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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... scenes and patriotic in its lesson . His prologue indicates his purpose : " Exult each patriot heart ! -this night is shown A piece , which we may fairly call our own , ” etc. The Contrast , written in three weeks and acted at xvi ...
... scenes and patriotic in its lesson . His prologue indicates his purpose : " Exult each patriot heart ! -this night is shown A piece , which we may fairly call our own , ” etc. The Contrast , written in three weeks and acted at xvi ...
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... scene . He is arrived on a new continent : a modern society offers itself to his contemplation , different from what he had hitherto seen . It is not composed , as in Europe , of great lords who possess everything , and of a herd of ...
... scene . He is arrived on a new continent : a modern society offers itself to his contemplation , different from what he had hitherto seen . It is not composed , as in Europe , of great lords who possess everything , and of a herd of ...
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... scene of sore affliction or pinching penury ; can that man call England or any other kingdom his country ? A country that had no bread for him ; whose fields procured him no harvest ; who met with nothing but the frowns of the rich ...
... scene of sore affliction or pinching penury ; can that man call England or any other kingdom his country ? A country that had no bread for him ; whose fields procured him no harvest ; who met with nothing but the frowns of the rich ...
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... scene ; their new pride , instead of leading them to the fields , has kept them in idleness ; the idea of possessing lands is all that satis- fies them ; though surrounded with fertility , they have mould- ered away their time in ...
... scene ; their new pride , instead of leading them to the fields , has kept them in idleness ; the idea of possessing lands is all that satis- fies them ; though surrounded with fertility , they have mould- ered away their time in ...
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... scene was uncommon and beautiful ; for , thus opposed , they fought with their jaws , biting each other with the utmost rage ; but , notwithstanding this appearance of mutual courage and fury , the water - snake still seemed desirous of ...
... scene was uncommon and beautiful ; for , thus opposed , they fought with their jaws , biting each other with the utmost rage ; but , notwithstanding this appearance of mutual courage and fury , the water - snake still seemed desirous of ...
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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.