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... manner authors may often happily imitate . In such qualities , however , it would be easy to find for him innumerable rivals , and many superiors ; nor would it be proper to consider them as even a principal cause of his fame and ...
... manner authors may often happily imitate . In such qualities , however , it would be easy to find for him innumerable rivals , and many superiors ; nor would it be proper to consider them as even a principal cause of his fame and ...
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... manner , has at all times been the most favourite pursuit of those who find plea- sure in literature , and it has conferred the highest crown on the authors who have been most successful in attempting it . It is the foundation of all ...
... manner , has at all times been the most favourite pursuit of those who find plea- sure in literature , and it has conferred the highest crown on the authors who have been most successful in attempting it . It is the foundation of all ...
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... manners also and habits of life , though exempt from all in- solence or pride , were thought to savour more of the magni- ficence of the courtier , than of republican simplicity ; and his wealth was supposed too great for popular ...
... manners also and habits of life , though exempt from all in- solence or pride , were thought to savour more of the magni- ficence of the courtier , than of republican simplicity ; and his wealth was supposed too great for popular ...
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... manners simple and unadorned . Hancock , on the other hand , was numbered with the richest individuals of his country . His equipage was magnificent , and such as at pre- sent is unknown in America . His apparel was sumptuously ...
... manners simple and unadorned . Hancock , on the other hand , was numbered with the richest individuals of his country . His equipage was magnificent , and such as at pre- sent is unknown in America . His apparel was sumptuously ...
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... manners , to preside in this great council of the nation . When the chair of the presidency was offered him , he is said to have received the intelligence with embarrassment and hesitation ; which the ingenious malice of some of his ...
... manners , to preside in this great council of the nation . When the chair of the presidency was offered him , he is said to have received the intelligence with embarrassment and hesitation ; which the ingenious malice of some of his ...
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Página xvii - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 82 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Página 91 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Página 165 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
Página 59 - England, sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you, when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Página 226 - And that this regulation shall be an article of compact, and remain a fundamental principle of the constitutions between the thirteen original States, and each of the States described in the resolve,
Página ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 114 - I shall esteem myself the happiest of men, if I can be instrumental in recommending my country more and more to your Majesty's royal benevolence, and of restoring an entire esteem, confidence, and affection, or, in better words, the old good nature, and the old good humor between people, who, though separated by an ocean, and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood.
Página ii - And also to the act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned...
Página 121 - It was not then, nor has been since, any objection to it, in my mind, that the executive and senate were not more permanent. Nor have I ever entertained a thought of promoting any alteration in it, but such as the people themselves, in the course of their experience, should see and feel to be necessary or expedient, and by their Representatives in Congress and the state legislatures, according to the constitution itself, adopt and ordain.