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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... excellence of her manufactures and fabrics , second to none but ours , and in some particulars not second ; when I contemplate the grand foundations of charity , public and private ; when I survey the state of all the arts that beautify ...
... excellence of her manufactures and fabrics , second to none but ours , and in some particulars not second ; when I contemplate the grand foundations of charity , public and private ; when I survey the state of all the arts that beautify ...
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... excellence , were only forensic and political ora- That sublime species of moral eloquence , which is universal and everlasting , was first intro- duced by the evangelical law . * Cicero defends a client ; Demosthenes combats an ...
... excellence , were only forensic and political ora- That sublime species of moral eloquence , which is universal and everlasting , was first intro- duced by the evangelical law . * Cicero defends a client ; Demosthenes combats an ...
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... excellence so strong . In such a republic as that of the American states , an orator may be a perpetual dictator , for reasons very different from those which produced the same effect in the ancient commonwealths . In them the populace ...
... excellence so strong . In such a republic as that of the American states , an orator may be a perpetual dictator , for reasons very different from those which produced the same effect in the ancient commonwealths . In them the populace ...
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... excellence . As to the superstructure , whether it be that the author is not endowed with that fine phrensy , which is indispensable to the production of poetry of the first order , or whether it be that an overstrained sub- serviency ...
... excellence . As to the superstructure , whether it be that the author is not endowed with that fine phrensy , which is indispensable to the production of poetry of the first order , or whether it be that an overstrained sub- serviency ...
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... excellence of the ancients , and has sometimes been attempted with partial success by later poets . But the Columbiad teems with words that are unusual , technical , and unmusical , without any perceptible reason or apology for their ...
... excellence of the ancients , and has sometimes been attempted with partial success by later poets . But the Columbiad teems with words that are unusual , technical , and unmusical , without any perceptible reason or apology for their ...
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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...