The Southern Review, Volume 3A. E. Miller., 1829 |
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... kind— it was to be a brave knight in the field , a righteous judge in the court , a faithful and true friend in all the offices of life . It is manifest that such a relation in its purity , and as far as the aris- tocracy was concerned ...
... kind— it was to be a brave knight in the field , a righteous judge in the court , a faithful and true friend in all the offices of life . It is manifest that such a relation in its purity , and as far as the aris- tocracy was concerned ...
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... kind , or from what source soever , are deemed inconsistent with the policy of com- mercial countries , and accordingly , in the progress of society , they are uniformly relaxed , and in some cases abolished alto- gether . A striking ...
... kind , or from what source soever , are deemed inconsistent with the policy of com- mercial countries , and accordingly , in the progress of society , they are uniformly relaxed , and in some cases abolished alto- gether . A striking ...
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... kind had such issue , his estate , according to the maxim of the law , that when a con- dition is once performed , it is thenceforth entirely gone , became absolute at least to the three following purposes : -1st . To enable him to ...
... kind had such issue , his estate , according to the maxim of the law , that when a con- dition is once performed , it is thenceforth entirely gone , became absolute at least to the three following purposes : -1st . To enable him to ...
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... kind soever , the assets in the hands of the heir are liable only to debts of record and debts by specialty , in which the heir is named - to the former , because the process of the court creates a lien on the lands themselves ; to the ...
... kind soever , the assets in the hands of the heir are liable only to debts of record and debts by specialty , in which the heir is named - to the former , because the process of the court creates a lien on the lands themselves ; to the ...
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... kind of technical aid to the memory of the reader , they may properly be ranked with the labours of Dr. Gray , or those of the renowned authors of As in præsenti . What musician would be tolerated , who should demand of his hearers an ...
... kind of technical aid to the memory of the reader , they may properly be ranked with the labours of Dr. Gray , or those of the renowned authors of As in præsenti . What musician would be tolerated , who should demand of his hearers an ...
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Page 212 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 453 - ... the United States ; or to stir up sedition within the United States ; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States...
Page 362 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 453 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute...
Page 125 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.
Page 63 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 454 - If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it...
Page 453 - ... of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Page 382 - ... simultaneously. He was a prince, by birth a prince ; and he wished to reign only that good men might be good without obstruction. Pleasing in form, polished by nature, courteous from the heart, he was meant to be the pattern of youth and the joy of the world. " Without any prominent passion, his love for Ophelia was a still presentiment of sweet wants. His zeal in knightly accomplishments was not entirely his own ; it needed to be quickened and inflamed by praise bestowed on others for excelling...
Page 295 - In any triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference.