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... writers on the subject sustain it fully . A work on Cuba was published in London in 1849 , by Mr. R. R. Madden ( author of the well - known book on the Infirmities of Genius ) , whỏ held , by appointment from the British government ...
... writers on the subject sustain it fully . A work on Cuba was published in London in 1849 , by Mr. R. R. Madden ( author of the well - known book on the Infirmities of Genius ) , whỏ held , by appointment from the British government ...
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... writers who pretend to the name , there are some at least who are really authors , by which is meant , literary ... writing of sonnets is equi- valent to going shirtless , and the perpe- tration of a romance the next thing in its ...
... writers who pretend to the name , there are some at least who are really authors , by which is meant , literary ... writing of sonnets is equi- valent to going shirtless , and the perpe- tration of a romance the next thing in its ...
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... writing is not so productive of money as cotton spin- ning or merchandise , because , as the Re- view we have just ... writer to whose merits the age is insensi- ble , or whose merits are of no utility to the age , may be left to starve ...
... writing is not so productive of money as cotton spin- ning or merchandise , because , as the Re- view we have just ... writer to whose merits the age is insensi- ble , or whose merits are of no utility to the age , may be left to starve ...
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... writer . And in respect to the latter , he enters the lists under the additional disadvantage , that while his own ... writers by our Ameri- can publishers , for the privilege of a first copy , is virtually nothing . His case , therefore ...
... writer . And in respect to the latter , he enters the lists under the additional disadvantage , that while his own ... writers by our Ameri- can publishers , for the privilege of a first copy , is virtually nothing . His case , therefore ...
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... writers abound in them , -in the most unmistakable evidences of a new and vigorous direction given to their ha- bits of ... writing : while the entertainment which it furnishes could not well be better . It introduces us by pencil and by ...
... writers abound in them , -in the most unmistakable evidences of a new and vigorous direction given to their ha- bits of ... writing : while the entertainment which it furnishes could not well be better . It introduces us by pencil and by ...
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Strona 9 - ... it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Strona 275 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Strona 161 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Strona 9 - ... there are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation; and if an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union, which, by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom.
Strona 216 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
Strona 9 - Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas; the character of its population, its situation midway between our Southern coast and the Island of St.
Strona 15 - THE WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS. A MIST was driving down the British Channel, The day was just begun. And through the window-panes, on floor and panel, Streamed the red autumn sun. It glanced on flowing flag and rippling And the white sails of ships ; And, from the frowning rampart, the black cannon Hailed it with feverish lips.
Strona 15 - Ports. Him shall no sunshine from the fields of azure, No drum-beat from the wall, No morning gun from the black fort's...
Strona 160 - With the bloody, blind film before my eyes, there was a still stranger hum in my head, as if a hornet were there; and I thought to myself, Great God! this is Death! Yet these thoughts were unmixed with alarm. Like frost-work that flashes and shifts its scared hues in the sun, all my braided, blended emotions were in themselves icy cold and calm. "So protracted did my fall seem, that I can even now recall the feeling of wondering how much longer it would be, ere all was over and I struck.
Strona 160 - ... in my ear! One was a soft moaning, as of low waves on the beach; the other wild and heartlessly jubilant, as of the sea in the height of a tempest. Oh soul! thou then heardest life and death: as he who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the Aegean waves.