A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With Biographical Sketches of the AuthorsJ.A. Bancroft, 1865 - 784 pages |
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... mind and every pulsation of my heart is , and always has been , on the side of liberty and the right of every human being to its fullest enjoy- ment , believing , with Cowper , that " Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting ...
... mind and every pulsation of my heart is , and always has been , on the side of liberty and the right of every human being to its fullest enjoy- ment , believing , with Cowper , that " Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting ...
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... mind , it may be mentioned that in his sophomore year he read Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding with such interest and delight as to declare that in the perusal of it he enjoyed a far higher pleasure " than the most greedy miser ...
... mind , it may be mentioned that in his sophomore year he read Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding with such interest and delight as to declare that in the perusal of it he enjoyed a far higher pleasure " than the most greedy miser ...
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... mind so sweet a sense of the glorious majesty and grace of God , as I knew not how to express . I seemed to see them both in a sweet con- junction ; majesty and meekness joined together . It was a sweet , and gentle , and holy majesty ...
... mind so sweet a sense of the glorious majesty and grace of God , as I knew not how to express . I seemed to see them both in a sweet con- junction ; majesty and meekness joined together . It was a sweet , and gentle , and holy majesty ...
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... minds of parents , than any thing which threatens the character or the comfort of their children . " The result was that ... mind , and continued to increase with such strength that , in 1749 , he disclosed to his church his change of ...
... minds of parents , than any thing which threatens the character or the comfort of their children . " The result was that ... mind , and continued to increase with such strength that , in 1749 , he disclosed to his church his change of ...
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... mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of my money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly , that I cried with vexation : and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure . This , however ...
... mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of my money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly , that I cried with vexation : and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure . This , however ...
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Page 625 - Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Page 380 - When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 52 - 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 51 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that...
Page 269 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 410 - 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' first lisping tells; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch and cottage bed.
Page 639 - And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me— filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, " 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is and nothing more.
Page 269 - It is to that union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of...
Page 625 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 504 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, And weariness a name.