Retrospections of America, 1797-1811Harper & Brothers, 1886 - 380 pàgines |
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Retrospections of America, 1797-1811 John Bernard,Laurence Hutton,Brander Matthews Visualització completa - 1887 |
Retrospections of America, 1797-1811 John Bernard,Laurence Hutton,Brander Matthews Visualització de fragments - 1887 |
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Pàgina 164 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Pàgina 79 - Neighbours, the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God...
Pàgina 89 - ... expected from me; but the strongest characteristic of this respectable man is the perfect union which reigns between the physical and moral qualities which compose the individual, one alone will enable you to judge of all the rest. If you are presented with medals of...
Pàgina 87 - He was a tall, erect, well-made man, evidently advanced in years, but who appeared to have retained all the vigor and elasticity resulting from a life of temperance and exercise. His dress was a blue coat buttoned to his chin and buckskin breeches.
Pàgina 270 - Kings Arms Tavern— Newport Rhode Island On Monday, June 10th, at the Public Room of the Above Inn will be delivered a series of MORAL DIALOGUES IN FIVE PARTS Depicting the Evil Effects of Jealousy and other Bad Passions, and Proving that Happiness can only Spring from the Pursuit of Virtue.
Pàgina 85 - Howard, the chancellor, Judge Kelly, Governor Stone, General Davidson, and last, not least, the excellent Mr. Carroll, one of the subscribers to the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps the latter, as much as any man, was an illustration of my remarks. From the refinement of his manners, a stranger would have surmised that he had passed all his days in the salons of Paris. He had all that suavity and softness, in combination with dignity, which bespeak the perfection of good taste. This attested...
Pàgina 90 - Yes, yes, Mr. Bernard, but I consider your country the cradle of free principles, not their armchair. Liberty in England is a sort of idol; people are bred up in the belief and love of it, but see little of its doings. They walk about freely, but then it is between high walls; and the error of its government was in supposing that after a portion of their subjects had crossed the sea to live upon a common, they would permit their friends at home to build up those walls about them.
Pàgina 270 - MR. MORRIS — Will represent an old gentleman, the father of Desdemona, who is not cruel or covetous, but is foolish enough to dislike the noble Moor, his son-in-law, because his face is not white, forgetting that we all spring from one root. Such prejudices are very numerous...
Pàgina 87 - Mount Vernon!" I exclaimed; and then, drawing back, with a stare of wonder, 'Have I the honor of addressing General Washington?
Pàgina 89 - Whether you surveyed his face, open yet well-defined, dignified but not arrogant, thoughtful but benign; his frame, towering and muscular, but alert from its good proportion — every feature suggested a resemblance to the spirit it encased, and showed simplicity in alliance with the sublime. The impression, therefore, was that of a most perfect whole; and though the effect of proportion is said to be to reduce the idea of magnitude, you could not but think you looked upon a wonder, and something...