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... doubt or deny the existence of a Supreme Power . But both these are exceptions to the general current of human thought , and to the general conviction of our nature . Man is naturally religious ; but then his religion takes its ...
... doubt or deny the existence of a Supreme Power . But both these are exceptions to the general current of human thought , and to the general conviction of our nature . Man is naturally religious ; but then his religion takes its ...
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... doubt , that the Civil History of the great Republic of antiquity will have been written , not only with thorough research , but also with ele- gance of style , and chaste , classical illustration , by a citizen of the great Republic of ...
... doubt , that the Civil History of the great Republic of antiquity will have been written , not only with thorough research , but also with ele- gance of style , and chaste , classical illustration , by a citizen of the great Republic of ...
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... doubt , that the first works , by which man expressed his thoughts and feelings in an orderly composition , were essentially poetical . In the earliest writings , of which we know anything with distinctness , we have an union , or ...
... doubt , that the first works , by which man expressed his thoughts and feelings in an orderly composition , were essentially poetical . In the earliest writings , of which we know anything with distinctness , we have an union , or ...
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... doubt , that personally he heard the oration of Pericles ; and it is remarkable that , throughout the most flourishing period of Greek lit- erature , both poetical and historical , productions were composed to be heard , rather than to ...
... doubt , that personally he heard the oration of Pericles ; and it is remarkable that , throughout the most flourishing period of Greek lit- erature , both poetical and historical , productions were composed to be heard , rather than to ...
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... doubts that everything told of Robinson Crusoe is exactly true , because all is so circumstantially told ; I believe I was about ten years of age , when I first read Robinson Crusoe , and I remember still the dis- tress and perspiration ...
... doubts that everything told of Robinson Crusoe is exactly true , because all is so circumstantially told ; I believe I was about ten years of age , when I first read Robinson Crusoe , and I remember still the dis- tress and perspiration ...
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Page 29 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such* as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 8 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased : The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 42 - We, the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risK of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies.
Page 44 - When your lordships look at the papers, transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 29 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 46 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 44 - I must declare and avow, that, in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study, — I have read ''• 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.
Page 47 - UNBORN ages and visions of glory crowd upon my soul, the realization of all which, however, is in the hands and good pleasure of Almighty God ; but, under his divine blessing, it will be dependent on the character and the virtues of ourselves, and of our posterity. If classical history has been found to be, is now, and shall continue to be, the concomitant5 of free instituticiis, and of popular eloquence, what a field is opening to 08 for another Herod'otus,' another Thucydides,
Page 39 - Massachusetts Bay, to the execution of the late acts of parliament; and if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, in such case, all America ought to support them in their opposition.
Page 53 - All the good, whether learned or unlearned, high or low, rich or poor, feel this day that there is one treasure common to them all, and that is the fame of Washington. They all recount...