Historic Side-lightsHarper & Brothers, 1899 - 330 páginas |
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Abbé Abbé Raynal Adams American Andrews appears artist Bay Psalm Book Benjamin Franklin Berkeley Boston Bradshaw British Museum CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Cave Cave's century certainly character Church College committee copy death degree Doctor E pluribus unum England English engraved epitaph evidently fact father favor genius Gentleman's Magazine George Gibbon hand Hercules hero History honor Jefferson John John Adams Johnson King learned letter liberty LL.D London Lord Shaftesbury Massachusetts Mecom ment mentioned moral Moses Motteux motto nation natural never noble original Oxford peculiar person pluribus unum poet Polly Baker Polykleitos present printed probably Prodicus Professor Psalm published readers regard Saint says Scotch Scotland seal Seal of Virginia seems Simitiere thereof things Thomas Brand Hollis Thomas Hollis thought tion titlepage truth Virtue volume Washington whole William words writes written wrote Wythe Xenophon
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Página 240 - ... vengeance, presided in the illustrious band of heroes and patriots who fairly and openly adjudged CHARLES STUART, tyrant of England, to a public and exemplary death, thereby presenting to the amazed world, and transmitting down through applauding ages, the most glorious example of unshaken virtue, love of freedom, and impartial justice, ever exhibited on the blood-stained theatre of human action. Oh ! reader, pass not on till thou hast blessed his memory, and .never — never forget that rebellion...
Página 33 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us : that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Página 265 - Reason first — You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second — I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third — You can write ten times better than I can.
Página 118 - I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life ; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.
Página 1 - 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.
Página 149 - Abba's confidence in his authority for that tale, said, ' I will tell you, Abbe", the origin of that story. When I was a printer and editor of a newspaper, we were sometimes slack of news, and, to amuse our customers, I used to fill up our vacant columns with anecdotes and fables and fancies of my own, and this of Polly Baker is a story of my making on one of these occasions.
Página 24 - My dear Lord, I will give it you under my hand," replied the Queen, "if you are in any fear of my relapsing, that my dear first-born is the greatest ass, and the greatest liar, and the greatest canaille, and the greatest beast, in the whole world, and that I most heartily wish he was out of it.
Página 24 - George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second ; And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third ? When from earth the Fourth descended God be praised, the Georges ended ! WS Landor.
Página 149 - there is the story of Polly Baker, and the eloquent apology you have put into her mouth, when brought before a court of Massachusetts to suffer punishment under a law which you cite, for having had a bastard. I know there never was such a law in Massachusetts.
Página 11 - They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, and when occasions have been given them by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free election, re-established them in power. At this very time, too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.