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... become so great as to be really embarrassing . And here , doubtless , will be found the chief failing of my humble volume ; here is a field ample enough for the most vituperative critic to exercise his skill in . Many will see that some ...
... become so great as to be really embarrassing . And here , doubtless , will be found the chief failing of my humble volume ; here is a field ample enough for the most vituperative critic to exercise his skill in . Many will see that some ...
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... become acquainted before he went to London . Feeling the want of good books , he started the plan of a subscription library , - obtained fifty subscribers , " mostly young tradesmen , " who paid forty shillings each , -imported the ...
... become acquainted before he went to London . Feeling the want of good books , he started the plan of a subscription library , - obtained fifty subscribers , " mostly young tradesmen , " who paid forty shillings each , -imported the ...
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... Becoming an American the moment he landed upon our shores , he was selected by the citizens of New Jersey , in 1776 , as a delegate to the immortal Congress that promulgated the Declaration of Independence , to which instrument he ...
... Becoming an American the moment he landed upon our shores , he was selected by the citizens of New Jersey , in 1776 , as a delegate to the immortal Congress that promulgated the Declaration of Independence , to which instrument he ...
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... become inconvenient for transportation . 3. The people of every nation will get the quantity of these pre- cious metals that they are entitled to by their industry , and no more . If by any accident , as plunder in war , or borrowing ...
... become inconvenient for transportation . 3. The people of every nation will get the quantity of these pre- cious metals that they are entitled to by their industry , and no more . If by any accident , as plunder in war , or borrowing ...
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... becoming more human- ized in their policy ; that the subjects of ambition and causes for hostility are daily diminishing ; and , in fine , that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will pretty ...
... becoming more human- ized in their policy ; that the subjects of ambition and causes for hostility are daily diminishing ; and , in fine , that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will pretty ...
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Page 377 - Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice, — Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course...
Page 49 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 377 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again. And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns...
Page 221 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Page 379 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 50 - THOUGH, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Page 377 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 402 - Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Page 221 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just ; And this be our motto :
Page 74 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.