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... tion of the public taste converts its productions , like poetry , into a drug ; however people may become indifferent to books , they are never likely to dispense with shirts , or to decline the advantage of the steam engine ; and ...
... tion of the public taste converts its productions , like poetry , into a drug ; however people may become indifferent to books , they are never likely to dispense with shirts , or to decline the advantage of the steam engine ; and ...
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... tion or decay ; or is the old vigor still in our loins ? We think that no fair mind can hesi- tate as to the answer . We believe that our authors have at least not degenera- ted . On the other hand , we believe that they are worthy ...
... tion or decay ; or is the old vigor still in our loins ? We think that no fair mind can hesi- tate as to the answer . We believe that our authors have at least not degenera- ted . On the other hand , we believe that they are worthy ...
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... tion and ease of execution surpass all that is recorded in modern annals , -but in that branch of literature , which comes nearest to enterprise , in narratives of travel , there are many signs of a new and vigor- ous tendency ...
... tion and ease of execution surpass all that is recorded in modern annals , -but in that branch of literature , which comes nearest to enterprise , in narratives of travel , there are many signs of a new and vigor- ous tendency ...
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... tion - misery . " I fell to watching myself studiously at different times , and under various circum- stances . I observed that , at a certain stage , wine produced sensations of extreme delight . But I also observed that these ...
... tion - misery . " I fell to watching myself studiously at different times , and under various circum- stances . I observed that , at a certain stage , wine produced sensations of extreme delight . But I also observed that these ...
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... tion grates upon me like a discord in mu- sic . " Some allusion was made to his early struggles . " It was all up hill , " said he , a slight touch of irony mingling with his usually good - natured tone . " At first they would not allow ...
... tion grates upon me like a discord in mu- sic . " Some allusion was made to his early struggles . " It was all up hill , " said he , a slight touch of irony mingling with his usually good - natured tone . " At first they would not allow ...
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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.