American Prose: SelectionsMacmillan, 1898 - 465 páginas |
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... army and a fleet ? I wonder how you can have the impudence to ask such a favor of me , or the folly to expect it ! - Britain . — You , my dear sister France , will surely not refuse me this favor . France . - - Did you not assist my ...
... army and a fleet ? I wonder how you can have the impudence to ask such a favor of me , or the folly to expect it ! - Britain . — You , my dear sister France , will surely not refuse me this favor . France . - - Did you not assist my ...
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... army in their country , intrenched to the teeth , and pro- vided with everything ! Do you run about begging all Europe not to supply those poor people with a little powder and shot ? Do you mean , then , to fall upon them naked and ...
... army in their country , intrenched to the teeth , and pro- vided with everything ! Do you run about begging all Europe not to supply those poor people with a little powder and shot ? Do you mean , then , to fall upon them naked and ...
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... army , that their country would finally do them complete and ample justice ; and not wishing to conceal any instance of my official conduct from the eyes of the world , I have thought proper to transmit to your Excellency the enclosed ...
... army , that their country would finally do them complete and ample justice ; and not wishing to conceal any instance of my official conduct from the eyes of the world , I have thought proper to transmit to your Excellency the enclosed ...
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... army must be put upon the same footing ) , we take into the estimate the douceurs many of the soldiers have received , and the gratuity of one year's full pay , which is promised to all , possibly their situation ( every cir- cumstance ...
... army must be put upon the same footing ) , we take into the estimate the douceurs many of the soldiers have received , and the gratuity of one year's full pay , which is promised to all , possibly their situation ( every cir- cumstance ...
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... army , less patient , less virtuous , and less persevering , than that which I have had the honor to command . But , while I mention these things , which are notorious facts , as the defects of our federal constitution , particularly in ...
... army , less patient , less virtuous , and less persevering , than that which I have had the honor to command . But , while I mention these things , which are notorious facts , as the defects of our federal constitution , particularly in ...
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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 194 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 261 - 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 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.
Página 39 - 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 113 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...
Página 133 - He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor — the mountain ravine — the wild retreat among the rocks — the woe-begone party at nine-pins — the flagon — " Oh ! that flagon ! that wicked flagon ! " thought Rip — " what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?
Página 39 - A little neglect may breed great mischief ; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Página 82 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...