Life and Correspondence of James Iredell: One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 第 1 巻D. Appleton, 1857 |
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28 ページ - Shandaic than in that of its having more handles than one ; the parallel breaks only in this, that in using the stick, every one will take the handle which suits his convenience. In Tristram Shandy, the handle is taken which suits the passions, their ignorance, or their sensibility.
197 ページ - With you I anticipate the important share which the colonies must soon have in regulating the political balance. They are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruin of Great Britain...
28 ページ - ... the gift of God; and, besides, a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him; his own .ideas are only called forth by what he reads ; and the vibrations within him entirely correspond with those excited : — 'tis like reading himself, and not the book.
28 ページ - ... tis the gift of God — and besides, a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book.
226 ページ - September, 1774, a number of the delegates chosen and appointed by the several colonies and provinces in North America, to meet and hold a Congress...
28 ページ - There is so little true feeling in the herd of the world, that I wish I could have got an act of parliament, when the books first appeared, that none but wise men should look into them...
568 ページ - I know not which Corps I have the greatest reason to be pleased with, Muhlenberg's Virgmians, or the North Carolina troops — they are both equally alert, zealous and spirited.
339 ページ - Unfortunately, one of the members from the back country introduced a test, by which every person, before he should be admitted to a share in the Legislature, should swear that he believed in the Holy Trinity, and that the Scriptures of the Old Testament was written by divine inspiration.