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... trust , shallow , flashy demagogues are very commonly preferred to solid , judicious , honest men . At this day , our average voter certainly has not more judgment of his own than he had fifty years ago , and he has far less respect for ...
... trust , shallow , flashy demagogues are very commonly preferred to solid , judicious , honest men . At this day , our average voter certainly has not more judgment of his own than he had fifty years ago , and he has far less respect for ...
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... trust , complaining of hostilities which she dares not resent , — - ond , passed the same session , revoked and annulled the royal charter of Massa- chusetts Bay , in pursuance of which the public affairs of the colony had been ...
... trust , complaining of hostilities which she dares not resent , — - ond , passed the same session , revoked and annulled the royal charter of Massa- chusetts Bay , in pursuance of which the public affairs of the colony had been ...
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... trust your candour will be so indul- gent to my weakness as not to have the worse opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my rejecting all share whatsoever in such a triumph . I am too old , too stiff in my ...
... trust your candour will be so indul- gent to my weakness as not to have the worse opinion of me for my declining to participate in this joy , and my rejecting all share whatsoever in such a triumph . I am too old , too stiff in my ...
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... trust them as amply as we think proper ; but as they have most certainly a call for all the reason which their stock can furnish , why should we think it proper to disturb its opera- tion by inflaming their passions ? I may be unable to ...
... trust them as amply as we think proper ; but as they have most certainly a call for all the reason which their stock can furnish , why should we think it proper to disturb its opera- tion by inflaming their passions ? I may be unable to ...
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... trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ambition . But it will appear in its time ; and no man who professes to reduce another to the inso- lent mercy of a foreign arm ever had any sort of good - will to- wards him . The ...
... trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ambition . But it will appear in its time ; and no man who professes to reduce another to the inso- lent mercy of a foreign arm ever had any sort of good - will to- wards him . The ...
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Page 384 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 170 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 582 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 129 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts...
Page 571 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 47 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 562 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves.
Page 468 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 468 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Page 201 - Turbulent, discontented men of quality, "in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. One of the first symptoms they discover of a selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others. To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed...