Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802T. Ostell, 1803 - 454 halaman |
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... letter of August 31 , in which you do me the honour to propose to dedicate to me the work you are about to publish . Such a testimony of respect from an enlightened Foreigner cannot but be flat- tering to me , and I have only to regret ...
... letter of August 31 , in which you do me the honour to propose to dedicate to me the work you are about to publish . Such a testimony of respect from an enlightened Foreigner cannot but be flat- tering to me , and I have only to regret ...
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... on Long Island - Meditations among the Tombs - I go to Baltimore - Mammoth Cheese— An exchange of Letters with the Vice - President- A Walk to Washington - Congress assembled― Debates - Politeness of the Vice - President - A 7.
... on Long Island - Meditations among the Tombs - I go to Baltimore - Mammoth Cheese— An exchange of Letters with the Vice - President- A Walk to Washington - Congress assembled― Debates - Politeness of the Vice - President - A 7.
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... letter of recommendation which I had been favoured with by a friend to a mer- chant in the city ; together with a volume of Travels from Boston to Philadelphia , which he had recently published . But I cannot say that I was received ...
... letter of recommendation which I had been favoured with by a friend to a mer- chant in the city ; together with a volume of Travels from Boston to Philadelphia , which he had recently published . But I cannot say that I was received ...
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... letters , when he un- dertakes the tuition of a family in America , may exclaim he has lost his independence . Though not a countryman of your's , continued Mr. Cari- tat , I am from the same division of the globe , for I was born and ...
... letters , when he un- dertakes the tuition of a family in America , may exclaim he has lost his independence . Though not a countryman of your's , continued Mr. Cari- tat , I am from the same division of the globe , for I was born and ...
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... letters , adorned the en- trance of the house : “ And in his needy shop a tortoise hung , An alligator stuff'd , and other skins Of ill - shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves . A beggarly account of empty boxes ; Green earthen pots ...
... letters , adorned the en- trance of the house : “ And in his needy shop a tortoise hung , An alligator stuff'd , and other skins Of ill - shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves . A beggarly account of empty boxes ; Green earthen pots ...
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Halaman 292 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country 1 rejoice at the beams of peace.
Halaman 179 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it...
Halaman 177 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Halaman 214 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Halaman 177 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the constitution all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
Halaman 178 - But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
Halaman 177 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind; let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Halaman 179 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Halaman 210 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Halaman 211 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was. He replied, 'I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.