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... strange ideals , but assimilating them thoroughly . Comparative criticism has yet to show how extensive the process of absorption and assimilation has been with us ; but it is plain , even to the superficial observer , that whatever may ...
... strange ideals , but assimilating them thoroughly . Comparative criticism has yet to show how extensive the process of absorption and assimilation has been with us ; but it is plain , even to the superficial observer , that whatever may ...
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... strange sweetness in her mind , and singular purity in her affections ; is most just and conscientious in all her conduct ; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful , if you would give her all the world , lest she ...
... strange sweetness in her mind , and singular purity in her affections ; is most just and conscientious in all her conduct ; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful , if you would give her all the world , lest she ...
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... strange mathemat- ical paradoxes , about infinitely great and small quantities ; as , that some infinitely great quantities are infinitely greater than some other infinitely great quantities ; and also that some infinitely small ...
... strange mathemat- ical paradoxes , about infinitely great and small quantities ; as , that some infinitely great quantities are infinitely greater than some other infinitely great quantities ; and also that some infinitely small ...
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... strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated . Britain , with an army to enforce her tyranny , has declared that she has a right ( not only to TAX ) but " to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER , ” and if ...
... strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated . Britain , with an army to enforce her tyranny , has declared that she has a right ( not only to TAX ) but " to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER , ” and if ...
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... strange a pretension : that these were effected at the expence of our own blood and treasure , unassisted by the wealth or strength of Great Britain : that in constituting indeed our several forms of government , we had adopted a common ...
... strange a pretension : that these were effected at the expence of our own blood and treasure , unassisted by the wealth or strength of Great Britain : that in constituting indeed our several forms of government , we had adopted a common ...
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Seite 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Seite 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Seite 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Seite 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Seite 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Seite 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Seite 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Seite 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Seite 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.