Brownson's Quarterly Review

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Orestes Augustus Brownson
Benjamin H. Greene, 1855

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Página 127 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Página 447 - ... be able, by the most accurate examination of its sensible qualities, to discover any of its causes or effects. Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed, at the very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him, or from the light and warmth of fire that it would consume him.
Página 226 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Página 447 - Let an object be presented to a man of ever so strong natural reason and abilities ; if that object be entirely new to him, he will not be able, by the most accurate examination of its sensible qualities, to discover any of its causes or effects.
Página 412 - Let every soul be subject to higher powers : for there is no power but from God; and those that are, are ordained of God.
Página 424 - The catechism says that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, which of course is applicable mainly to God as seen in his works.
Página 219 - And bartered away my peace and health' But ah! The slippery change went about like air, — And when I had clutched me a handful here, Away it went there ! I set my heart upon woman next; Hurrah! . For her sweet sake was oft perplexed: But ah!
Página 527 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 330 - We can be ignorant only of what can possibly be known; in other words, there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge.
Página 268 - Paul, should preach to you any other Gospel than that which we have preached, let him be anathema.

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