American Prose: SelectionsMacmillan, 1898 - 465 páginas |
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... close he writes , Prayers and Pains thro ' Faith in Christ Jesus will do any thing ! And being by his Prayers and Pains thus furnished , he set himself in the Year 1646 to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ , among these ...
... close he writes , Prayers and Pains thro ' Faith in Christ Jesus will do any thing ! And being by his Prayers and Pains thus furnished , he set himself in the Year 1646 to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ , among these ...
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... close of the war he retired to Mt. Vernon , where he took an active interest in the efforts made to strengthen the union of states . He presided over the Convention of 1787 , and was subsequently elected first President under the new ...
... close of the war he retired to Mt. Vernon , where he took an active interest in the efforts made to strengthen the union of states . He presided over the Convention of 1787 , and was subsequently elected first President under the new ...
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... close attention to public business . Here I might speak with the more confidence , from my actual observations ; and , if it would not swell this letter ( already too prolix ) beyond the bounds I had prescribed to myself , I could ...
... close attention to public business . Here I might speak with the more confidence , from my actual observations ; and , if it would not swell this letter ( already too prolix ) beyond the bounds I had prescribed to myself , I could ...
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... close of the war by a series of patriotic brochures entitled The Crisis . He served for a time as aide - de - camp to General Greene , and in 1777 and 1778 he acted as secretary to the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs . In ...
... close of the war by a series of patriotic brochures entitled The Crisis . He served for a time as aide - de - camp to General Greene , and in 1777 and 1778 he acted as secretary to the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs . In ...
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... Close to the falling water , seated on the edge , his back supported by the rock , and his legs hanging over the preci- pice , I now beheld the savage who left the cave before me . The noise of the cascade and the improbability of ...
... Close to the falling water , seated on the edge , his back supported by the rock , and his legs hanging over the preci- pice , I now beheld the savage who left the cave before me . The noise of the cascade and the improbability of ...
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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...