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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... say I. For what has a being dedicated to academic shades , and attenuated with study , to do with the everlasting distractions of a fa- mily ? There are no more insurmountable barriers to literary attainments , than chubby children and ...
... say I. For what has a being dedicated to academic shades , and attenuated with study , to do with the everlasting distractions of a fa- mily ? There are no more insurmountable barriers to literary attainments , than chubby children and ...
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... say , has terminated in the removal of all my un- easiness , and my entire reconcilement to that most useful and ... says one of the most unimpeachable of French his- torical writers , these forced recruits led off in chains like ...
... say , has terminated in the removal of all my un- easiness , and my entire reconcilement to that most useful and ... says one of the most unimpeachable of French his- torical writers , these forced recruits led off in chains like ...
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... say another stock ; for , far from being new , it was procured at second hand , at a sale of the goods of some companion in distress , which were brought to the hammer by an execution . This accident caused us a great deal of vexation ...
... say another stock ; for , far from being new , it was procured at second hand , at a sale of the goods of some companion in distress , which were brought to the hammer by an execution . This accident caused us a great deal of vexation ...
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... say , the more I see and think , the fuller is my conviction , that this govern- ment , called republican , is not as popular as all go- vernments ought to be ; and instead of being ma- naged by the people , is too subservient to ...
... say , the more I see and think , the fuller is my conviction , that this govern- ment , called republican , is not as popular as all go- vernments ought to be ; and instead of being ma- naged by the people , is too subservient to ...
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... say , in a sick chamber , to which my disasters in this inhospitable country have confined me . For several days after my arrival here , I did not know I was in the city of Washington , the capital of America , which fact I have now ...
... say , in a sick chamber , to which my disasters in this inhospitable country have confined me . For several days after my arrival here , I did not know I was in the city of Washington , the capital of America , which fact I have now ...
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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.
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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.
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