The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Volume 3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 - United States |
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... already been observed , in respect to the general political movement of the country , that the highest ascendency of the majority has never pre- vented its being opposed by a minority with even ex- cessive violence . The people are ...
... already been observed , in respect to the general political movement of the country , that the highest ascendency of the majority has never pre- vented its being opposed by a minority with even ex- cessive violence . The people are ...
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... already obtained . Another fault imputed to the Americans , and seem- ingly not without reason , is a pugnacious disposition — a promptitude to engage in personal conflict . Even an advocate allows that of all people they are the ...
... already obtained . Another fault imputed to the Americans , and seem- ingly not without reason , is a pugnacious disposition — a promptitude to engage in personal conflict . Even an advocate allows that of all people they are the ...
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... already a distinction between wealth long possessed and that newly acquired . In all the great cities , particu- larly Philadelphia , there are old families , who possess superior consideration , and into whose circle the par- venus are ...
... already a distinction between wealth long possessed and that newly acquired . In all the great cities , particu- larly Philadelphia , there are old families , who possess superior consideration , and into whose circle the par- venus are ...
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... already observed , prevails gene- rally among the respectable class of society , but more especially females . Even those men who themselves feel little of this spirit , show their sense of its influence on their domestic wellbeing , by ...
... already observed , prevails gene- rally among the respectable class of society , but more especially females . Even those men who themselves feel little of this spirit , show their sense of its influence on their domestic wellbeing , by ...
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... already observed that meals and other entertainments do not bear the same social character as with us , the victuals being usually consumed with extreme rapidity , after which the party instantly break up . But among the genteeler ...
... already observed that meals and other entertainments do not bear the same social character as with us , the victuals being usually consumed with extreme rapidity , after which the party instantly break up . But among the genteeler ...
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Page 137 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 154 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb; But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone; For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes...
Page 138 - The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man...
Page 136 - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
Page 160 - And thou an angel's happiness shall know; Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow; The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits...
Page 116 - States; her glories chanted by three millions of tongues, and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence. Sir, let but this, our celestial goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the People of the Old World, — tell them to come, and bid them welcome...
Page 115 - Do you ask how you are to get them ? Open your doors, Sir, and they will come in ! The population of the Old World is full to overflowing. That population is ground, too, by the oppressions of the Governments under which they live. Sir, they are already standing on tiptoe upon their native shores, and looking to your coasts with a wistful and longing eye.
Page 125 - ... by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit ; by accompanying them in their toils ; by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs — we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age.
Page 139 - ... and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the wrath Of the mad unchained elements to teach Who rules them. Be it ours to meditate, In these calm shades, thy milder majesty, And to the beautiful order of thy works Learn to conform the order of our lives.
Page 141 - And leave thee wild and sad 7 -:Ah ! 'twere a lot too blest For ever in thy colored shades to stray ; Amid the kisses of the soft south-west To rove and dream for aye ; And leave the vain low strife That makes men mad — the tug for wealth and power, The passions and the cares that wither life, And waste its little hour.