Holland, the Birthplace of American Political, Civil and Religious Liberty: An Historical EssayP. Elder, 1915 - 89 Seiten |
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Seite 71 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.
Seite 39 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Seite 39 - HOLLAND, that scarce deserves the name of land As but the off-scouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead, Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell, — This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.
Seite 59 - It was a land where every child went to school, where almost every individual inhabitant could read and write, where even the middle classes were proficients in mathematics and the classics, and could speak two or more modern languages...
Seite 71 - These little republics would be the main strength of the great one. We owe to them the vigor given to our revolution in its commencement in the Eastern States...
Seite 20 - ... all be reached at once, and possibly some of them are innocuous. We have restored to woman the management of her own estate, and her right to contract for herself, which was secured to her by the Roman Law and denied by the Common Law of England. We have repudiated and utterly rejected the barbarous and inhuman penal branch of the Common Law, and have legislated on the subject independently of the rigid demands of Feudalism and more in accord with the more reasonable regulations of the Code of...
Seite 61 - You would think, being with them, you were in old Israel, for you find not a beggar among them. Nor are they mindful of their own alone ; but strangers also partake of their care and bounty. If they will depart, they have money for their convoy. If they stay, they have work provided. If unable, they find a hospital.
Seite 39 - Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away, Or than those pills which sordid beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul.
Seite 18 - I thank God there are no free schools or printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought heresy and disobedience and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
Seite 62 - The depravation of manners they punish with contempt, but the defects of nature they favor with charity. Even their Bedlam is a place so curious, that a lord might live in it. Their hospital might lodge a lady. So that safely you may conclude, amongst them even poverty and madness do both inhabit handsomely. And though vice makes...