Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 страници |
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... slavery hovers over the Decline and Fall . Fancy a stiffly dressed gentleman , in a stiff chair , slowly writing that stiff compilation in a stiff hand ; it is enough to stiffen you for life . " - It is devoutly to be wished that we ...
... slavery hovers over the Decline and Fall . Fancy a stiffly dressed gentleman , in a stiff chair , slowly writing that stiff compilation in a stiff hand ; it is enough to stiffen you for life . " - It is devoutly to be wished that we ...
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... slavery . " Does not your blood stir at these pas- sages ? And is it not because , besides loving what is nobly written , you feel that every word strikes towards the heart of the things that have made your blood what it has proved to ...
... slavery . " Does not your blood stir at these pas- sages ? And is it not because , besides loving what is nobly written , you feel that every word strikes towards the heart of the things that have made your blood what it has proved to ...
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... slavery ; he would have secured it once more , and speedily if possible , in its right to self - government , when the fight was fought out . To the Eastern politicians he seemed like an accident ; but to his- tory he must seem like a ...
... slavery ; he would have secured it once more , and speedily if possible , in its right to self - government , when the fight was fought out . To the Eastern politicians he seemed like an accident ; but to his- tory he must seem like a ...
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... Slavery within the States of the Union stood sufficiently protected by every solemn sanction the Constitution could ... slavery or no slavery ? -a new choice for every new State : a fresh act of origination to go 238 THE COURSE OF ...
... Slavery within the States of the Union stood sufficiently protected by every solemn sanction the Constitution could ... slavery or no slavery ? -a new choice for every new State : a fresh act of origination to go 238 THE COURSE OF ...
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... slavery question , except by revolution and contempt of fundamental law . But with a continent to be peo- pled , the choice thrust itself insistently forward at every step and upon every hand . This was the slavery question : not what ...
... slavery question , except by revolution and contempt of fundamental law . But with a continent to be peo- pled , the choice thrust itself insistently forward at every step and upon every hand . This was the slavery question : not what ...
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Страница 240 - He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Страница 143 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Страница 147 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Страница 148 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Страница 153 - We see that the parts of the system do not clash. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. One advantage is as little as possible sacrificed to another. We compensate, we reconcile, we balance. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. From hence arises, not an excellence in simplicity, but, one far superior, an excellence in composition.
Страница 106 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Страница 147 - Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire by a unity of spirit, though in a diversity of operations, that, if I were sure the colonists had, at their leaving this country, sealed a regular compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their posterity to all generations, yet I should hold myself obliged to conform to the temper I found...
Страница 146 - I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict; and still less in the midst of it. I may escape ; but I can make no insurance against such an event. Let me add, that I do not choose wholly to break the American spirit; because it is the spirit that has made the country.
Страница 146 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Страница 133 - Now we who know Mr. Burke, know, that he will be one of the first men in the country.