The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volumen8David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1810 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... talents , fancy , observation and experience can indulge no hope , in the present state of our country , of being placed in retirement ; all those who are capable of enticing the public taste to the pursuit of science and literature ...
... talents , fancy , observation and experience can indulge no hope , in the present state of our country , of being placed in retirement ; all those who are capable of enticing the public taste to the pursuit of science and literature ...
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... talents which his eldest son had displayed , he sent him to India , to get rid of him , and there the youth was slain . It is remarkable that these plays have never been re - published , though they are highly esteemed , and exceedingly ...
... talents which his eldest son had displayed , he sent him to India , to get rid of him , and there the youth was slain . It is remarkable that these plays have never been re - published , though they are highly esteemed , and exceedingly ...
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... talents , and wished to have rewarded them , but here also some envious enemy interfered , and the poet was praised and suffered to continue poor and dependant . The earthquake , which destroyed Lisbon , deprived him of the little he ...
... talents , and wished to have rewarded them , but here also some envious enemy interfered , and the poet was praised and suffered to continue poor and dependant . The earthquake , which destroyed Lisbon , deprived him of the little he ...
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... talents at his call , and enables him to de- liberate and decide , in moments of peril , on affairs of the utmost magnitude , with the same calmness , as when at ease on ques- tions of simple interest . It shows itself in moderation ...
... talents at his call , and enables him to de- liberate and decide , in moments of peril , on affairs of the utmost magnitude , with the same calmness , as when at ease on ques- tions of simple interest . It shows itself in moderation ...
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... talents to estimate and weigh them . Shall he alone be permitted to express the result of his inquiries , who coincides with our prejudices , flatters our pride , or panders to our passions ? If a preponderating power is about to ...
... talents to estimate and weigh them . Shall he alone be permitted to express the result of his inquiries , who coincides with our prejudices , flatters our pride , or panders to our passions ? If a preponderating power is about to ...
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Página 166 - Think what with them they would do That without them dare to woo ; And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be ? Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair: If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve : If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? George Wither.
Página 124 - The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters who had successively dozed away their lives and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam, and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety that they were never either heard or talked of— which, next to being universally applauded, should be the object of ambition of all magistrates and rulers.
Página 27 - Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem : Non quia vexari quemquam est jucunda voluptas, Sed, quibus ipse malis careas, quia cernere suave est.
Página 165 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Página 105 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold; either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index,0 by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Página 125 - ... casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller.
Página 311 - IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had dofft her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.
Página 314 - But see ! the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest ; Time is, our tedious song should here have ending: Heaven's youngest-teemed star Hath fixed her polished car, Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending: And all about the courtly stable Bright-harnessed Angels sit in order serviceable.
Página 313 - With terror of that blast Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne.
Página 125 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.