A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volumen2Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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... opposition , or soon restored to perfect sanity by gentle and assuasive means . So , too , the mind , excited to fanaticism on any particular subject , religious , political , or philanthropic , is but heated to more dangerous fervour ...
... opposition , or soon restored to perfect sanity by gentle and assuasive means . So , too , the mind , excited to fanaticism on any particular subject , religious , political , or philanthropic , is but heated to more dangerous fervour ...
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... opposition it encoun- ters . Some of the Charleston papers , we perceived , spoke of the attack on the Post Office as premature , and thought it ought not to have been made until the result was received of an application which had been ...
... opposition it encoun- ters . Some of the Charleston papers , we perceived , spoke of the attack on the Post Office as premature , and thought it ought not to have been made until the result was received of an application which had been ...
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... opposition papers in this quarter are too anxious to conciliate the good will of the South , and turn the slave question into a weapon against their political adversaries , to find any fault with views which will be so highly relished ...
... opposition papers in this quarter are too anxious to conciliate the good will of the South , and turn the slave question into a weapon against their political adversaries , to find any fault with views which will be so highly relished ...
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... opposition which does not hesitate to invade the do- mestic sanctuary , and even violate the grave , has found nothing in his private character to reprehend . Mr. Van Buren has no more to do with the contents of the Evening Post than ...
... opposition which does not hesitate to invade the do- mestic sanctuary , and even violate the grave , has found nothing in his private character to reprehend . Mr. Van Buren has no more to do with the contents of the Evening Post than ...
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... opposition rancour to endear him to the hearts of the democracy , who , in the services he has done the state , in his even and consistent career , his uni- form support of popular rights , and his general integrity and worth in all the ...
... opposition rancour to endear him to the hearts of the democracy , who , in the services he has done the state , in his even and consistent career , his uni- form support of popular rights , and his general integrity and worth in all the ...
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Página 135 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 62 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 55 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Página 270 - All bonds, bills, notes, assurances, conveyances, all other contracts or securities whatsoever, except bottomry and respondentia bonds and contracts, and all deposits of goods or other things whatsoever, whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken, or secured or agreed to be reserved or taken, any greater sum, or greater value, for the loan or forbearance of any money, goods or other things in action, than is above prescribed, shall be void.
Página 203 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that Error uses against her power.
Página 270 - Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.
Página 210 - ... this obstructing violence meets for the most part with an event utterly opposite to the end which it drives at; instead of suppressing sects and schisms, it raises them and invests them with a reputation. ' The punishing of wits enhances their authority...
Página 278 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 271 - The clouds at my call have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command. I have restrained the rage of the Dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the Crab. The winds alone of all the elemental powers have hitherto refused my authority; and multitudes have perished by equinoctial tempests, which I found myself unable to prohibit or restrain.
Página 209 - You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.