Prose and Poetry of the Revolution: The Establishment of the NationFrederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson Thomas Y. Crowell, 1925 - 266 страници |
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... rise to the height of fifteen feet , so strong , and so full of limbs , as to resemble young trees ; I once ascended one of them four feet above the ground . These produce natural arbors , rendered often still more compact by the ...
... rise to the height of fifteen feet , so strong , and so full of limbs , as to resemble young trees ; I once ascended one of them four feet above the ground . These produce natural arbors , rendered often still more compact by the ...
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... rise , showers vainly descend , If we are to drudge for what others shall spend . Then join hand in hand , brave Americans all , By uniting we stand , by dividing we fall ; In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed , For heaven ...
... rise , showers vainly descend , If we are to drudge for what others shall spend . Then join hand in hand , brave Americans all , By uniting we stand , by dividing we fall ; In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed , For heaven ...
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... rise they have at length broken over at this spot , and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base . The piles of rock on each hand , but particularly on the Shenandoah , the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion ...
... rise they have at length broken over at this spot , and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base . The piles of rock on each hand , but particularly on the Shenandoah , the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion ...
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... rise at once , and one of them must descend ; and so quick is the revolution of things , that your lordship's per- formance , I see , has already fallen many degress from its first place , and is now just visible on the edge of the ...
... rise at once , and one of them must descend ; and so quick is the revolution of things , that your lordship's per- formance , I see , has already fallen many degress from its first place , and is now just visible on the edge of the ...
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... rise , Breaking like Ætna through the smoky columns , Lowering like Egypt o'er the burning city- Wantonly ruined.1 While all their hearts quick palpitate for havoc , Let slip your blood - hounds , named the British lions , Dauntless as ...
... rise , Breaking like Ætna through the smoky columns , Lowering like Egypt o'er the burning city- Wantonly ruined.1 While all their hearts quick palpitate for havoc , Let slip your blood - hounds , named the British lions , Dauntless as ...
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Страница 59 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Страница 68 - But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!
Страница 67 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir,...
Страница 60 - In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories; and to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.
Страница 72 - ... the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuitically adopted by the king and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.
Страница 73 - The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, Tis TIME TO PART.
Страница 65 - NO MAN thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope...
Страница 54 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Страница 226 - In spite of all the learned have said, I still my old opinion keep; The posture that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep. Not so the ancients of these lands — The Indian, when from life released, Again is seated with his friends, And shares again the joyous feast. His imaged birds, and painted bowl, And venison, for a journey dressed, Bespeak the nature of the soul, Activity that knows no rest.
Страница 77 - I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent.