The American Whig Review, Volume 14Wiley and Putnam, 1851 |
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... appear advisable , ) on their passage , make a feint to take St. Augustine , and having managed that strata- gem properly , they are to proceed to the island of Cuba and land in the bay of Ma tanza , that being a good harbor and not ...
... appear advisable , ) on their passage , make a feint to take St. Augustine , and having managed that strata- gem properly , they are to proceed to the island of Cuba and land in the bay of Ma tanza , that being a good harbor and not ...
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... appear advisable so to do . The British colonies in America lying so near y object in view , before y ° knowl- edge of the proposed attack can reach to Europe , y whole designe will be executed . It may be asked how it is possible to go ...
... appear advisable so to do . The British colonies in America lying so near y object in view , before y ° knowl- edge of the proposed attack can reach to Europe , y whole designe will be executed . It may be asked how it is possible to go ...
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... appears from a report from the board of trade , dated in the year 1717 , which I well remember to have seen . To encourage the Spaniards to come in willingly it may be advisable to publish a proclamation in the name of his Majesty ...
... appears from a report from the board of trade , dated in the year 1717 , which I well remember to have seen . To encourage the Spaniards to come in willingly it may be advisable to publish a proclamation in the name of his Majesty ...
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... appearing to remark the presence of the new comers . The woman , however , who had introduced Barruello , at once took a seat near the lofty chimney , in which a sooty iron pot hung by a hook and chain . Upon a stool near by lay vegeta ...
... appearing to remark the presence of the new comers . The woman , however , who had introduced Barruello , at once took a seat near the lofty chimney , in which a sooty iron pot hung by a hook and chain . Upon a stool near by lay vegeta ...
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... appear ungenerous ; he at once set to work , and refused to receive payment for any thing more than the value of the wood which he had used in constructing a last tenement for the dead . In addition to this , he promised to attend to ...
... appear ungenerous ; he at once set to work , and refused to receive payment for any thing more than the value of the wood which he had used in constructing a last tenement for the dead . In addition to this , he promised to attend to ...
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Page 71 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 459 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 422 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Page 171 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 285 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 71 - For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 76 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 510 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 31 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Page 220 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.