The Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen. Embellished with Six EngravingsJ. Allen, 1837 - 228 էջ |
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... look for the Private life is always real life . Behind the curtain , where the eyes of the million are not upon him , and where a man can have no motive but incli- nation , no incitement but honest nature , there he will always be sure ...
... look for the Private life is always real life . Behind the curtain , where the eyes of the million are not upon him , and where a man can have no motive but incli- nation , no incitement but honest nature , there he will always be sure ...
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... look for the whale , " the biggest born of nature ? " not , I trow , in a mill - pond , but in the main ocean . " There go the great ships and there are the spoutings of whales amidst their boiling foam . By the same rule , where shall ...
... look for the whale , " the biggest born of nature ? " not , I trow , in a mill - pond , but in the main ocean . " There go the great ships and there are the spoutings of whales amidst their boiling foam . By the same rule , where shall ...
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... look up , my son , continued his father , look up , George ! and see there how rich- ly the blessed God has made good my promise to you . Wherever you turn your eyes , you see the trees load ed with fine fruit ; many of them indeed ...
... look up , my son , continued his father , look up , George ! and see there how rich- ly the blessed God has made good my promise to you . Wherever you turn your eyes , you see the trees load ed with fine fruit ; many of them indeed ...
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Mason Locke Weems. ( SOME , when they look up to the oak , whose giant arms throw a darkning shade over distant acres , or whose single trunk lays the keel of a man of war , cannot bear to hear of the time when this mighty plant was but ...
Mason Locke Weems. ( SOME , when they look up to the oak , whose giant arms throw a darkning shade over distant acres , or whose single trunk lays the keel of a man of war , cannot bear to hear of the time when this mighty plant was but ...
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... look at every thing around him , see ! what fine eyes he has got ! and a little pug nose to smell she sweet flowers ... looks down into the water , there he sees the beautiful silver fishes for him ! and up in the trees there are the ...
... look at every thing around him , see ! what fine eyes he has got ! and a little pug nose to smell she sweet flowers ... looks down into the water , there he sees the beautiful silver fishes for him ! and up in the trees there are the ...
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The Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to ... Mason Locke Weems Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1837 |
The Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to ... Mason Locke Weems Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1837 |
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Էջ 146 - It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth : as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of...
Էջ 146 - Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Էջ 152 - This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled...
Էջ 155 - 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 151 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Էջ 186 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Էջ 158 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Էջ 156 - In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded, and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Էջ 158 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Էջ 157 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.