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Página 297 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere ? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case, were criminal. We are authorized to hope, that a proper organization of the whole...
Página 231 - That grief can call its own. The mind will in its worst despair . , Still ponder o'er the past, On moments of delight that were Too beautiful to last.
Página 205 - Ah ! whence yon glare That fires the arch of heaven? that dark red smoke Blotting the silver moon? The stars are quenched In darkness, and the pure and spangling snow Gleams faintly through the gloom that gathers round. Hark to that roar whose swift and deafening peals In countless echoes through the mountains ring, Startling pale Midnight on her starry throne! Now swells the intermingling din; the jar Frequent and frightful of the bursting bomb...
Página 163 - No constant relation exists between the general development of the cranium and the degree of intelligence. 2. The dimensions of the anterior part of the cranium, and especially of the forehead, are, at least, as great among idiots as among others. 3. Three-fifths of idiots have larger heads than men of ordinary intelligence. 4. There is no constant relation between the degree of intelligence and the weight of the brain. 5. The different degrees of idiocy are not measurable by the weight of the brain....
Página 211 - Saw o'er their bloom the chilly winter bring Its icy garlands, and thou art not here. Brother, come home. Come home. Would I could send my spirit o'er the deep, Would I could wing it like a bird to thee, To commune with thy thoughts, to fill thy sleep With these unwearying words of melody, Brother, come home.
Página 214 - For school-ma'ams had a rule. With locks well combed, and face so clean, (Boys washed their faces then,) And a
Página 225 - A little spring had lost its way amid the grass and fern, A passing stranger scooped a well, where weary men might turn ; He walled it in, and hung with care a ladle at the brink; He thought not of the deed he did, but judged that toil might drink.
Página 95 - it will be remembered that the American department was the poorest and least interesting of all foreign countries. Of late, it has justly assumed a position of the first importance, as having brought to the aid of our distressed agriculturists, a machine, which if it realizes the anticipations of competent judges, will amply remunerate England for all her outlay connected with the Great exhibition. The reaping machine from the United States is the most valuable contribution from abroad, to the stock...

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