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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Pagina 32
... probably one half are blacks ; and most of the remainder members of congress , clerks , servants , innkeepers , or in some way appurtenant to the government , prepared to fol- low its fortunes , if necessary , to the banks of the ...
... probably one half are blacks ; and most of the remainder members of congress , clerks , servants , innkeepers , or in some way appurtenant to the government , prepared to fol- low its fortunes , if necessary , to the banks of the ...
Pagina 56
... probably to higher grades of distinction than any of the Americans . † There are others in congress , in whose orations the smell of the camp is more perceptible ; but none to be considered models of fine speaking . Indeed to adopt ...
... probably to higher grades of distinction than any of the Americans . † There are others in congress , in whose orations the smell of the camp is more perceptible ; but none to be considered models of fine speaking . Indeed to adopt ...
Pagina 60
... probably very soon be reduced , unless new ones arise , to Chatham and Burke , and , perhaps , Sheridan . The few others who were eminent , were nothing better than adroit debaters ; and the great body of their public speakers , in ...
... probably very soon be reduced , unless new ones arise , to Chatham and Burke , and , perhaps , Sheridan . The few others who were eminent , were nothing better than adroit debaters ; and the great body of their public speakers , in ...
Pagina 69
... probably never was an exigency of this sort , when a time - serving abandonment was not more hazardous than an independent perseverance in the unpopular measures . In the relations of private life , Mr. Adams was al- ways amiable and ...
... probably never was an exigency of this sort , when a time - serving abandonment was not more hazardous than an independent perseverance in the unpopular measures . In the relations of private life , Mr. Adams was al- ways amiable and ...
Pagina 74
... probably no individual , without force , ever was en- throned in so predominant a personal influence . If Jefferson was the idolater , he was also the idol , of the people ; and even Washington , though more re vered , was not always ...
... probably no individual , without force , ever was en- throned in so predominant a personal influence . If Jefferson was the idolater , he was also the idol , of the people ; and even Washington , though more re vered , was not always ...
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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...