The Echo: With Other Poems

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Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius, 1807 - African Americans - 331 pages
Anthology of poems by the Hartford Wits that had appeared in the American Mercury magazine from 1791 to 1805. The primary contributors were Richard Alsop and Theodore Dwight. Other contributors included Lemuel Hopkins, H.H. Brackenridge (on the Indian War), Mason Cogswell, William Trumbull, Elihu Hubbard Smith.

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Page 162 - ... them with the debts of the past War will then be but a suspension of useful works ; and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement. I have said...
Page 163 - These persons inculcate a sanctimonious reverence for the customs of their ancestors ; that whatsoever they did, must be done through all time ; that reason is a false guide, and to advance under its counsel, in their physical, moral, or political condition, is perilous innovation...
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Page 1 - Those buildings that were defended by electric rods, appeared to be wrapped in sheets of livid flame, and a flood of the pure fire rolled its burning torrents down them with alarming violence. The majestic roar of disploding thunders, now bursting with a sudden crash, and now wasting the rumbling Echo of their sounds in other lands, added indescribable grandeur to the sublime scene.
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