The Statesmen of America in 1846In this book, first published in 1847, the English author Sarah Mytton Maury gives a personal and very positive account of her impressions of the United States upon arriving there in late 1845. Through marriage she gains access to many American statesmen of her day, and the book is dedicated to James Buchanan, later President of the United States. Maury portrays prominent senators, judges, officers, members of the clergy and Presidents John Adams and James K. Polk. Many of the descriptions are interspersed with extracts from speeches and letters by those portrayed. The book gives a great deal of attention to the early nineteenth-century dispute between Britain and the United States about territorial claims in the north-west, the so-called 'Oregon Question'. On this question as in other matters of contention or cultural differences between the two countries, Maury maintains a position of neutrality. |
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Every improvement of the public morals , and every advance of the people in
knowledge , is marked by a corresponding elevation of the moral and intellectual
standard of the press ; and it is at once the chief agent of intellectual improvement
...
Every improvement of the public morals , and every advance of the people in
knowledge , is marked by a corresponding elevation of the moral and intellectual
standard of the press ; and it is at once the chief agent of intellectual improvement
...
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The Yellow race , next to themselves in the scale of mental and moral excellence
, and in the beauty of form , once their superiors in the useful and elegant arts ,
and in learning , and still respectable though stationary ; this race cannot fail to ...
The Yellow race , next to themselves in the scale of mental and moral excellence
, and in the beauty of form , once their superiors in the useful and elegant arts ,
and in learning , and still respectable though stationary ; this race cannot fail to ...
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In stern religious and moral feeling , in the love of freedom and independence , in
moral and physical courage , in honesty , in fidelity , in charity , in patience , he
resembles strongly the first Fathers of Massachusetts ; and on these elder virtues
...
In stern religious and moral feeling , in the love of freedom and independence , in
moral and physical courage , in honesty , in fidelity , in charity , in patience , he
resembles strongly the first Fathers of Massachusetts ; and on these elder virtues
...
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But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors which
elevates the character and improves the heart . Next to the sense of religious duty
and moral feeling , I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a ...
But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors which
elevates the character and improves the heart . Next to the sense of religious duty
and moral feeling , I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a ...
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More than a century elapsed before Grotius attempted to lay its foundations on
Natural Law and the moral precepts of Christianity ; and when sustaining it by
precedents he was compelled to recur to Rome and Greece . It was in reality a
new ...
More than a century elapsed before Grotius attempted to lay its foundations on
Natural Law and the moral precepts of Christianity ; and when sustaining it by
precedents he was compelled to recur to Rome and Greece . It was in reality a
new ...
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| Titel | The Statesmen of America in 1846 Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive Band 360 von Travels in the Old South Iii |
| Autor/in | Sarah Mytton Maury |
| Verlag | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 |
| Original von | British Library |
| Digitalisiert | 28. Jan. 2016 |
| Länge | 548 Seiten |
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