The Works of Charles Sumner, Volumen12Lee and Shepard, 1877 |
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... England , prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicles , and dated 1586 , one of these gifts is mentioned : " Of the potato and such venerous roots as are brought out of Spaine , Portingale , and the Indies to furnish vp our bankets , I speake ...
... England , prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicles , and dated 1586 , one of these gifts is mentioned : " Of the potato and such venerous roots as are brought out of Spaine , Portingale , and the Indies to furnish vp our bankets , I speake ...
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... England looking , Kissing her hand , bowing her mighty breast , 1 Euvres , ( Paris , 1821-23 , ) Tom . VIII . p . 336. Curiosities of Literature , ( Lon- don , 1849 , ) Vol . III . p . 301 , note . And every sign of all submission ...
... England looking , Kissing her hand , bowing her mighty breast , 1 Euvres , ( Paris , 1821-23 , ) Tom . VIII . p . 336. Curiosities of Literature , ( Lon- don , 1849 , ) Vol . III . p . 301 , note . And every sign of all submission ...
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... England , saying that it had " purged more virulent humors from the politic body than guaiacum and all the West Indian drugs have from the natural bodies of this kingdom . " 4 But these words uttered at the English Court were praise . 8 ...
... England , saying that it had " purged more virulent humors from the politic body than guaiacum and all the West Indian drugs have from the natural bodies of this kingdom . " 4 But these words uttered at the English Court were praise . 8 ...
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... England Old ! If evil times ensue , Let good men come to us , We'll welcome them to New . " Another witness we meet in the writings of Franklin . It is George Webb , who , decamping from Oxford and the temptations of scholarship ...
... England Old ! If evil times ensue , Let good men come to us , We'll welcome them to New . " Another witness we meet in the writings of Franklin . It is George Webb , who , decamping from Oxford and the temptations of scholarship ...
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... England , as poets are wont to give a personal form to what they please , how would she appear , think ye , but in a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head and tears abundantly flowing from her eyes , to behold so many of her children ...
... England , as poets are wont to give a personal form to what they please , how would she appear , think ye , but in a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head and tears abundantly flowing from her eyes , to behold so many of her children ...
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Página 60 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Página 60 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Página 288 - ... that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's " Commentaries
Página 244 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Página 28 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 8 - Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our Antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light.
Página 59 - Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States...
Página 399 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Página 399 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 155 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than, a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a