The Works of Theodore Parker: Historic AmericansAmerican Unitarian association, 1908 |
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... Declaration of Inde- pendence . Virginia furnished the popular pen of Jef- ferson . Massachusetts the great ideas , the " self - evi- dent truths , " of the Declaration itself . New to the rest of the world , they have been " Resolved ...
... Declaration of Inde- pendence . Virginia furnished the popular pen of Jef- ferson . Massachusetts the great ideas , the " self - evi- dent truths , " of the Declaration itself . New to the rest of the world , they have been " Resolved ...
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... Declaration of Independence , for which alone Britain would give him a halter . More than twenty years before , he had sought to establish a Union be- tween the colonies ; now he seeks independence . He would build up the new government ...
... Declaration of Independence , for which alone Britain would give him a halter . More than twenty years before , he had sought to establish a Union be- tween the colonies ; now he seeks independence . He would build up the new government ...
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... Declaration in 1776 , is now a fact fixed in the history of mankind . Washington was the Franklin of camps , but Franklin was the Washington of courts ; and the masterly skill of the great diplomatist , the patience which might tire but ...
... Declaration in 1776 , is now a fact fixed in the history of mankind . Washington was the Franklin of camps , but Franklin was the Washington of courts ; and the masterly skill of the great diplomatist , the patience which might tire but ...
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... Declaration of Independence ; to the treaties of alliance with France and Prussia ; to the treaty of peace with Great Brit- ain ; now he signs the first petition for the abolition of slavery . Between 1783 and 1790 what important events ...
... Declaration of Independence ; to the treaties of alliance with France and Prussia ; to the treaty of peace with Great Brit- ain ; now he signs the first petition for the abolition of slavery . Between 1783 and 1790 what important events ...
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... declare this my last will and testament , " etc. He had no little resentments ; he forgave his enemies , as few statesmen and few Christians do , ex- cept in formal prayers , where it costs nothing and leads to nothing . He was publicly ...
... declare this my last will and testament , " etc. He had no little resentments ; he forgave his enemies , as few statesmen and few Christians do , ex- cept in formal prayers , where it costs nothing and leads to nothing . He was publicly ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adams's affairs American army became Boston Braintree British called character Christian Church citizens colonies Congress Constitution Convention Court Daniel Webster Declaration defense Democrats duty eminent England Faneuil Hall father Federal Federalists Fisher Ames France Franklin freedom friends Fugitive Slave Bill Governor Hamilton Hampshire hated heart honor House human hundred ideas intellect Jefferson John Adams John Quincy Adams judge justice knew land lawyer Legislature letters liberty living looked mankind Massachusetts measures ment military mind Minister moral Mount Vernon nation nature negro never noble North opinion opposed orator Parker party patriotic Philadelphia Plymouth Rock political President principles religion religious Revolution Rhode Island Samuel Adams seems Senate slavery soldiers South speech Stephen Bachiller stood things thought thousand tion took treaty unalienable rights Union United Virginia vote Washington words writes wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 382 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 199 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 372 - Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow.
Página 39 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Página 334 - ... by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion,...
Página 126 - But my country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Página 106 - The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Página 396 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Página 183 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our...
Página 221 - In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.