Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-03-01

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the aaherents Of the Wing and Tory parties Of Great
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preseut editor APPERtEf, FERur-oN, HOkIfSHNHTH,
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literature have been 50 hiyhlr r1t"rned.t ana that
wonderful woman Of -ct"nrc, Nf~ ""dEt'Hi*r with
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vrg-rtv. Miss AAsTNEAr, AMI others whose names need
not I've quoted. cnnSpicuously figured. It MAS E1T =oHe
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mouth ,iece Of EeRtEamtsh. This work has ever
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hereditary rights. kingiF pego2attves. Sc. The Is,
founding Developments tnH9a a few years since, re
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rirntary Religion Of England and eventually to re
move the still existing remnants Of sar3a|iAn, which
Z continue TO afHict the British nation. II is has recently
become the medium through which C0bfeH pr5DaHi
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$ fifth closely allied to that Of oar own country; and
r. therefore We may, without any extraordinary effort o
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& OF being erErotted into our more genial soil. II has
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. view, the more attractive features of the two REVIEW.
being now combined in the Westminster. aud thu.
adding greatly 70 its value as a literary periodical.
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e Is a work of more recent origin than those already
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The great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland iei to
t It's establishment. There was no JorRsAL in the JSI
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Of this Anti NatianslCftur agitation. Indeed, the
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that the grand principle which Robertson. Smith, ant
many Of the eminent men Of Scotland took tue field
I century ago TO arrfr doon, ia now adr7eGtea snd rfqf;
" eataL in this able work, and in the same literary me
tropolis.
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Of the grand departments Of human knowledge. at tht
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in themselves. Much foreign talent IL also pledged L
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:, general character, are considered. Literature and tht
a literary merits Of works are discussed, and fiscoynrie
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: principal Editor of this Review, and since his feat,
. has been ably conducted by his son-in law, Tr. Hanna
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