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 ページ |
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... refinement of specta- cle and amusement , are kept up in a perpetual round . But his I. and R. M. leaves us soon , it is said , for another campaign ; when , of course , much of this splendour will subside . Is it not a singular fact ...
... refinement of specta- cle and amusement , are kept up in a perpetual round . But his I. and R. M. leaves us soon , it is said , for another campaign ; when , of course , much of this splendour will subside . Is it not a singular fact ...
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... refined , ideas enlarged , objects com- plicated ; when sagacity rather than truth prevails in debate ; when the arts and sciences , furnishing a multitude of objects of comparison , render an au- † We again express our regret that ...
... refined , ideas enlarged , objects com- plicated ; when sagacity rather than truth prevails in debate ; when the arts and sciences , furnishing a multitude of objects of comparison , render an au- † We again express our regret that ...
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... refinement , when the facilities of printing render a whole nation one and the same au- dience , it is hazardous to give the reins to inspira- tion . Extemporary eloquence existed first in Greece , where it survived the fall of freedom ...
... refinement , when the facilities of printing render a whole nation one and the same au- dience , it is hazardous to give the reins to inspira- tion . Extemporary eloquence existed first in Greece , where it survived the fall of freedom ...
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... refinement have flourished for centuries , without producing an epic poem ; and one , perhaps the most enlightened of modern nations , after remaining till a very late æra without this honour , seems at last to have made the effort ...
... refinement have flourished for centuries , without producing an epic poem ; and one , perhaps the most enlightened of modern nations , after remaining till a very late æra without this honour , seems at last to have made the effort ...
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... refined and con- templative mind ; but a disciplined taste will not make amends for a dearth of invention . Readers are advertised in the preface that they will find the uni- ties in good preservation . But what great poet re- gards the ...
... refined and con- templative mind ; but a disciplined taste will not make amends for a dearth of invention . Readers are advertised in the preface that they will find the uni- ties in good preservation . But what great poet re- gards the ...
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106 ページ - 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.
115 ページ - 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.
145 ページ - 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.
67 ページ - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
107 ページ - 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.
57 ページ - 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.
66 ページ - 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...
107 ページ - 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.
54 ページ - 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...