The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 8David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1810 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... virtues , before we attempt the shining . This love of the he- roical and grand in virtue , of making painful sacrifices , and en- gaging in lofty enterprizes , is , for the most part , just as absurd as if a taylor or shoemaker should ...
... virtues , before we attempt the shining . This love of the he- roical and grand in virtue , of making painful sacrifices , and en- gaging in lofty enterprizes , is , for the most part , just as absurd as if a taylor or shoemaker should ...
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... the war ; But much more sweet thy lab'ring steps to guide To virtue's heights , with wisdom well supplied , And all the magazines of learning fortified . 4 But it is seldom his good fortune , in three 1810. ] 27 OF THE ROMAN POETS .
... the war ; But much more sweet thy lab'ring steps to guide To virtue's heights , with wisdom well supplied , And all the magazines of learning fortified . 4 But it is seldom his good fortune , in three 1810. ] 27 OF THE ROMAN POETS .
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... Virtues mourn : These , these at least our pious hands may spread , The unavailing honours of the dead . 300 310 Ver . 301. Winthrop Sargent , having twice visited Italy for the restoration of his health , was appointed to deliver the ...
... Virtues mourn : These , these at least our pious hands may spread , The unavailing honours of the dead . 300 310 Ver . 301. Winthrop Sargent , having twice visited Italy for the restoration of his health , was appointed to deliver the ...
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... virtue , an opportunity to represent him , according to the usual artifices of political animosity , as willing to abandon the interests of the United States to those of Great Britain , and desirous to prostrate our independence at the ...
... virtue , an opportunity to represent him , according to the usual artifices of political animosity , as willing to abandon the interests of the United States to those of Great Britain , and desirous to prostrate our independence at the ...
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... virtue , and external relations ; that the duty of a patriot was not to rest content with devising and recommending forms of government , but , by instilling sound principles into the minds of his fellow - citizens , to prepare the way ...
... virtue , and external relations ; that the duty of a patriot was not to rest content with devising and recommending forms of government , but , by instilling sound principles into the minds of his fellow - citizens , to prepare the way ...
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Page 166 - Think what with them they would do That without them dare to woo ; And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be ? Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair: If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve : If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? George Wither.
Page 124 - The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters who had successively dozed away their lives and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam, and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety that they were never either heard or talked of— which, next to being universally applauded, should be the object of ambition of all magistrates and rulers.
Page 27 - Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem : Non quia vexari quemquam est jucunda voluptas, Sed, quibus ipse malis careas, quia cernere suave est.
Page 165 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Page 105 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold; either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index,0 by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Page 125 - ... casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller.
Page 311 - IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had dofft her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.
Page 314 - But see ! the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest ; Time is, our tedious song should here have ending: Heaven's youngest-teemed star Hath fixed her polished car, Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending: And all about the courtly stable Bright-harnessed Angels sit in order serviceable.
Page 313 - With terror of that blast Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne.
Page 125 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.