The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers : to which are Added, a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of New York : for the Use of SchoolsHenry, Hitchcock, & Company, 1841 - 300 páginas |
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... remain per- plexed and undetermined in our choice ; we are at the same time pulled to different sides by the various emotions which belong to our nature . On one hand , pleasure allures us to what is agreeable ; on the other , interest ...
... remain per- plexed and undetermined in our choice ; we are at the same time pulled to different sides by the various emotions which belong to our nature . On one hand , pleasure allures us to what is agreeable ; on the other , interest ...
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... remain . 8. But the course of time is so visibly marked , that it is even observed by the passage , and by nations who have raised their minds very little above animal instinct : there are human beings , whose language does not supply ...
... remain . 8. But the course of time is so visibly marked , that it is even observed by the passage , and by nations who have raised their minds very little above animal instinct : there are human beings , whose language does not supply ...
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... remains still unknown . 8. I ask , then , in what respect God is less qualified than any other being , to be an object of affection ? Convinced that he exists ; beholding his goodness spread abroad in his works - exerted in the ...
... remains still unknown . 8. I ask , then , in what respect God is less qualified than any other being , to be an object of affection ? Convinced that he exists ; beholding his goodness spread abroad in his works - exerted in the ...
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... remains . The walls of the Rostra , stripped of their ornaments , and doomed to eternal silence , - -a few shattered porticos , and here and there an insulated column , standing in the midst of broken shafts , vast fragments of marble ...
... remains . The walls of the Rostra , stripped of their ornaments , and doomed to eternal silence , - -a few shattered porticos , and here and there an insulated column , standing in the midst of broken shafts , vast fragments of marble ...
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... remains , and transmit them in their present state to posterity . 14. We then ascended the Palatine Mount , after ... remain vaulted , and of fine proportions , but so deeply buried in ruins as to be now subterranean . 16. A hall of ...
... remains , and transmit them in their present state to posterity . 14. We then ascended the Palatine Mount , after ... remain vaulted , and of fine proportions , but so deeply buried in ruins as to be now subterranean . 16. A hall of ...
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Página 202 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 269 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
Página 207 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Página 109 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 109 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Página 223 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Página 109 - If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope...
Página 108 - I ask, gentlemen — sir — what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Página 221 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Página 108 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.