American Quarterly Review, Том 1Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827 |
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... person in America had read so much as he and it is recorded in his diary , that in one year he preached seventy - two sermons , kept sixty fasts , and twenty vigils , and wrote fourteen books . His pulpit discourses were VOL . I.-No. 1 ...
... person in America had read so much as he and it is recorded in his diary , that in one year he preached seventy - two sermons , kept sixty fasts , and twenty vigils , and wrote fourteen books . His pulpit discourses were VOL . I.-No. 1 ...
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... person , it is impossible to restrain our admiration , not only of the clearness and precision of his memory , at the age of eighty , but the sublime tranquillity of his spirit , which discoursed of mortality as if he had passed its ...
... person , it is impossible to restrain our admiration , not only of the clearness and precision of his memory , at the age of eighty , but the sublime tranquillity of his spirit , which discoursed of mortality as if he had passed its ...
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... person in a more satisfactory manner , than it had been before done , to our knowledge . The physical , harmonized with the intellectual and moral being . In the prime of life , his height was six feet two inches ; his average weight ...
... person in a more satisfactory manner , than it had been before done , to our knowledge . The physical , harmonized with the intellectual and moral being . In the prime of life , his height was six feet two inches ; his average weight ...
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... persons . I have heard him , in describing the state of the country , at that time , say , that the deer often crossed his path , and that he had seen the beaver at work . In these times of simplicity , books were very scarce , so that ...
... persons . I have heard him , in describing the state of the country , at that time , say , that the deer often crossed his path , and that he had seen the beaver at work . In these times of simplicity , books were very scarce , so that ...
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... person deputed to inform the excellent Washington of his nomination to the Presidency . He accordingly waited on him at Mount Vernon , and attended him in his journey to assume the reins of government . Washington wished much to retain ...
... person deputed to inform the excellent Washington of his nomination to the Presidency . He accordingly waited on him at Mount Vernon , and attended him in his journey to assume the reins of government . Washington wished much to retain ...
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Страница 61 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Страница 61 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every...
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Страница 398 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Страница 63 - If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path. WASHINGTON is in the clear upper sky.
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