North-American Review and Miscellaneous JournalUniversity of Northern Iowa, 1826 |
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Strana 11
... feelings , that a gentleman of his character and qualifications , not more distinguished by his great and varied attainments , than by the urbanity of his man- ners , should take so lively an interest in the advancement of science among ...
... feelings , that a gentleman of his character and qualifications , not more distinguished by his great and varied attainments , than by the urbanity of his man- ners , should take so lively an interest in the advancement of science among ...
Strana 35
... feelings , for a crowd of similes and metaphors ; in short , for a style bearing a greater resemblance to the Irish , than to any other modern oratory , and far too bold to be adopted with propriety in a modern assembly . To those who ...
... feelings , for a crowd of similes and metaphors ; in short , for a style bearing a greater resemblance to the Irish , than to any other modern oratory , and far too bold to be adopted with propriety in a modern assembly . To those who ...
Strana 36
... feeling , displayed at intervals by other orators , bursts forth in Demosthenes with every sentence . We are forcibly reminded of the description of lightning in Homer ; ' By turns one flash succeeds , as one expires , And Heaven flames ...
... feeling , displayed at intervals by other orators , bursts forth in Demosthenes with every sentence . We are forcibly reminded of the description of lightning in Homer ; ' By turns one flash succeeds , as one expires , And Heaven flames ...
Strana 41
... feelings , but for a benevolent and practicable object . His reproofs are con- stantly followed by exhortations and encouragement , and while he condemns , with the most unsparing acrimony , the degene- racy of the Athenians , he never ...
... feelings , but for a benevolent and practicable object . His reproofs are con- stantly followed by exhortations and encouragement , and while he condemns , with the most unsparing acrimony , the degene- racy of the Athenians , he never ...
Strana 46
... feelings even of a modern audience , under similar circumstances , must have seemed far more credible to a Pagan assembly , who were prone to consider misfortune , not only as a presumptive proof of misconduct , but as a sure indication ...
... feelings even of a modern audience , under similar circumstances , must have seemed far more credible to a Pagan assembly , who were prone to consider misfortune , not only as a presumptive proof of misconduct , but as a sure indication ...
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Strana 390 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 434 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Strana 391 - ... CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them by murdering the people...
Strana 388 - He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People...
Strana 370 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Strana 389 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Strana 387 - ... such government, and to provide new guards for their future security- such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government...
Strana 63 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Strana 438 - Take thy banner ! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it ! — till our homes are free ! Guard it ! — God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then.
Strana 391 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...