The Works of Charles Sumner, Volumen12Lee and Shepard, 1877 |
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... doubt he will be mistaken . " 2 I own " Thursday night , " 11th December , 1777 , his feelings overflow in no common language : Burke " Was ever proud , insolent nation sunk so low ? and Charles Fox told him [ Lord North ] the ...
... doubt he will be mistaken . " 2 I own " Thursday night , " 11th December , 1777 , his feelings overflow in no common language : Burke " Was ever proud , insolent nation sunk so low ? and Charles Fox told him [ Lord North ] the ...
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... doubts , he invokes time , civilization , education , and breaks forth : ― " Perhaps then it will be seen that America is ... doubt , that the first ray of the sciences will shoot forth , if they are to appear at last under a sky so long ...
... doubts , he invokes time , civilization , education , and breaks forth : ― " Perhaps then it will be seen that America is ... doubt , that the first ray of the sciences will shoot forth , if they are to appear at last under a sky so long ...
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... doubt not , will come , in the progressive im- provement of human affairs , when the checks and restraints we lay on the industry of our fellow - subjects and the jeal- ousies we conceive at their prosperity will be considered as the ...
... doubt not , will come , in the progressive im- provement of human affairs , when the checks and restraints we lay on the industry of our fellow - subjects and the jeal- ousies we conceive at their prosperity will be considered as the ...
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... doubt " but that a sep- aration would take place " within half a century . " 4 Though seeing the separation so clearly , he did not see how near at hand it then was . The Dean grew more earnest . Other pamphlets fol- lowed for instance ...
... doubt " but that a sep- aration would take place " within half a century . " 4 Though seeing the separation so clearly , he did not see how near at hand it then was . The Dean grew more earnest . Other pamphlets fol- lowed for instance ...
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... doubt if any one can be named who was his equal in strenuous action , or in minuteness of fore- sight . While the war was still proceeding , as early as 1780 , he openly announced , not only that inde- pendence was inevitable , but that ...
... doubt if any one can be named who was his equal in strenuous action , or in minuteness of fore- sight . While the war was still proceeding , as early as 1780 , he openly announced , not only that inde- pendence was inevitable , but that ...
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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