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 страници |
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... ignorant and sordid masters , absorbed in trade and republicanism , who seem to know and desire no dis- tinctions , but such as are to be earned with the sweat of their brows , I desire to hear as little as possible . For I never could ...
... ignorant and sordid masters , absorbed in trade and republicanism , who seem to know and desire no dis- tinctions , but such as are to be earned with the sweat of their brows , I desire to hear as little as possible . For I never could ...
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... ignorant government is idly engaged in framing laws for an uncivilized and heterogeneous population . After all , the lion is the noblest beast . Let France and Russia , with their tributary potentates , conspire against him , and the ...
... ignorant government is idly engaged in framing laws for an uncivilized and heterogeneous population . After all , the lion is the noblest beast . Let France and Russia , with their tributary potentates , conspire against him , and the ...
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... ignorance of mankind , and indeed of every thing , except half a dozen different lan- guages that seem to be equally familiar to him , he commonly marches straight forward on his conclu- sions , and seizes them by storm , without the ...
... ignorance of mankind , and indeed of every thing , except half a dozen different lan- guages that seem to be equally familiar to him , he commonly marches straight forward on his conclu- sions , and seizes them by storm , without the ...
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... ignorance ; here the peo- ple may be roused through their universal intelligence . A fertile and solid memory ; not that which retains words , but in which ideas are classed , as it were , in a great repository , waiting the orders of ...
... ignorance ; here the peo- ple may be roused through their universal intelligence . A fertile and solid memory ; not that which retains words , but in which ideas are classed , as it were , in a great repository , waiting the orders of ...
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... ignorant and turbulent ; but their proportion in the community is not considerable , and the inhabitants of New England universally , with the yeomanry in general throughout the United States , are natives . 2. In point of origin the ...
... ignorant and turbulent ; but their proportion in the community is not considerable , and the inhabitants of New England universally , with the yeomanry in general throughout the United States , are natives . 2. In point of origin the ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 67 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...