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... independence had not been a short , sharp one , marked by an intense . flame of enthusiasm ; the end was reached less by heroic endeavor than by heroic pa- tience and the wisdom of a few . The depths of ignominy into which Continental ...
... independence had not been a short , sharp one , marked by an intense . flame of enthusiasm ; the end was reached less by heroic endeavor than by heroic pa- tience and the wisdom of a few . The depths of ignominy into which Continental ...
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... sports , the suppers and dances which followed the bees , an equality of condition was assumed , very favorable to self - respect and independence of judgment . It is to be noticed that the substitution of alphabetical EARLY LIFE . 15.
... sports , the suppers and dances which followed the bees , an equality of condition was assumed , very favorable to self - respect and independence of judgment . It is to be noticed that the substitution of alphabetical EARLY LIFE . 15.
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... independence and autonomy looked upon everything re- lating to their country with a concentration of interest which not only attested the sin- cerity of their convictions , but made them indifferent to the larger , more universal ...
... independence and autonomy looked upon everything re- lating to their country with a concentration of interest which not only attested the sin- cerity of their convictions , but made them indifferent to the larger , more universal ...
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... independence is to be found in the alacrity with which the scholarly element in the country busied itself about themes which were close at hand and connected with the land of their life . Literature in its finer forms had but slen- der ...
... independence is to be found in the alacrity with which the scholarly element in the country busied itself about themes which were close at hand and connected with the land of their life . Literature in its finer forms had but slen- der ...
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Horace Elisha Scudder. nity , and independence in their manners , which give a corresponding air to their mode of speaking . Those who are accus- tomed to command slaves form a habit of expressing themselves with the tone of au- thority ...
Horace Elisha Scudder. nity , and independence in their manners , which give a corresponding air to their mode of speaking . Those who are accus- tomed to command slaves form a habit of expressing themselves with the tone of au- thority ...
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Page 205 - As an independent nation our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard ; for the taste of her writers is already corrupted, and her language on the decline.
Page 97 - Webster has returned and brought with him a very pretty wife. I wish him success, but I doubt in the present decay of business in our profession, whether his profits will enable him to keep up the style he sets out with. I fear he will breakfast upon Institutes, dine upon Dissertations, and go to bed supperless.
Page 105 - our learning is superficial in a shameful degree, . . . our colleges are disgracefully destitute of books and philosophical apparatus, . . . and I am ashamed to own that scarcely a branch of science can be fully investigated in America for want of books, especially original works.
Page 199 - Besides this, a national language is a band of national union. Every engine should be employed to render the people of this country national; to call their attachments home to their own country; and to inspire them with the pride of national character. However they may boast of independence, and the freedom of their government, yet their opinions are not sufficiently independent; an astonishing respect for the arts and literature of their parent country, and a blind imitation of its manners, are...
Page 21 - I endeavored to get farther knowledge upon the subject. I would gladly have prepared for it by learning the language I should have to use there, but there was no one in Boston who could teach me. " At Jamaica Plains there was a Dr. Brosius, a native of Strasburg, who gave instruction in mathematics. He was willing to do what he could for me in German, but he warned me that his pronunciation was very bad, as was that of all Alsace, which had become a part of France. Nor was it possible to get books....
Page 47 - Begin with the infant in his cradle : let the first word he lisps be Washington." In strict accordance with this patriotic sentiment, the compiler gives a series of lessons which would not be inappropriate to any girl or boy who in infancy had performed the feat of lisping the easy-going name which Mirabeau himself probably had some struggle to achieve.
Page 37 - As for those boys and girls that mind not their books, and love not church and school, but play with such as tell tales, tell lies, curse, swear, and steal, they will come to some bad end, and must be whipt till they mend their ways.
Page 202 - Every engine should be employed to render the people of this country national; to call their attachments home to their own country; and to inspire them with the pride of national character. . . . Let us then seize the present moment, and establish a national language as well as a national government.
Page 175 - Substitute modern forms of speech for the following archaisms, viz. "who" or "that" for "which" when used of persons; "are "for "be" in the present indicative; "know" "knew" for "wot" "wist;" "drag" or "drag away
Page 206 - We have therefore the fairest opportunity of establishing a national language, and of giving it uniformity and perspicuity, in North America, that ever presented itself to mankind. Now is the time to begin the plan. The minds of the Americans are roused by the events of a revolution; the necessity of organizing the political body and of forming constitutions...