The Past, the Present, and the FutureH.C. Baird, 1859 - 474 էջ |
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Էջ 106 - Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, With hopes that but allure to fly, With joys that vanish while he sips, Like Dead Sea fruits that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips!
Էջ 236 - Elamites," flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions. The infinite superiority of the former, which I choose to designate as the great race, is discernible in their figure, port, and a certain instinctive sovereignty. The latter are born degraded.
Էջ 74 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Էջ 62 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Էջ 301 - On the British side of the line, with the exception of a few favoured spots, where some approach to American prosperity is apparent, all seems waste and desolate.
Էջ 236 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, " Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites,'" flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions.
Էջ 128 - There are no limits to the bounty of nature! in manufactures, but there are limits, and those not very remote, to her bounty in agriculture. The greatest possible amount of capital might...
Էջ 248 - To the desire of rising in the world, implanted in the breast of every individual, an increase of taxation superadds the fear of being cast down to a lower station, of being deprived of conveniences and gratifications which habit has rendered all but indispensable ; and the combined influence of the two principles produces results that could not be produced by the unassisted agency of either.
Էջ 230 - The citizen of the United States is taught from infancy to rely upon his own exertions in order to resist the evils and the difficulties of life; he looks upon the social authority with an eye of mistrust and anxiety, and he claims its assistance only when he is unable to do without it.
Էջ 229 - Everything is in motion around you; here the people of one quarter of a town are met to decide upon the building of a church; there the election of a representative is going on; a little...