A Compendium of American LiteratureE. C. & J. Biddle, 1858 - 740 էջ |
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... look to her also for our intellectual aliment . And we did so . Not even forty years ago , the " Edinburgh Review " thus wrote : " Literature , the Americans have none ; no native literature we mean . * * But why should the Americans ...
... look to her also for our intellectual aliment . And we did so . Not even forty years ago , the " Edinburgh Review " thus wrote : " Literature , the Americans have none ; no native literature we mean . * * But why should the Americans ...
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... look at a Tartar en profile , I can hardly see the nose between the eyes , and if he blow a coal of fire , I cannot see the nose at all . The face is . then like an inflated bladder . The forehead is narrow and low . The face has a ...
... look at a Tartar en profile , I can hardly see the nose between the eyes , and if he blow a coal of fire , I cannot see the nose at all . The face is . then like an inflated bladder . The forehead is narrow and low . The face has a ...
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... Look out , good people ! that fellow would set you turning grindstones . When I see a man hoisted into office by party spirit , without a single qualification to render him either respectable or useful - alas ! methinks , deluded people ...
... Look out , good people ! that fellow would set you turning grindstones . When I see a man hoisted into office by party spirit , without a single qualification to render him either respectable or useful - alas ! methinks , deluded people ...
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... look with indulgence , if not with favor , upon the spirit of party ; but in those of the popular character , in governments purely elective , it is a spirit not to be encouraged . From their natural tendency , it is certain there will ...
... look with indulgence , if not with favor , upon the spirit of party ; but in those of the popular character , in governments purely elective , it is a spirit not to be encouraged . From their natural tendency , it is certain there will ...
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... look with affection and veneration to such a country as his parent ? The sense of having one would die within him ; he would blush for his patriotism , if he retained any , and justly , for it would be a vice . He would be a banished ...
... look with affection and veneration to such a country as his parent ? The sense of having one would die within him ; he would blush for his patriotism , if he retained any , and justly , for it would be a vice . He would be a banished ...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ... Charles Dexter Cleveland Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1859 |
A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ... Charles Dexter Cleveland Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1859 |
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Էջ 87 - 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.
Էջ 87 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Էջ 316 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Էջ 87 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that...
Էջ 88 - The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject...
Էջ 479 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
Էջ 355 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Էջ 351 - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Էջ 317 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Էջ 87 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.