Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802T. Ostell, 1803 - 454 من الصفحات |
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... Heart dancing to the Song of Expectation - I mingle at Philadelphia with the Votaries of Taste ; and am elbowed by Poets and Prose - Writers , Critics and Philosophers- I proceed to Washington - Interview with the Secretary of the ...
... Heart dancing to the Song of Expectation - I mingle at Philadelphia with the Votaries of Taste ; and am elbowed by Poets and Prose - Writers , Critics and Philosophers- I proceed to Washington - Interview with the Secretary of the ...
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... heart . On the 8th of March , we saw the Isles of Sile , and three days after weathered the breakers of Nantucket ; from whence , coasting to the southward , we made Long Island , and ran up to Sandy Hook . The wind subsiding , we let ...
... heart . On the 8th of March , we saw the Isles of Sile , and three days after weathered the breakers of Nantucket ; from whence , coasting to the southward , we made Long Island , and ran up to Sandy Hook . The wind subsiding , we let ...
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... heart , he might have withheld Elizabeth from plunging into the vale of misery ; he would have sounded in her ears the holy admonition , Return and live , for why wilt thou die ! To the memory of these unfortunate lovers I wrote an ...
... heart , he might have withheld Elizabeth from plunging into the vale of misery ; he would have sounded in her ears the holy admonition , Return and live , for why wilt thou die ! To the memory of these unfortunate lovers I wrote an ...
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... heart ? Could not the weeping eye a grief impart ? Could not ELIZA's voice thy pity move ; But , must her choice thy furious lips reprove ? Oh ! when thy eyes death's horrid form shall meet , And when thy hearse moves slowly through the ...
... heart ? Could not the weeping eye a grief impart ? Could not ELIZA's voice thy pity move ; But , must her choice thy furious lips reprove ? Oh ! when thy eyes death's horrid form shall meet , And when thy hearse moves slowly through the ...
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... heart . Ah ! Pope was a pretty poet ; my wife is very fond of Pope . * The term drive , requires some little note explanatory to the English reader . No man forgets his original trade . An Overseer on a Plantation , who preserves ...
... heart . Ah ! Pope was a pretty poet ; my wife is very fond of Pope . * The term drive , requires some little note explanatory to the English reader . No man forgets his original trade . An Overseer on a Plantation , who preserves ...
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الصفحة 292 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country 1 rejoice at the beams of peace.
الصفحة 179 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it...
الصفحة 177 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
الصفحة 214 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
الصفحة 177 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the constitution all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
الصفحة 178 - But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
الصفحة 177 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind; let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
الصفحة 179 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
الصفحة 210 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
الصفحة 211 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was. He replied, 'I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.