Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States of America: Being a Fragment of a Private Correspondence, Accidentally Discovered in Europe, Containing a Favorable View of the Manners, Literature, and State of Society of the United States, and a Refutation of Many of the Aspersions Cast Upon this Country by Former Residents and TouristsI. Riley, 1810 - 165 pagine |
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... , and State of Society of the United States, and a Refutation of Many of the Aspersions Cast Upon this Country by Former Charles Jared Ingersoll. LID INGER FOLL INCHIQUIN , THE JESUIT'S LETTERS , DURING A LATE RESIDENCE.
... , and State of Society of the United States, and a Refutation of Many of the Aspersions Cast Upon this Country by Former Charles Jared Ingersoll. LID INGER FOLL INCHIQUIN , THE JESUIT'S LETTERS , DURING A LATE RESIDENCE.
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... of the Manners, Literature, and State of Society, of the United States, and a Refutation of Many of the Aspersions Cast Upon this Country, by Form Charles Jared Ingersoll. 1 INCHIQUIN , THE JESUIT'S LETTERS , DURING A LATE RESIDENCE.
... of the Manners, Literature, and State of Society, of the United States, and a Refutation of Many of the Aspersions Cast Upon this Country, by Form Charles Jared Ingersoll. 1 INCHIQUIN , THE JESUIT'S LETTERS , DURING A LATE RESIDENCE.
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... LATE RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : BEING A FRAGMENT OF A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE , ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED IN EUROPE ; CONTAINING A FAVOURABLE VIEW OF THE MANNERS , LITERA- TURE , AND STATE OF SOCIETY , OF THE UNITED STATES ...
... LATE RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : BEING A FRAGMENT OF A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE , ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED IN EUROPE ; CONTAINING A FAVOURABLE VIEW OF THE MANNERS , LITERA- TURE , AND STATE OF SOCIETY , OF THE UNITED STATES ...
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... late residence in the United " States of America : being a fragment of a private correspondence , acci- " dentally discovered in Europe ; containing a favourable view of the 66 manners , literature , and state of society , of the United ...
... late residence in the United " States of America : being a fragment of a private correspondence , acci- " dentally discovered in Europe ; containing a favourable view of the 66 manners , literature , and state of society , of the United ...
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Pagina 106 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Pagina 115 - The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay : they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms ; and from them, collectively considered, must the measure of general prosperity be taken.
Pagina 145 - As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Pagina 67 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Pagina 107 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward.
Pagina 57 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Pagina 66 - How vain then, how idle, how presumptuous, is the opinion, that laws can do every thing ! and how weak and pernicious the maxim founded upon it, that measures, not men, are to be attended to...
Pagina 107 - Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves.
Pagina 54 - Representatives, had sauntered into the hall, and, were, with their attendants, sacrificing some impatient moments to the inscrutable mysteries of pleading. On the opposite side was a group of Indians, who are here on a visit to the President...