Prose Writers of America: A Collection of Eloquent and Interesting Extracts from the Writings of American AuthorsLeavitt, 1855 - 468 Seiten |
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... thing which came from him . There was nothing which made any demand either upon your allegiance or your admiration . His manner was as unaffected as infancy . It was na- ture's self . He talked like an old patriarch ; and his plain ...
... thing which came from him . There was nothing which made any demand either upon your allegiance or your admiration . His manner was as unaffected as infancy . It was na- ture's self . He talked like an old patriarch ; and his plain ...
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... thing that is kind , and peaceful , and happy , and its halls are ready to become the haunts of outlaws and assassins . Nor are his more tender and affectionate passages those to which we can yield ourselves without a feeling of ...
... thing that is kind , and peaceful , and happy , and its halls are ready to become the haunts of outlaws and assassins . Nor are his more tender and affectionate passages those to which we can yield ourselves without a feeling of ...
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... thing becomes silent on the shore , which our windows overlook , and the murmurs of the broad St. Lawrence , more than two miles wide immediately before us , and , a little way to the right , spreading to five or six miles in breadth ...
... thing becomes silent on the shore , which our windows overlook , and the murmurs of the broad St. Lawrence , more than two miles wide immediately before us , and , a little way to the right , spreading to five or six miles in breadth ...
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... thing to learn but the mechanical execution of what lies in sensible forms before the eye . But the extempore speak- er , who is to invent as well as to utter , to carry on an opera- tion of the mind as well as to produce sound , enters ...
... thing to learn but the mechanical execution of what lies in sensible forms before the eye . But the extempore speak- er , who is to invent as well as to utter , to carry on an opera- tion of the mind as well as to produce sound , enters ...
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... thing human , causes This piece is extracted from " Observations on the Boston Port Bill , " first published in 1774 , and recently reprinted in connexion with the Life of Mr. Quincy , by his son.-ED. them to consider the Lord of Hosts ...
... thing human , causes This piece is extracted from " Observations on the Boston Port Bill , " first published in 1774 , and recently reprinted in connexion with the Life of Mr. Quincy , by his son.-ED. them to consider the Lord of Hosts ...
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Seite 70 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Seite 174 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Seite 172 - ... agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging, in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected.
Seite 162 - We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If -it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.
Seite 259 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Seite 71 - 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 I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Seite 161 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Seite 172 - ... and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services, faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our...
Seite 162 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured, that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven.
Seite 174 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world. To myself, the assurance of my own conscience is, that I have at least believed myself to be guided by them.