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... cause we are taught to respect and value a human being , positively despoiled of every external aid , and reduced at once to the independent exertion of his intelligent faculties and capacities , who thus con- quers fear and weakness ...
... cause we are taught to respect and value a human being , positively despoiled of every external aid , and reduced at once to the independent exertion of his intelligent faculties and capacities , who thus con- quers fear and weakness ...
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... another man's . If they and their associates , who still remained behind , had been made of that stuff , which some men call liberal , be- cause , being lukewarm in itself , it is equally 24 THREE ERAS OF NEW ENGLAND .
... another man's . If they and their associates , who still remained behind , had been made of that stuff , which some men call liberal , be- cause , being lukewarm in itself , it is equally 24 THREE ERAS OF NEW ENGLAND .
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With Papers Critical and Biographical George Lunt. cause , being lukewarm in itself , it is equally uncon- cerned about every mode of faith , then , truly , the church would have been troubled with no worse heresy than vice , the ...
With Papers Critical and Biographical George Lunt. cause , being lukewarm in itself , it is equally uncon- cerned about every mode of faith , then , truly , the church would have been troubled with no worse heresy than vice , the ...
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... causes and operation of which he really knows nothing , -stretches him upon his bier . He cannot avoid the lightning or resist the whirlwind . Do what he will , -be what he will , - there will still be peril , misjudgment , uncertainty ...
... causes and operation of which he really knows nothing , -stretches him upon his bier . He cannot avoid the lightning or resist the whirlwind . Do what he will , -be what he will , - there will still be peril , misjudgment , uncertainty ...
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... causes , which would tend to concentrate and revive , once more , what I hope is the essentially sound mind of New England . And we might then have a progress , fitted to effect a reformation , if possible , not to be reformed , —to fix ...
... causes , which would tend to concentrate and revive , once more , what I hope is the essentially sound mind of New England . And we might then have a progress , fitted to effect a reformation , if possible , not to be reformed , —to fix ...
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affairs afford amidst amongst beauty become believe Burke certainly character Charles Jackson Choate civilized common conceive condition conduct constitution corrupt Daylesford devotion doubt duty elevation eminent England English evil exhibited eyes faculties FISHER AMES flowers forever garden genius Hastings heart higher highest honor human imagination India influence intellectual intelligent interest John Lowell judge Judge Jackson judgment JULY 15 justice learning less look loveliness Macaulay manifestations mankind MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY means memory ment mind moral motives native nature necessities ness never Newburyport newspaper noble nobler Nuncomar object offence opinion ordinary peace perhaps Phaeton philosophers poet political present principles profes progress purpose pursuits qualities reason regard Rohilla war scarcely seems sense sentiment Sir Elijah Impey social society soul speculations spirit superior Tamerlane things thought tion tivation true truth virtue Warren Hastings wise
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Página 53 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Página 201 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Página 69 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Página 187 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Página 184 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 173 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood : Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest : Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 230 - ... in this one, that we might escape the desolation of the storm. This treaty, like a rainbow on the edge of the cloud, marked to our eyes the space where it was raging, and afforded at the same time the sure prognostic of fair weather. If we reject it, the vivid colours will grow pale, it will be a baleful meteor portending tempest and war.
Página 128 - This, my Lords, we knew and we weighed before we came before you. But the crimes which we charge in these articles are not lapses, defects, errors of common human frailty, which, as we know and feel, we can allow for. We charge this offender...
Página 230 - The wellgrounded fears of our citizens in 1794, were removed by the treaty, but are not forgotten. Then they deemed war nearly inevitable, and would not this adjustment have been considered, at that day, as a happy escape from the calamity ? The great interest and the general desire of our people, was to enjoy the advantages of neutrality. This instrument, however misrepresented, affords America that inestimable security. The causes of our disputes are either cut up by the roots, or referred to a...
Página 191 - Who worship him with notes more sweet than words, And innocently open their glad wings, Fearless and full of life : the gush of springs, And fall of lofty fountains, and the bend Of stirring branches, and the bud which brings The swiftest thought of beauty, here extend, Mingling, and made by Love, unto one mighty end.