Virginia Literary Museum and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, &c, Volumen 1,Números 1-43University of Virginia, 1829 |
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Página 112
... character , made by the most po- pular and most philosophical statesman of his age . 1 prehension , and proved , from indubitable evidence , the general salubrity of the place . There may be some difference of opinion about the species ...
... character , made by the most po- pular and most philosophical statesman of his age . 1 prehension , and proved , from indubitable evidence , the general salubrity of the place . There may be some difference of opinion about the species ...
Página 113
... character . The Prospectus , discovered . they think , does not warrant this conclu- If charcoal could be melted , it is very sion : to remove , however , all doubts , on probable that it would assume a vitreous tex- the subject , they ...
... character . The Prospectus , discovered . they think , does not warrant this conclu- If charcoal could be melted , it is very sion : to remove , however , all doubts , on probable that it would assume a vitreous tex- the subject , they ...
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... character of many of the Colonists , no one will be surprised at the occasion of the following advertise- ment , however they may admire the polite- ness and fortitude of the lady , under her afflictions . women . ' Mrs. Brown ...
... character of many of the Colonists , no one will be surprised at the occasion of the following advertise- ment , however they may admire the polite- ness and fortitude of the lady , under her afflictions . women . ' Mrs. Brown ...
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... character . sently . Thread , nets , net - work , head orna- ments , napkins , table and funeral cloths , seem to have constituted nearly all the ar- ticles manufactured of Amianthus in former times . Bonnets , gloves , purses , girdles ...
... character . sently . Thread , nets , net - work , head orna- ments , napkins , table and funeral cloths , seem to have constituted nearly all the ar- ticles manufactured of Amianthus in former times . Bonnets , gloves , purses , girdles ...
Página 122
... character appears the modern phrase ' I take leave , ' instead of the ancient and legitimate expression of ' asking ' or ' begging leave . ' The change has been made , I presume , because it has appeared to these precisians that it is ...
... character appears the modern phrase ' I take leave , ' instead of the ancient and legitimate expression of ' asking ' or ' begging leave . ' The change has been made , I presume , because it has appeared to these precisians that it is ...
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Página 421 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Página 188 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 205 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 424 - But turn out of the way a little, good scholar ! towards yonder high honey-suckle hedge ; there we'll sit and sing, whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant meadows.
Página 179 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon...
Página 179 - That the condition of the laboring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of laborers which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers, therefore, indiscriminately, are the fair index of wealth ; that it is the use of the word
Página 160 - I attended the debate, however, at the door of the lobby of the House of Burgesses, and heard the splendid display of Mr. Henry's talents as a popular orator. They were great indeed; such as I have never heard from any other man. He appeared to me to speak as Homer wrote.
Página 179 - The ten labourers add as much wealth annually to the state, increase its exports as much, in the one case as the other. Certainly five hundred freemen produce no more profits, no greater surplus for the payment of taxes, than five hundred slaves. Therefore the state in which are the laborers called freemen, should be taxed no more than that in which are those called slaves.
Página 472 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Página 225 - The legislative, executive, and judiciary departments shall be separate and distinct, so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to the other...