Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States of America: Being a Fragment of a Private Correspondence, Accidentally Discovered in Europe, Containing a Favorable View of the Manners, Literature, and State of Society of the United States, and a Refutation of Many of the Aspersions Cast Upon this Country by Former Residents and TouristsI. Riley, 1810 - 165 páginas |
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... inhabitants , re- posing under the shield of the mistress of the world , can be thus secure and happy , while hosts of ene- mies in vain environ and beset them . At such a moment I can chide my selfish misery , and almost wish I had not ...
... inhabitants , re- posing under the shield of the mistress of the world , can be thus secure and happy , while hosts of ene- mies in vain environ and beset them . At such a moment I can chide my selfish misery , and almost wish I had not ...
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... inhabitants of this country , who the settlers of it were two hundred years ago . But if this point were worth an inquiry , it might be shown that the vulgar opinion is as erroneous as it is absurd . states . tors . Without extending ...
... inhabitants of this country , who the settlers of it were two hundred years ago . But if this point were worth an inquiry , it might be shown that the vulgar opinion is as erroneous as it is absurd . states . tors . Without extending ...
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... inhabitants , which revolutionized England , and impressed upon that kingdom an ener- getic spirit of freedom and boldness of maritime ad- venture , that laid the groundwork of all its subse- quent greatness , sought vent in an ...
... inhabitants , which revolutionized England , and impressed upon that kingdom an ener- getic spirit of freedom and boldness of maritime ad- venture , that laid the groundwork of all its subse- quent greatness , sought vent in an ...
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... inhabitants of New England universally , with the yeomanry in general throughout the United States , are natives . 2. In point of origin the people of this country are less homogeneous than many others . But the pri- mary causes of ...
... inhabitants of New England universally , with the yeomanry in general throughout the United States , are natives . 2. In point of origin the people of this country are less homogeneous than many others . But the pri- mary causes of ...
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... inhabitants of the different states , while they differ somewhat in detail , essentially correspond , and coincide in principle : and it is rather from phy- sical than moral circumstances , that their diversities arise . That ...
... inhabitants of the different states , while they differ somewhat in detail , essentially correspond , and coincide in principle : and it is rather from phy- sical than moral circumstances , that their diversities arise . That ...
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Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States ... Charles Jared Ingersoll Visualização completa - 1810 |
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Página 106 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Página 115 - The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay : they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms ; and from them, collectively considered, must the measure of general prosperity be taken.
Página 145 - As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 67 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Página 107 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward.
Página 57 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Página 66 - How vain then, how idle, how presumptuous, is the opinion, that laws can do every thing ! and how weak and pernicious the maxim founded upon it, that measures, not men, are to be attended to...
Página 107 - Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves.
Página 54 - Representatives, had sauntered into the hall, and, were, with their attendants, sacrificing some impatient moments to the inscrutable mysteries of pleading. On the opposite side was a group of Indians, who are here on a visit to the President...