Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Band 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 |
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... ment . Other circumstances some of them incidents of this state of things - exerted a powerful influence in the same direction . Such were the fusion of the old political parties that commenced soon after the peace of 1815 ; the ...
... ment . Other circumstances some of them incidents of this state of things - exerted a powerful influence in the same direction . Such were the fusion of the old political parties that commenced soon after the peace of 1815 ; the ...
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... ment of a system of popular and constitutional liberty , the greater , the assurance that the universal mind of the country will be powerfully and genially excited . " L I am aware that it is a common notion , that , under an elective ...
... ment of a system of popular and constitutional liberty , the greater , the assurance that the universal mind of the country will be powerfully and genially excited . " L I am aware that it is a common notion , that , under an elective ...
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... ment , another objection is taken to its influence , as far as literary progress is concerned . It is urged , that , though it may be the effect of our system to excite the mind of the people , it excites it too much in a political ...
... ment , another objection is taken to its influence , as far as literary progress is concerned . It is urged , that , though it may be the effect of our system to excite the mind of the people , it excites it too much in a political ...
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... called a strong govern- ment . It may be safely left to the impartial judgment of mankind , to compare the progress , either of general intelli- VOL . I. - 3 gence , or of higher literature , in those portions AMERICAN LITERATURE . 17.
... called a strong govern- ment . It may be safely left to the impartial judgment of mankind , to compare the progress , either of general intelli- VOL . I. - 3 gence , or of higher literature , in those portions AMERICAN LITERATURE . 17.
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... ment and war are the only callings worthy of noble blood . In those foreign countries , as England , where the political institutions have been most improved , and the iron yoke of feudalism most effectually broken , — that is , in ...
... ment and war are the only callings worthy of noble blood . In those foreign countries , as England , where the political institutions have been most improved , and the iron yoke of feudalism most effectually broken , — that is , in ...
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Seite 30 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Seite 41 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 167 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Seite 583 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Seite 381 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Seite 622 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Seite 213 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Seite 427 - That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.
Seite 390 - She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there...
Seite 68 - Was it the winter's storm beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ? Was it hard labor and spare meals ? Was it disease ? Was it the tomahawk?