islands , having passed over the reported position ...
... readers to the work itself . On the 25th of September , the expedition sailed from Ma- deira , and , on the 7th of October , reached Porto Praya , in St. Jago , one of the Cape de Verde Islands , having passed over the reported position ...
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... readers some idea of the toils and hazards encountered by our naturalists in their excursions into the interior of the islands , we will quote the account of their descent from Mount Aorai : " After proceeding for some time along a ...
... readers some idea of the toils and hazards encountered by our naturalists in their excursions into the interior of the islands , we will quote the account of their descent from Mount Aorai : " After proceeding for some time along a ...
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... readers laugh than cry , -for we are laughing philosophers , and clearly of opinion that wisdom , true wisdom , is a plump , jolly dame , who sits in her arm - chair , laughs right merrily at the farce of life , and takes the world as ...
... readers laugh than cry , -for we are laughing philosophers , and clearly of opinion that wisdom , true wisdom , is a plump , jolly dame , who sits in her arm - chair , laughs right merrily at the farce of life , and takes the world as ...
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... readers ' attention to lighter and less serious themes , -from the contemplation of the movements of one tyrant to those of another , whose subjects , however , are of the softer sex , although among them may be found some of those ...
... readers ' attention to lighter and less serious themes , -from the contemplation of the movements of one tyrant to those of another , whose subjects , however , are of the softer sex , although among them may be found some of those ...
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Page 154 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.
Page 153 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 464 - The legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide, by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis. 2. The arts and sciences shall be promoted in one or more seminaries of learning.
Page 486 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 154 - Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
Page 374 - In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the claims of the Constitution.
Page 269 - Nothing can exceed the beauty of these waters and their safety. Not a shoal exists within the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty inlet, or Hood's canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship.
Page 255 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Page 260 - Rural Economy, in its Relations with Chemistry, Physics and Meteorology ; or Chemistry applied to Agriculture. By JB BOUSSINGAULT, Member of the Institute of France, etc., etc.
Page 372 - Amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...