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... character might come , from the philosophic crucible , all gold or all dross . But ex- perience avouches the historic truth . We have known in English annals , a man whose capacious mind em- braced all science . With a rare power of ...
... character might come , from the philosophic crucible , all gold or all dross . But ex- perience avouches the historic truth . We have known in English annals , a man whose capacious mind em- braced all science . With a rare power of ...
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... character , fre- quently render examples of one age and country inappli- cable to the circumstances of other countries and of other times . The ferocity of barbarians , and the perfi- dy of courtiers , become , indeed , more striking by ...
... character , fre- quently render examples of one age and country inappli- cable to the circumstances of other countries and of other times . The ferocity of barbarians , and the perfi- dy of courtiers , become , indeed , more striking by ...
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... characters taken from real life , and justly assign to each his actual agency . Let us , humble as we are , and ... character , its greatest elevation will be found in the present age . Our struggle , to defend and secure the rights ...
... characters taken from real life , and justly assign to each his actual agency . Let us , humble as we are , and ... character , its greatest elevation will be found in the present age . Our struggle , to defend and secure the rights ...
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... character . The wide field of research , which the history of this hemisphere opens to us , may indeed present to the phi- losophical , as well as to the antiquarian inquirer , many objects of more curiosity , and , perhaps , some of ...
... character . The wide field of research , which the history of this hemisphere opens to us , may indeed present to the phi- losophical , as well as to the antiquarian inquirer , many objects of more curiosity , and , perhaps , some of ...
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... characters , is rapidly fading from memo- ry ; and there is danger , lest to the next generation the names of Greene , and Marion , and Wayne - of Otis , Laurens , Rutlege , and Pendleton - of Dickinson , Sher- man , Ellsworth , and ...
... characters , is rapidly fading from memo- ry ; and there is danger , lest to the next generation the names of Greene , and Marion , and Wayne - of Otis , Laurens , Rutlege , and Pendleton - of Dickinson , Sher- man , Ellsworth , and ...
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Seite 71 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Seite 338 - Justice, and of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better advancement of Justice...
Seite 53 - Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Seite 101 - That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store : that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets. 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no decay : no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets.
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Seite 57 - ... violent storm, then blowing; the stone at length by its rapid motion became so intensely hot, as to fire the mill, from whence the flames, being dispersed by the high winds, did set a whole town on fire. But I can tell my reader that...
Seite 63 - They were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love.
Seite 114 - Indian scholars and missionaries; where he most exorbitantly proposes a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your Excellency's disposal.
Seite 31 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Seite 258 - Quiyoughcosughes, when they are dead, goe beyond the mountaines towards the setting of the sunne, and ever remaine there in forme of their Oke, with their heads painted with oile and pocones, finely trimmed with feathers, and shall have beades, hatchets, copper, and tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing, with all their predecessors,