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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... things in themselves insignificant . As , however , the letters are ascribed to a Jesuit , it may be proper to state briefly , that the order of Jesuits , after be- ing broken up , and the members successively expelled from the ...
... things in themselves insignificant . As , however , the letters are ascribed to a Jesuit , it may be proper to state briefly , that the order of Jesuits , after be- ing broken up , and the members successively expelled from the ...
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... thing as an intrigue in the United States of America ? I think I should enjoy an amour with a squaw , string her bow , feather her arrows , run races with her , pick up her tomahawk , sharpen her scalping knife , play with her long nose ...
... thing as an intrigue in the United States of America ? I think I should enjoy an amour with a squaw , string her bow , feather her arrows , run races with her , pick up her tomahawk , sharpen her scalping knife , play with her long nose ...
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... thing of the English navy will acknowledge , that without impressing , it is impossible to equip a respecta- ble fleet within the time in which armaments are usually wanted . - Lord Chatham's Speech on the Relations with Spain , 2d ...
... thing of the English navy will acknowledge , that without impressing , it is impossible to equip a respecta- ble fleet within the time in which armaments are usually wanted . - Lord Chatham's Speech on the Relations with Spain , 2d ...
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... thing in the con- scription so rigorous , so lasting , so ungrateful ? . But if by comparison with the similar regulations of ancient and of modern powers , we see reasons for admiring the conscription , what must be our senti- ments of ...
... thing in the con- scription so rigorous , so lasting , so ungrateful ? . But if by comparison with the similar regulations of ancient and of modern powers , we see reasons for admiring the conscription , what must be our senti- ments of ...
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... things , and many others , you will give us the results of your imme- diate observation ; and , as you know , for the best possible reason , I most anxiously desire you may find cause to assure us of our error . But remember what ...
... things , and many others , you will give us the results of your imme- diate observation ; and , as you know , for the best possible reason , I most anxiously desire you may find cause to assure us of our error . But remember what ...
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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...