Initial Studies in American LettersChautauqua Press, 1891 - 282 pages |
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... slaves , and visited occasionally by a distant neighbor , the Virginia country gentleman lived a free and careless life . He was fond of fox - hunting , horse- racing , and cock - fighting . There were no large towns , and the planters ...
... slaves , and visited occasionally by a distant neighbor , the Virginia country gentleman lived a free and careless life . He was fond of fox - hunting , horse- racing , and cock - fighting . There were no large towns , and the planters ...
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... slavery , in his brief tract , The Selling of Joseph , printed at Boston in 1700. His Phe- nomena Quædam Apocalyptica , a mystical interpretation of prophecies concerning the New Jerusalem , which he identi- fies with America , is ...
... slavery , in his brief tract , The Selling of Joseph , printed at Boston in 1700. His Phe- nomena Quædam Apocalyptica , a mystical interpretation of prophecies concerning the New Jerusalem , which he identi- fies with America , is ...
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... slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take , but as for me , give me liberty , or give me death ! " The eloquence of Patrick Henry was fervid rather than weighty or rich . But if such specimens of the ...
... slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take , but as for me , give me liberty , or give me death ! " The eloquence of Patrick Henry was fervid rather than weighty or rich . But if such specimens of the ...
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... slavery , and Jefferson's arraignment of King George for promoting the " peculiar institution " was left out from the final draft of the Declaration in deference to Southern members . " He has waged cruel war against human nature itself ...
... slavery , and Jefferson's arraignment of King George for promoting the " peculiar institution " was left out from the final draft of the Declaration in deference to Southern members . " He has waged cruel war against human nature itself ...
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... slavery was not taken by the men of Jefferson's generation . Another famous Virginian , John Randolph of Roanoke , him- self a slave - holder , in his speech on the militia bill in the House of Representatives , December 10 , 1811 ...
... slavery was not taken by the men of Jefferson's generation . Another famous Virginian , John Randolph of Roanoke , him- self a slave - holder , in his speech on the militia bill in the House of Representatives , December 10 , 1811 ...
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Page 227 - 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 98 - Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Page 143 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Page 245 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
Page 228 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 231 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and...
Page 230 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 150 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 219 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 152 - Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official, The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial...