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... ideas of the value and bearing of American work to prevail among our people until scholars have studied our literature as our history and our political system have already been studied , noting with care the peculiar qualities that our ...
... ideas of the value and bearing of American work to prevail among our people until scholars have studied our literature as our history and our political system have already been studied , noting with care the peculiar qualities that our ...
Página xiii
... ideas of individuals on matters of wide general interest , presented for adoption , as a series of resolutions might be , to the assembly of the people . It is with matters of the commonwealth that our prose literature is chiefly ...
... ideas of individuals on matters of wide general interest , presented for adoption , as a series of resolutions might be , to the assembly of the people . It is with matters of the commonwealth that our prose literature is chiefly ...
Página xiv
... ideas , and strong in its appeal to the hearts of many , rather than to the special tastes or foibles of the few . American prose has an even stronger claim on our attention than American verse . And this for two reasons . First ...
... ideas , and strong in its appeal to the hearts of many , rather than to the special tastes or foibles of the few . American prose has an even stronger claim on our attention than American verse . And this for two reasons . First ...
Página xv
... ideas of cer- tain sorts can be expressed by it . Its production is dependent , to a large degree , on a state of society in which an author is free to live a life of resolute leisure , free from all that would divert his fancy or his ...
... ideas of cer- tain sorts can be expressed by it . Its production is dependent , to a large degree , on a state of society in which an author is free to live a life of resolute leisure , free from all that would divert his fancy or his ...
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... idea of writing it in 1693 ; it was published in 1702. Whoever knows the history of New England will recognize these dates as intervening between that tragedy of Salem witchcraft which broke the political power of the clergy , and the ...
... idea of writing it in 1693 ; it was published in 1702. Whoever knows the history of New England will recognize these dates as intervening between that tragedy of Salem witchcraft which broke the political power of the clergy , and the ...
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Página 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Página 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Página 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Página 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Página 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Página 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Página 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.