A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 2Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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... things have ever given us more disgust than the fawning , hypocritical and unqualified lamentations , which are poured out by the public press on the demise of any conspicuous political opponent . Of the man whom the day before it ...
... things have ever given us more disgust than the fawning , hypocritical and unqualified lamentations , which are poured out by the public press on the demise of any conspicuous political opponent . Of the man whom the day before it ...
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... influence , and enjoy his notions of patriotism in a private station . A pretty thing it is to be sure , when the head officer of the VOL . II . - 2 Post Office establishment of the United States , and a WILLIAM LEGGETT . 13.
... influence , and enjoy his notions of patriotism in a private station . A pretty thing it is to be sure , when the head officer of the VOL . II . - 2 Post Office establishment of the United States , and a WILLIAM LEGGETT . 13.
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... thing , we , for a sin- gle journal , with all due amenity of disposition , but in- flexible firmness of temper , shall take leave to assure Vol . II . - 3 our fellow - citizens south of Mason aud Dixon's line WILLIAM LEGGETT . 25.
... thing , we , for a sin- gle journal , with all due amenity of disposition , but in- flexible firmness of temper , shall take leave to assure Vol . II . - 3 our fellow - citizens south of Mason aud Dixon's line WILLIAM LEGGETT . 25.
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... thing to remain silent through compassion and brotherly concern , and another to be rudely and authoritatively hushed by a vaunting command . But however displeasing the tone of the south is to us , its vapouring is a matter utterly ...
... thing to remain silent through compassion and brotherly concern , and another to be rudely and authoritatively hushed by a vaunting command . But however displeasing the tone of the south is to us , its vapouring is a matter utterly ...
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... thing calmly . The Government has ' carefully withheld from the post - office department a certain power , because it was too fearfully dangerous in its nature to be trusted to the discretion of even the chief officer , under any ...
... thing calmly . The Government has ' carefully withheld from the post - office department a certain power , because it was too fearfully dangerous in its nature to be trusted to the discretion of even the chief officer , under any ...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett ..., Volume 2 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett ..., Volume 2 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 2 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
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Aaron Clark abolition abolitionists admit American American Anti-Slavery Society Amos Kendall Andrew Jackson argument aristocratic ARTHUR TAPPAN asserted authority bank Benedick Buren cause character charter citizens commercial conduct Confederacy Congress Constitution democracy democratic discussion District of Columbia doctrines duty effect equal rights evil exclusive exercise expressed expunged favour February 25 freedom give honour influence institutions Jack Cade journal Kendall's labour legislation legislature less letter liberty mankind Martin Van Buren matter means ment mind monopoly moral natural right New-York newspapers object obligations occasion opinion opposition paper party penny press persons Plaindealer political possess Post Office Postmaster present principles privileges proper question readers reason regard respect Richmond Whig right of property Senate sense sentiments slave slaveholders slavery southern spirit theatre things tion trade true truth Union views violation Webster wholly
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Página 135 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 62 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 55 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Página 270 - All bonds, bills, notes, assurances, conveyances, all other contracts or securities whatsoever, except bottomry and respondentia bonds and contracts, and all deposits of goods or other things whatsoever, whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken, or secured or agreed to be reserved or taken, any greater sum, or greater value, for the loan or forbearance of any money, goods or other things in action, than is above prescribed, shall be void.
Página 203 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that Error uses against her power.
Página 270 - Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.
Página 210 - ... this obstructing violence meets for the most part with an event utterly opposite to the end which it drives at; instead of suppressing sects and schisms, it raises them and invests them with a reputation. ' The punishing of wits enhances their authority...
Página 278 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 271 - The clouds at my call have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command. I have restrained the rage of the Dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the Crab. The winds alone of all the elemental powers have hitherto refused my authority; and multitudes have perished by equinoctial tempests, which I found myself unable to prohibit or restrain.
Página 209 - You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.