A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the revolutionary period,1765-1787Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz W. E. Benjamin, 1894 - American literature |
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... thought the writ ing excellent , and wished , if possible , to imitate it . With this view I took some of the papers , and , making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence , laid them by a few days , and then , without looking at ...
... thought the writ ing excellent , and wished , if possible , to imitate it . With this view I took some of the papers , and , making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence , laid them by a few days , and then , without looking at ...
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... thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import , but of different length , to suit the measure , or of different sound for the rhyme , would ...
... thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import , but of different length , to suit the measure , or of different sound for the rhyme , would ...
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... . A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty , perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little . Then I walked up the street , gazing about till 6 [ 1765-87 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... . A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty , perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little . Then I walked up the street , gazing about till 6 [ 1765-87 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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... thought I made , as I certainly did , a most awkward , ridiculous appear- ance . Then I turned and went down Chestnut - street and part of Walnut- street , eating my roll all the way , and , coming round , found myself again at Market ...
... thought I made , as I certainly did , a most awkward , ridiculous appear- ance . Then I turned and went down Chestnut - street and part of Walnut- street , eating my roll all the way , and , coming round , found myself again at Market ...
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... thought it an imposi- tion , as I had paid below ; the master thought so too , and forbade my pay- ing it . I stood out two or three weeks , was accordingly considered as an excommunicate , and had so many little pieces of private ...
... thought it an imposi- tion , as I had paid below ; the master thought so too , and forbade my pay- ing it . I stood out two or three weeks , was accordingly considered as an excommunicate , and had so many little pieces of private ...
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Page 167 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 286 - He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Page 221 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 142 - He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.
Page 168 - It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Page 165 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Page 167 - In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Page 286 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 36 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 168 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists, under different shapes, in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.