Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1844 |
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... ment , -Mighty Fish - Monster , -Oxide of Anti- mony for White Lead , -Prince Polignac , -The French Clergy , -Eruption of Ætna , -A Cucum- ber , -Broadway Church , Westminster , -British and Foreign Institute , 427 ; The Heart of St ...
... ment , -Mighty Fish - Monster , -Oxide of Anti- mony for White Lead , -Prince Polignac , -The French Clergy , -Eruption of Ætna , -A Cucum- ber , -Broadway Church , Westminster , -British and Foreign Institute , 427 ; The Heart of St ...
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... ment of French history and a geographical treatise , we find a detailed view of the priv- ileges of the nobles and the oppression of the people , and a long discourse on the heresy which was advancing with rapid strides . The Tiers Etat ...
... ment of French history and a geographical treatise , we find a detailed view of the priv- ileges of the nobles and the oppression of the people , and a long discourse on the heresy which was advancing with rapid strides . The Tiers Etat ...
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... ment and prudence . He appears eloquent be- execution . cause he has fair and spontaneous phrases , and a subtle method of deceiving ; but he is super- paint by words the flight and the fear of Meaux ; " It would be difficult ...
... ment and prudence . He appears eloquent be- execution . cause he has fair and spontaneous phrases , and a subtle method of deceiving ; but he is super- paint by words the flight and the fear of Meaux ; " It would be difficult ...
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... ment of this third and last part of my " Remi- niscences " of Louis Philippe , because the whole of the policy of his majesty , viz . , that of peace , and the recognition of existing treaties , was based upon it . When , then , I ...
... ment of this third and last part of my " Remi- niscences " of Louis Philippe , because the whole of the policy of his majesty , viz . , that of peace , and the recognition of existing treaties , was based upon it . When , then , I ...
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... ment to those who , even to this day , maintain that a republican form of government could have been established in France , and that Lafayette had a crown to dispose of , which he could have placed on his own head , as chief of the ...
... ment to those who , even to this day , maintain that a republican form of government could have been established in France , and that Lafayette had a crown to dispose of , which he could have placed on his own head , as chief of the ...
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Page 460 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 443 - They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Page 395 - I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 430 - ... moral and intellectual qualities. Nor, we are convinced, will the severest of our readers blame us if, on an occasion like the present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory of English literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty.
Page 297 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 433 - Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these...
Page 174 - Si, comme je me plais à le croire, l'intérêt de la science est compté au nombre des grands intérêts nationaux , j'ai donné à mon pays tout ce que lui donne le soldat mutilé sur le champ de bataille.
Page 432 - A philosopher might admire so noble a conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty Legions,...
Page 399 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear : change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 431 - fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which almost amounts to a partial and temporary derangement of the intellect.