National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from ...Johnson, Fry, 1862 - 488 páginas |
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... Court at Ver- sailles , and thus the man diligent in business comes to realize the proverb and stand before kings , not before mean men . It is his own application somewhere in his Autobiography of the saying of Solomon . Yet more , he ...
... Court at Ver- sailles , and thus the man diligent in business comes to realize the proverb and stand before kings , not before mean men . It is his own application somewhere in his Autobiography of the saying of Solomon . Yet more , he ...
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... court sustained the the keeper of the tavern at Hanover claim of the clergy , and Mr. Lewis , Court - house , years in which the young who had been retained by the people , lawyer , in the absence of practice , assist threw up the case ...
... court sustained the the keeper of the tavern at Hanover claim of the clergy , and Mr. Lewis , Court - house , years in which the young who had been retained by the people , lawyer , in the absence of practice , assist threw up the case ...
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... court refused a motion for been referred to a Committee of a new trial . No report of Henry's Privileges and Elections , before which speech is left ; but it must have had counsel could be heard . Henry was some argumentative force ...
... court refused a motion for been referred to a Committee of a new trial . No report of Henry's Privileges and Elections , before which speech is left ; but it must have had counsel could be heard . Henry was some argumentative force ...
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... Court . He was still no great book lawyer ; but he knew the principles of human nature , seized the strong points History of the United States , V. 278 . oppressed ; Parliament taxed tea and other commodities ; she saw a system of ...
... Court . He was still no great book lawyer ; but he knew the principles of human nature , seized the strong points History of the United States , V. 278 . oppressed ; Parliament taxed tea and other commodities ; she saw a system of ...
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... court . ' The poet : The poet : " That honorable gentleman is " old man eloquent " did not live to take his seat in the Legislature . He died June 6 , 1799. A touching inci- dent , recorded of his appearance at the election scene to ...
... court . ' The poet : The poet : " That honorable gentleman is " old man eloquent " did not live to take his seat in the Legislature . He died June 6 , 1799. A touching inci- dent , recorded of his appearance at the election scene to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 371 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 154 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Página 85 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Página 438 - Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Página 239 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Página 25 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady who, in a dispute with her sister, said, ' I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right — il n'ya que moi qui a toujours raison.
Página 82 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Página 124 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Página 66 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Página 181 - We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear ; When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...