The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1806 Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... common people now read ? ... newspapers ; and what do newspapers contain ? ... false news , false principles , false morals , en- deavoured to be impressed on the publick by contending parties , with out the least regard to truth , to ...
... common people now read ? ... newspapers ; and what do newspapers contain ? ... false news , false principles , false morals , en- deavoured to be impressed on the publick by contending parties , with out the least regard to truth , to ...
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... common sense ; but nations will not always recover from their phrensies , and in progress of time my fears may be realized . France in its wild deliriums has astonished the world ; they may be outdone by some more outrageous fever ...
... common sense ; but nations will not always recover from their phrensies , and in progress of time my fears may be realized . France in its wild deliriums has astonished the world ; they may be outdone by some more outrageous fever ...
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... common minds can suddenly flash light enough on such subjects , as to make them rightly impress their torpid organs of sight . If I have succeeded to persuade my readers , that their neighbours are thus blind , it is as much as I have a ...
... common minds can suddenly flash light enough on such subjects , as to make them rightly impress their torpid organs of sight . If I have succeeded to persuade my readers , that their neighbours are thus blind , it is as much as I have a ...
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... common purposes , and our professional men are little in- feriour to those of other countries in the knowledge of their profes- sion . But here our claims to praise must end . Our lawyers are mere lawyers , our physicians are mere ...
... common purposes , and our professional men are little in- feriour to those of other countries in the knowledge of their profes- sion . But here our claims to praise must end . Our lawyers are mere lawyers , our physicians are mere ...
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... common hazard of a critick in the pit , when he has clapped in the wrong place , and is sufficiently disgraced by finding himself alone . It is plainly no violation of the laws of literary courtesy to hold up dulness and absurdity to ...
... common hazard of a critick in the pit , when he has clapped in the wrong place , and is sufficiently disgraced by finding himself alone . It is plainly no violation of the laws of literary courtesy to hold up dulness and absurdity to ...
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Page 448 - ... the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve...
Page 518 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Page 554 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 515 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 515 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in...
Page 189 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 447 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 518 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 278 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Page 335 - In the mean time we did not forget our duty, and though we had a better comedy going, in which Johnson was chief actor, we betook ourselves in good time to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our Station...