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... reason than ever why they should be sent to talk at Philadelphia , when they were needed for the actual work of ad- ministration at home . Politics fell back into their old localization , and every pub- lic man found his chief tasks at ...
... reason than ever why they should be sent to talk at Philadelphia , when they were needed for the actual work of ad- ministration at home . Politics fell back into their old localization , and every pub- lic man found his chief tasks at ...
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... reason , lighted on their way the disciples of this high priest strangely arisen in the England of that day . Sterling's youthful chivalry led him to befriend and help the Spanish polit- ical refugees , of whom a numerous band were in ...
... reason , lighted on their way the disciples of this high priest strangely arisen in the England of that day . Sterling's youthful chivalry led him to befriend and help the Spanish polit- ical refugees , of whom a numerous band were in ...
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... reason , to the cabinet system , and its practice of deciding things only after open discussion , that it un- duly stimulates mere talk , and postpones actual business for the purpose of allow- be ing a large number of persons to state ...
... reason , to the cabinet system , and its practice of deciding things only after open discussion , that it un- duly stimulates mere talk , and postpones actual business for the purpose of allow- be ing a large number of persons to state ...
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... reason to presume that their attention and their votes will be directed to those men only who have become the most dis- tinguished by their abilities and virtue , and in whom the people perceive just grounds for confidence . The ...
... reason to presume that their attention and their votes will be directed to those men only who have become the most dis- tinguished by their abilities and virtue , and in whom the people perceive just grounds for confidence . The ...
Side 49
... reason that could be easily stated except that they were prac- tices or beliefs of long standing . In England these habits have always com- posed what is called " the British Consti- tution , " and in America they have made certain ...
... reason that could be easily stated except that they were prac- tices or beliefs of long standing . In England these habits have always com- posed what is called " the British Consti- tution , " and in America they have made certain ...
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Side 348 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Side 352 - The court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them; who, for his reputation in the country, took occasion to whisper in the judge's ear, that he was glad his lordship had met with so much good weather in his circuit.
Side 158 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Side 322 - In a blacker, incessanter line; That the din will be more on its banks, Denser the trade on its stream, Flatter the plain where it flows, Fiercer the sun overhead.
Side 194 - After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
Side 195 - One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.
Side 94 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Side 102 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith : but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Side 220 - I'm the chief of Ulva's Isle, And this Lord Ullin's daughter. "And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. "His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my...
Side 167 - You know how well I loved both Lord Oxford and Bolingbroke, and how dear the Duke of Ormond is to me: do you imagine I can be easy while their enemies are endeavouring to take off their heads; I nunc, et versus tecum meditare canoros...