American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various WritersGeorge Rice Carpenter Macmillan Company, 1898 - 465 páginas |
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... never become independent of outside influences , nor ceased often to follow foreign models . No living literature of modern times can be independent of other literatures ; indeed , it is the glory of English literature , on both sides ...
... never become independent of outside influences , nor ceased often to follow foreign models . No living literature of modern times can be independent of other literatures ; indeed , it is the glory of English literature , on both sides ...
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... never travelled a hundred miles from his birthplace . He died on the day after his sixty - fifth birthday , Feb. 13 , 1728. ] THROUGHOUT his life , a life of rare restlessness and activity , Cotton Mather was utterly devoted to the ...
... never travelled a hundred miles from his birthplace . He died on the day after his sixty - fifth birthday , Feb. 13 , 1728. ] THROUGHOUT his life , a life of rare restlessness and activity , Cotton Mather was utterly devoted to the ...
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... never obscure ; it never lacks spirit ; and it possesses a rhythmical dignity , a sustained and sonorous movement , beyond the power of later times . These formal traits , as one grows to know them , become fascinating ; nor is the ...
... never obscure ; it never lacks spirit ; and it possesses a rhythmical dignity , a sustained and sonorous movement , beyond the power of later times . These formal traits , as one grows to know them , become fascinating ; nor is the ...
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... never like to see his Dearest Son alive any more in this World . And though before the First Prayer began , a Messenger came to prevent Mr. Davenport's praying for the Sick Person , who was now Dead , yet his Affectionate Father alter'd ...
... never like to see his Dearest Son alive any more in this World . And though before the First Prayer began , a Messenger came to prevent Mr. Davenport's praying for the Sick Person , who was now Dead , yet his Affectionate Father alter'd ...
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... never do so much as enquire after the Religion of the Strangers now come into their Country , much less would they so far imitate us , as to leave off their beastly way of living , that they might be Partakers of any Spiritual Advantage ...
... never do so much as enquire after the Religion of the Strangers now come into their Country , much less would they so far imitate us , as to leave off their beastly way of living , that they might be Partakers of any Spiritual Advantage ...
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Página 259 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 34 - 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.
Página 78 - 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 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 20 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, "Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Página 259 - ... \In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 129 - ... be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it. On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Página 104 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 37 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Página 80 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...