The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 15Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1844 - United States |
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... matter , without regard to the opposite fanaticisms which rage on both sides of it . Every one who has either read or thought on the subject is aware that the value of a slave's labor is never equal to that of a freeman , and that the ...
... matter , without regard to the opposite fanaticisms which rage on both sides of it . Every one who has either read or thought on the subject is aware that the value of a slave's labor is never equal to that of a freeman , and that the ...
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... matter and motion the only existences in the " system of the world . " Thus matter and sense became the great object of worship , in which man , his intellect , his soul , nay , even the Deity , became merged . The outward , mate- rial ...
... matter and motion the only existences in the " system of the world . " Thus matter and sense became the great object of worship , in which man , his intellect , his soul , nay , even the Deity , became merged . The outward , mate- rial ...
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... matter , reason above sense , -man above nature ; finally , it would lead us , when carried out to its fullest limit , to regard man as the centre and source of all truth , all knowledge , all power . Not only , to repeat the words of ...
... matter , reason above sense , -man above nature ; finally , it would lead us , when carried out to its fullest limit , to regard man as the centre and source of all truth , all knowledge , all power . Not only , to repeat the words of ...
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... matter , and not idly present in mankind , the image that reflects and him . The presence of God in the creates nature , without which nature soul is what we call inspiration ; it is a were not . " " Through breathing in of God ...
... matter , and not idly present in mankind , the image that reflects and him . The presence of God in the creates nature , without which nature soul is what we call inspiration ; it is a were not . " " Through breathing in of God ...
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... matter much to him , in his triumph over all the ages , though a generation or two of his own times shall do themselves the wrong to dis- regard him . By this time , Monsieur On - Dit had caught up the stranger's name and des- tiny ...
... matter much to him , in his triumph over all the ages , though a generation or two of his own times shall do themselves the wrong to dis- regard him . By this time , Monsieur On - Dit had caught up the stranger's name and des- tiny ...
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Page 194 - States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 364 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Page 29 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 30 - Then sawest thou that this fair universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the Stardomed City of God ; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams.
Page 28 - It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. He is weaker by every recruit to his banner. Is not a man better than a town? Ask nothing of men, and in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
Page 549 - Giovanni had half-hoped, half-feared, would be the case, — a figure appeared beneath the antique sculptured portal, and came down between the rows of plants, inhaling their various perfumes, as if she were one of those beings of old classic fable, that lived upon sweet odors. On again beholding Beatrice, the young man was even startled to perceive how much her beauty exceeded his recollection of it; so brilliant, so vivid was its character, that she glowed amid the sunlight, and, as Giovanni whispered...
Page 364 - I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved, for he was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth.
Page 249 - WHAT are we set on earth for ? Say, to toil — Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines, For all the heat o' the day, till it declines, And death's mild curfew shall from work assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil, To wrestle, not to reign ; and He assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets.
Page 548 - He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine. Giovanni, conceiving that men of science, inhabitants of the same city, must needs be on familiar terms with one another, took an opportunity to mention the name of Dr. Rappaccini. But the professor did not respond with so much cordiality as he had anticipated. "Ill would it become a teacher of the divine art of medicine...
Page 29 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.