The Library of American Biography, Volume 6Jared Sparks Harper, 1856 |
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Página 144 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 47 - Hooker speaks of, when, with the splendid magnificence of eastern metaphor, he says, that " her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world.
Página 340 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Página 236 - The time for favour is come," exulted Cotton Mather ; " yea, the set time is come. Instead of my being made a sacrifice to wicked rulers, my father-in-law, with several related to me, and several brethren of my own church, are among the council. The governor of the province is not my enemy, but one whom I baptized, and one of my own flock, and one of my dearest friends.
Página 230 - Sacrament, is best known to the Dangerous Knaves that have try'd it. But our Witches do seem to have got the knack : and this is one of the Things, that make me think, Witchcraft will not be fully understood, until the day when there shall not be one Witch in the World.
Página 231 - We cannot but with all thankfulness acknowledge the success which the merciful God has given unto the sedulous and assiduous endeavors of our honorable rulers to detect the abominable witchcrafts which have been committed in the country; humbly praying that the discovery of these mysterious and mischievous wickednesses may be perfected.
Página 67 - ... and new delight to his appropriate vocation. He was devoted to the law with a true enthusiasm; and his other studies and pursuits, so far as they had a serious object, were valued chiefly as they might minister to this idol of his affections. "It was in his profession that he found himself at home; in this consisted his pride and his pleasure; for as he said,' the bar is not the place to acquire or preserve a false or fraudulent reputation for talents,'— and on that theatre he felt conscious...
Página 46 - We shall have neutrality, soft and gentle and defenceless in herself, yet clad in the panoply of her warlike neighbors; with the frown of defiance upon her brow, and the smile of conciliation upon her lip; with the spear of Achilles in one hand, and a lying protestation of innocence and helplessness unfolded in the other. Nay, if I may be allowed so bold a figure, in a mere legal discussion, we shall have the branch of olive entwined around the bolt of Jove, and neutrality in the act of hurling the...
Página 120 - Steak and Grogg, and then went to work to fortify ourselves against an Attack. The Knight of the Woeful Countenance asked whether there were any Guns in the House. Two were produced. One of them in good Order. Nails were fixed over the Windows, the...
Página 43 - ... conquered, seized and brought in as prize, after a resistance of several minutes, in the course of which the Nereide fired about twenty guns. Some of the passengers co-operated in this resistance, but Pinto did not, nor, as far as is known, did he encourage it. I shall consider the case, then, as simply that of a neutral, who attempts to carry on his trade from a belligerent port, not only under belligerent convoy, but in a belligerent vessel of force, with full knowledge that she has capacity...