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 Seiten |
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... England , I cannot wish for their restoration to the power which they abused . It was not to be expected that the French , when once engaged in foreign wars , should not en- deavour to spread destruction around them , and to form plans ...
... England , I cannot wish for their restoration to the power which they abused . It was not to be expected that the French , when once engaged in foreign wars , should not en- deavour to spread destruction around them , and to form plans ...
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... by the gratification I feel in pouring forth my feel- ings to you . If you will not come and live with us in England , I am afraid we must go and die with you in America . LETTER IV . FROM INCHIQUIN TO PHARAMOND . Dated at 29.
... by the gratification I feel in pouring forth my feel- ings to you . If you will not come and live with us in England , I am afraid we must go and die with you in America . LETTER IV . FROM INCHIQUIN TO PHARAMOND . Dated at 29.
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... England ; and that such as have , were reserved for the present age of peace and prosperity . Their pulpit is learned , di- dactic , but phlegmatic , and never eloquent ; their bar almost universally addicted , as Sir James Macin- tosh ...
... England ; and that such as have , were reserved for the present age of peace and prosperity . Their pulpit is learned , di- dactic , but phlegmatic , and never eloquent ; their bar almost universally addicted , as Sir James Macin- tosh ...
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... England will probably very soon be reduced , unless new ones arise , to Chatham and Burke , and , perhaps , Sheridan . The few others who were eminent , were nothing better than adroit debaters ; and the great body of their public ...
... England will probably very soon be reduced , unless new ones arise , to Chatham and Burke , and , perhaps , Sheridan . The few others who were eminent , were nothing better than adroit debaters ; and the great body of their public ...
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... England , the presidency devolved upon him after Washington's retirement , as it were , rather as a matter of routine and reward , than on account of his superior fitness for the situation . No - man can be great , who is not greater ...
... England , the presidency devolved upon him after Washington's retirement , as it were , rather as a matter of routine and reward , than on account of his superior fitness for the situation . No - man can be great , who is not greater ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 67 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...