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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... least three . Porriget hora . During part of the time , the emperor was gone to the wars ; and we endeavoured to amuse ourselves as well as we could in his good city , during his august absence . Since his return , there has been ...
... least three . Porriget hora . During part of the time , the emperor was gone to the wars ; and we endeavoured to amuse ourselves as well as we could in his good city , during his august absence . Since his return , there has been ...
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... least the civilized por- tions of the earth should speak the same language , I cannot consider it an unreasonable requisition of the Americans to adopt French as their vernacular . Do you believe the opposition to this change would be ...
... least the civilized por- tions of the earth should speak the same language , I cannot consider it an unreasonable requisition of the Americans to adopt French as their vernacular . Do you believe the opposition to this change would be ...
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... least I think so , to have been brought up at St. Omer's , where you imbibed pre- possessions uncongenial with the habits and course of life , to which from your birth and fortune you were destined . You will do me the justice to admit ...
... least I think so , to have been brought up at St. Omer's , where you imbibed pre- possessions uncongenial with the habits and course of life , to which from your birth and fortune you were destined . You will do me the justice to admit ...
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... least you might enjoy those social recreations to which you are accustomed , to wander in the wilds of Ame- rica , where you must relinquish every such enjoy . ment ? Your letter is silent respecting the motives for your voyage , which ...
... least you might enjoy those social recreations to which you are accustomed , to wander in the wilds of Ame- rica , where you must relinquish every such enjoy . ment ? Your letter is silent respecting the motives for your voyage , which ...
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... least , if not contented , I have taken and furnished , in the homeliest style , a small house in Shugg Lane , where your sister has lately lain in with our fifth daughter , two of whom ( I may almost thank God ! ) have been removed ...
... least , if not contented , I have taken and furnished , in the homeliest style , a small house in Shugg Lane , where your sister has lately lain in with our fifth daughter , two of whom ( I may almost thank God ! ) have been removed ...
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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...