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Page 47
... become an idler and a drunkard , in attempting to serve his country , in the capacity of a legis- lator . He has been six times a candidate for a seat in the assembly , and twice for one in the senate , but never had the good fortune to ...
... become an idler and a drunkard , in attempting to serve his country , in the capacity of a legis- lator . He has been six times a candidate for a seat in the assembly , and twice for one in the senate , but never had the good fortune to ...
Page 50
... become obscure , impolitic , and unjust ; the execution of them wavering , unsteady , and feeble ; our judicial decisions unrighteous , absurd , contradictory to those of all other nations and states , and inconsistent with each other ...
... become obscure , impolitic , and unjust ; the execution of them wavering , unsteady , and feeble ; our judicial decisions unrighteous , absurd , contradictory to those of all other nations and states , and inconsistent with each other ...
Page 53
... become his accusers , or listen in silence to the accusation ? No duty requires from an individual or a nation that they should be ungrateful ; nor , for our part , do we know of any moral obligation which forbids us to extenuate the ...
... become his accusers , or listen in silence to the accusation ? No duty requires from an individual or a nation that they should be ungrateful ; nor , for our part , do we know of any moral obligation which forbids us to extenuate the ...
Page 60
... becomes dearer the lon- ger it is enjoyed , and cannot be forsaken without a vigorous ex- ertion . To indulge this propensity we eagerly catch at every change in the natural season or the political hemisphere , and at every revolution ...
... becomes dearer the lon- ger it is enjoyed , and cannot be forsaken without a vigorous ex- ertion . To indulge this propensity we eagerly catch at every change in the natural season or the political hemisphere , and at every revolution ...
Page 61
... become in- volved by his imprudence , or the mechanic who longed for an idle or a riotous hour , eagerly seized upon the same apology for de- fering the payment of debts or the fulfilment of contracts . A very honest country gentleman ...
... become in- volved by his imprudence , or the mechanic who longed for an idle or a riotous hour , eagerly seized upon the same apology for de- fering the payment of debts or the fulfilment of contracts . A very honest country gentleman ...
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American Andromache appears army banks beautiful Bible boat boiler Brevets caciques called captain character chinampas Cholula Colonel command Cottagers of Glenburnie Covenanters dollars per month earth enemy engine English Evandale eyes favour feel French gentlemen give gold Granville Sharp hand heart heaven honour horses hundred inhabitants John July July 14 June 14 king labour land leagues letters Lieutenants Lord Maj bvt manner master means ment Mexico miles mind mineralogy Montezuma nature never observed officers Old Mortality opinion Pernambuco persons Phillips political PORT FOLIO present principles province Pyrrhus racter received Recife rendered residence respect river says sent slaves soon spirit thee thing thou thousand tion town translation United whole word writer Yellow Fever
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Page 123 - Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Page 122 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 259 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 156 - The one was fire and fickleness, a child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind A wit as various, — gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.
Page 260 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 511 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 259 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame...
Page 119 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 259 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 433 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.