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 28
... prosperity of Great Britain , whose inhabitants , re- posing under the shield of the mistress of the world , can be thus secure and happy , while hosts of ene- mies in vain environ and beset them . At such a moment I can chide my ...
... prosperity of Great Britain , whose inhabitants , re- posing under the shield of the mistress of the world , can be thus secure and happy , while hosts of ene- mies in vain environ and beset them . At such a moment I can chide my ...
Pagina 31
... prosperous auspices ; and it is the only part of the Uni- ted States of America I have ever seen on the decline . Commenced on a huge , unwieldy scale , in a district occupied by slave - holders , without the habits of in- dustry or the ...
... prosperous auspices ; and it is the only part of the Uni- ted States of America I have ever seen on the decline . Commenced on a huge , unwieldy scale , in a district occupied by slave - holders , without the habits of in- dustry or the ...
Pagina 59
... prosperity . Their pulpit is learned , di- dactic , but phlegmatic , and never eloquent ; their bar almost universally addicted , as Sir James Macin- tosh has observed , to a bad style , and ungraceful elocution ; and in parliament a ...
... prosperity . Their pulpit is learned , di- dactic , but phlegmatic , and never eloquent ; their bar almost universally addicted , as Sir James Macin- tosh has observed , to a bad style , and ungraceful elocution ; and in parliament a ...
Pagina 65
... prosperity he had created , to exclaim , Hæ sunt meæ imagines , hæc nobilitas , non hereditate relicta , sed quæ ego plurimis laboribus et periculis quæsivi . * * The ancients would have deified such an individual as Washington , and ...
... prosperity he had created , to exclaim , Hæ sunt meæ imagines , hæc nobilitas , non hereditate relicta , sed quæ ego plurimis laboribus et periculis quæsivi . * * The ancients would have deified such an individual as Washington , and ...
Pagina 76
... prosperous . It remains for a few years to come to pass judgment on its wisdom . Proba- bly it will be least approved where he seemed anxious it should be most , in its rudest democratic features ; inasmuch as all extremes endanger the ...
... prosperous . It remains for a few years to come to pass judgment on its wisdom . Proba- bly it will be least approved where he seemed anxious it should be most , in its rudest democratic features ; inasmuch as all extremes endanger the ...
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