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... honor , and even fanaticism . The man of piety will take his gold if dimmed by the fumes of the grog - shop ; the man of honor will share the pro- fits of the house of prostitution , and fatten on the price of innocence and virtue ; and ...
... honor , and even fanaticism . The man of piety will take his gold if dimmed by the fumes of the grog - shop ; the man of honor will share the pro- fits of the house of prostitution , and fatten on the price of innocence and virtue ; and ...
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... honor to the rich repast . The dinner is the best that could possibly be eaten . All the meat and vegetables are from the homestead - farm , and they are all determined to make the most ' of them by leaving the least . The ancient jest ...
... honor to the rich repast . The dinner is the best that could possibly be eaten . All the meat and vegetables are from the homestead - farm , and they are all determined to make the most ' of them by leaving the least . The ancient jest ...
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... honor to his youth as Paradise Lost ' to his age . Collins's Ode on the Passions ' is another famous lyric , but we confess we do not admire it so much as it is the fashion to do . There seems to be a sort of ' got - up ' enthusiasm ...
... honor to his youth as Paradise Lost ' to his age . Collins's Ode on the Passions ' is another famous lyric , but we confess we do not admire it so much as it is the fashion to do . There seems to be a sort of ' got - up ' enthusiasm ...
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... honor upon themselves and their country . THE LAST IMPRESS OF DEATH . It has often been stated , and generally believed to be true , that in death a calm repose takes sole possession of the features , even of the worst of men : ' No ...
... honor upon themselves and their country . THE LAST IMPRESS OF DEATH . It has often been stated , and generally believed to be true , that in death a calm repose takes sole possession of the features , even of the worst of men : ' No ...
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... honor you have con- ferred upon me , by electing me President of this Society . An honor , be assured , both deeply felt and fully appreciated . It has been the custom on many of our anniversaries for the presiding officer to discourse ...
... honor you have con- ferred upon me , by electing me President of this Society . An honor , be assured , both deeply felt and fully appreciated . It has been the custom on many of our anniversaries for the presiding officer to discourse ...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8 Charles Fenno Hoffman,Lewis Gaylord Clark,Kinahan Cornwallis,Timothy Flint,John Holmes Agnew Visualização integral - 1836 |
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Página 345 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 337 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 43 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 356 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together." Franklin replied, " Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Página 345 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 341 - ... proud of being descended from men, who have set the world an example of founding civil institutions on the great and united principles of human freedom and human knowledge. To us, their children, the story of their labors and sufferings can never be without its interest.
Página 335 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 347 - They were further confirmed in this pleasing error by the form of their provincial legislative assemblies. Their governments are popular in a high degree; some are merely popular; in all, the popular representative is the most weighty...
Página 345 - People ; a People who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things, — when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of a watchful and suspicious Government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Página 335 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.