Washington's Birthday: Its History, Observance, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and VerseRobert Haven Schauffler Moffat, Yard, 1910 - 328 ページ Poems, essays, et cetera by Oliver Wendell Holmes and others. |
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... friends of American In- dependence and Constitutional Liberty with that hilarity and manly decorum ever attendant on the Sons of Freedom . In the evening an entertainment was given on board the East India ship in this har- bor to a very ...
... friends of American In- dependence and Constitutional Liberty with that hilarity and manly decorum ever attendant on the Sons of Freedom . In the evening an entertainment was given on board the East India ship in this har- bor to a very ...
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... friends and patrons of virtue and freedom fr Tammany to Washington . II . The birth of the present National ... friendship d the joyous occasion , the society adjourned with the usual order and harmony . ' " In Washington ever since the ...
... friends and patrons of virtue and freedom fr Tammany to Washington . II . The birth of the present National ... friendship d the joyous occasion , the society adjourned with the usual order and harmony . ' " In Washington ever since the ...
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... till every day in the year shall have smiled on Columbia with the birth of a Washington . Our Unfortunate Friend the Marquis de Lafayette - May xxii INTRODUCTION America become shortly his asylum from indignity an INTRODUCTION xxi.
... till every day in the year shall have smiled on Columbia with the birth of a Washington . Our Unfortunate Friend the Marquis de Lafayette - May xxii INTRODUCTION America become shortly his asylum from indignity an INTRODUCTION xxi.
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... friend- ship which ought ever to characterize the intercourse of fellow - citizens and gentlemen . ' " Balls and banquets , it will be seen , were the chief methods employed in celebrating the day , and there was hardly a town so small ...
... friend- ship which ought ever to characterize the intercourse of fellow - citizens and gentlemen . ' " Balls and banquets , it will be seen , were the chief methods employed in celebrating the day , and there was hardly a town so small ...
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... friends at their girdle . The year his brother was born , John Maynard's ship had sailed up the James River with the bloody head of Blackbeard hanging , to the bowsprit . He had only one uncle , a brother Lawrence , and a cousin ...
... friends at their girdle . The year his brother was born , John Maynard's ship had sailed up the James River with the bloody head of Blackbeard hanging , to the bowsprit . He had only one uncle , a brother Lawrence , and a cousin ...
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admiration American army battle blessings Braddock's brave breath called cause celebration character CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM chief citizens College Colonel command conduct Congress Constitution Continental Congress country's countrymen crown duty exalted fame Father February 22 fire foreign Fort Duquesne freedom French French Revolution friends genius Gentlemen George Fisher George Washington glory hand happiness heart hero honor hope House human illustrious immortal independence ington interest James River John Adams justice land Lawrence Washington letters liberty live mankind memory ment military mind moral Mount Vernon name of Washington nation never occasion officers Owen Wister party patriot peace Philadelphia political President principles retired Revolution ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Sachem schools Senate sentiment smile soldiers spirit sublime sword thou thought tion true trust Union United victory Virginia virtue voice Wash WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY whole wisdom York
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295 ページ - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
294 ページ - As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace; but remembering also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace, to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars...
288 ページ - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
294 ページ - ... the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies...
294 ページ - To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue ; that to have revenue there must be taxes ; that no taxes can be devised...
292 ページ - A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern : some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve...
126 ページ - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
177 ページ - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
281 ページ - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
296 ページ - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.