The New-York Review, Volume 3George Dearborn & Company, 1838 |
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... increased . That this increased production is attended by the power on the part of the laborer to retain a constantly increasing proportion of the com- modities produced . He is , therefore , constantly improving in his condition ...
... increased . That this increased production is attended by the power on the part of the laborer to retain a constantly increasing proportion of the com- modities produced . He is , therefore , constantly improving in his condition ...
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... increased facility of obtaining the means of sub- sistence causes a constant diminution in the proportion of the pop- ulation required for the production of food , and enables a constant- ly increasing proportion to apply themselves to ...
... increased facility of obtaining the means of sub- sistence causes a constant diminution in the proportion of the pop- ulation required for the production of food , and enables a constant- ly increasing proportion to apply themselves to ...
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... increased faci- lity " of obtaining food a necessary result of cultivating " infe- rior soils ; " what we would ask , entitles such language to be termed a " law . " Is it not rather an argument ? a statement ? a process any thing in ...
... increased faci- lity " of obtaining food a necessary result of cultivating " infe- rior soils ; " what we would ask , entitles such language to be termed a " law . " Is it not rather an argument ? a statement ? a process any thing in ...
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... increased in numbers ; and hundreds who , before , had probably little inclination to look into the narrative of a geological excursion , are now somewhat disappointed if a new book of travels does not contain some account of the ...
... increased in numbers ; and hundreds who , before , had probably little inclination to look into the narrative of a geological excursion , are now somewhat disappointed if a new book of travels does not contain some account of the ...
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... increases about one degree of Fah- renheit for every hundred feet . From this it may be calculated that , providing the increase of temperature be progressive , we should have a temperature , at about three miles , equal to that of ...
... increases about one degree of Fah- renheit for every hundred feet . From this it may be calculated that , providing the increase of temperature be progressive , we should have a temperature , at about three miles , equal to that of ...
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Page 301 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Page 79 - Cavallo, in Italy, April 20th, 1822, aged five years and three months. ' I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me.
Page 247 - ... PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, AND EXPLANATION Of all words authorized by eminent writers „ TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A VOCABULARY OF THE ROOTS OF ENGLISH WORDS, AND AN ACCENTED LIST OF GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE FROPER NAMES BY ALEXANDER REID, AM, Rector of the Circus School, Edinburgh.
Page 302 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion, and government.
Page 229 - Athens; 1000 from the fall of the Roman empire in the West to the discovery of America; and the remaining 296 will almost complete three centuries of the modern state of Europe and mankind.
Page 68 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 51 - Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.
Page 316 - Their support is founded in the depravity of such minds as have not been mended by religion, nor improved by good education. There is a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame. Hence : On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.
Page 197 - In fact, the Indians that I have had an opportunity of seeing in real life are quite different from those described in poetry. They are by no means the stoics that they are represented; taciturn, unbending, without a tear or a smile.
Page 304 - What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition which would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion? I hold it to be impracticable; and from this, I infer that its security, whatever fine declarations may be inserted in any constitution respecting it, must altogether depend on public opinion and on the general spirit of the people and of the government...