The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 - English literature |
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... hands and an apprehensive countenance , surveying his negro judges , who sit in state , and with high foreheads , aquiline noses , thin lips , and short chins , resemble their black progenitors no more in their features than in their ...
... hands and an apprehensive countenance , surveying his negro judges , who sit in state , and with high foreheads , aquiline noses , thin lips , and short chins , resemble their black progenitors no more in their features than in their ...
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... hand , if we even are able from our situa tion to prevent the French from attempting the re - conquest of St. Domingo , it is extremely questionable how far we ought to exert such a power . It is doubtful how far we ought to encourage ...
... hand , if we even are able from our situa tion to prevent the French from attempting the re - conquest of St. Domingo , it is extremely questionable how far we ought to exert such a power . It is doubtful how far we ought to encourage ...
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... hands , and it is with us to continue or to annihilate its inflammability . In these circumstances it is with peculiar satisfaction that every lover of his country who is unbiassed by the hopes of gain , must regard the late resolutions ...
... hands , and it is with us to continue or to annihilate its inflammability . In these circumstances it is with peculiar satisfaction that every lover of his country who is unbiassed by the hopes of gain , must regard the late resolutions ...
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... hand of nature , as completely to be concealed in their verdant covering - Let him figure to himself this beautiful sheet of water , with its numerous islands , to be en- ' compassed on every side by hills of a moderate height , rising ...
... hand of nature , as completely to be concealed in their verdant covering - Let him figure to himself this beautiful sheet of water , with its numerous islands , to be en- ' compassed on every side by hills of a moderate height , rising ...
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... hands and suffered death ; but his queen , the young prince , and some others of the royal family , escaped into a forest , whence , after some vain attempts to recover their inheritance , they found it expedient to retire with a few ...
... hands and suffered death ; but his queen , the young prince , and some others of the royal family , escaped into a forest , whence , after some vain attempts to recover their inheritance , they found it expedient to retire with a few ...
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Page 353 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Page 353 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Page 353 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 353 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Page 354 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Page 354 - Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people depends on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of that government as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors.
Page 243 - God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Page 125 - See all its store of inland waters hurl'd In one vast volume down Niagara's steep, Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep, Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bed...
Page 353 - Constitution: for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Page 353 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said: 'I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.