The Old Bachelor ...Printed at the Enquirer Press, for Thomas Ritchie & Fielding Lucas, 1814 - 235 páginas |
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... father at an age too young to retain any knowledge of him . In the year 1770 , after having graduated at Princeton College , I tra- velled , by the indulgence of the best of mothers , over the whole of civilized and refined Europe ...
... father at an age too young to retain any knowledge of him . In the year 1770 , after having graduated at Princeton College , I tra- velled , by the indulgence of the best of mothers , over the whole of civilized and refined Europe ...
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... father , and in his childhood , dependant on a mother who had to support her- self and him by manual labor . Arrived at years of matu- rity , he at first taught a school , and afterwards wander- ed about Greece , in the character of a ...
... father , and in his childhood , dependant on a mother who had to support her- self and him by manual labor . Arrived at years of matu- rity , he at first taught a school , and afterwards wander- ed about Greece , in the character of a ...
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... fathers of the revolution . It would have been easier indeed at the close of the revolution to prevent the growth of indolent and vicious habits , than it will be now to erad- icate them . Yet still I am persuaded that by a great ...
... fathers of the revolution . It would have been easier indeed at the close of the revolution to prevent the growth of indolent and vicious habits , than it will be now to erad- icate them . Yet still I am persuaded that by a great ...
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... the first settlement of this colony - and so long also , family tradition says , has there descended along with the land , from father to son , 2 set of rules , for the government of the THE OLD BACHELOR . Number IX. ...
... the first settlement of this colony - and so long also , family tradition says , has there descended along with the land , from father to son , 2 set of rules , for the government of the THE OLD BACHELOR . Number IX. ...
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... father , a staid and sober personage , felt for these domestic Canons , the most profound veneration ; and with ... father's place , was to look out for a help - mate - for it was one of the laws , that the head of the family should use ...
... father , a staid and sober personage , felt for these domestic Canons , the most profound veneration ; and with ... father's place , was to look out for a help - mate - for it was one of the laws , that the head of the family should use ...
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Página 205 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 119 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation must be vain, must be fatal.
Página 106 - There was no ambition of eloquence, no effort to shine, in anything which came from him. There was nothing which made any demand either upon your allegiance or your admiration. His manner was as unaffected as infancy. It was nature's self. He talked like an old patriarch ; and his plainness and simplicity put you, at once, at your ease, and gave you the full...
Página 119 - I must declare and avow, that, in the master. states of the world, I know not the people'* nor the senate, who in such a complication of difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to the Delegates of America, assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia.
Página 107 - ... or your admiration. His manner was as unaffected as infancy. It was nature's self. He talked like an old patriarch; and his plainness and simplicity put you at once at your ease, and gave you the full and free possession and use of all your faculties. His thoughts were of a character to shine by their own light, without any adventitious aid. They required only a medium of vision like his pure and simple style to exhibit, to the highest advantage, their native radiance and beauty. His cheerfulness...
Página 16 - If I attack the vicious, I shall only set upon them in a body ; and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive from others, to make an example of any particular criminal.
Página 89 - I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after ; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Página 64 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage...
Página 106 - Great as he was, both as a statesman and a philosopher, he never shone in a light more winning than when he was seen in a domestic circle. It was once my good fortune to pass two or three weeks with him, at the house of a private gentleman...