An Outline Sketch of American LiteratureChautauqua Press, 1887 - 287 páginas |
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... Hartford , of whom it was finely said that " when he was doing his Master's business he would put a king into his pocket . " Nor were their successors in the second or the third generation any less industrious and prolific . They rest ...
... Hartford , of whom it was finely said that " when he was doing his Master's business he would put a king into his pocket . " Nor were their successors in the second or the third generation any less industrious and prolific . They rest ...
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... Hartford , afforded an opportunity of this sort not to be missed , and his threnodist ac- cordingly celebrated him as a whetstone , " a loadstone , " an Ebenezer " - 66 66 66 " A stone for kingly David's use so fit As would not fail ...
... Hartford , afforded an opportunity of this sort not to be missed , and his threnodist ac- cordingly celebrated him as a whetstone , " a loadstone , " an Ebenezer " - 66 66 66 " A stone for kingly David's use so fit As would not fail ...
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... Relation of Virginia . Deane's edition . Boston : 1866 . 2. Cotton Mather . Magnalia Christi Americana . Hartford : 1820 . 3. Samuel Sewall . Diary . Massachusett's His- torical Collections 4 THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 49.
... Relation of Virginia . Deane's edition . Boston : 1866 . 2. Cotton Mather . Magnalia Christi Americana . Hartford : 1820 . 3. Samuel Sewall . Diary . Massachusett's His- torical Collections 4 THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 49.
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... Hartford Con- vention of 1814 was more than suspected of a de- sign to bring about the secession of New England from the Union . A good deal of oratory was called - out by the debates on the commercial treaty with Great THE ...
... Hartford Con- vention of 1814 was more than suspected of a de- sign to bring about the secession of New England from the Union . A good deal of oratory was called - out by the debates on the commercial treaty with Great THE ...
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... Hartford in 1782. It went through more than thirty editions in America , and was several times reprinted in England . McFingal was a satire in four cantos , directed against the Amer- ican Loyalists , and modeled quite closely upon ...
... Hartford in 1782. It went through more than thirty editions in America , and was several times reprinted in England . McFingal was a satire in four cantos , directed against the Amer- ican Loyalists , and modeled quite closely upon ...
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Página 56 - waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 13 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 193 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 203 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Página 56 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Página 203 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the goldenrod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Página 58 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus: and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 77 - And long shall timorous Fancy see The painted chief and pointed spear ; And reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.
Página 207 - Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than he has done? When was ever His right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun?
Página 143 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.