The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Band 3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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... according to Mr Combe , know the art of getting rich leisurely . A restlessness , a striving and driving onward , mark all their movements . The whole of society seems in a state of preternatural activity . Ac- cording to their advocate ...
... according to Mr Combe , know the art of getting rich leisurely . A restlessness , a striving and driving onward , mark all their movements . The whole of society seems in a state of preternatural activity . Ac- cording to their advocate ...
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... Dr Dwight acknowledges that even the sober citizen of Boston is too apt to rush into perilous and daring enterprises . The youth , according to Mr Buckingham , instead of await- 18 MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA .
... Dr Dwight acknowledges that even the sober citizen of Boston is too apt to rush into perilous and daring enterprises . The youth , according to Mr Buckingham , instead of await- 18 MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA .
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... according to Mr Buckingham , instead of await- ing the slow results of industry , looks eagerly round for some rapid road to wealth , some mode of dashing into a fortune ; and if the faintest prospect of this appears , nothing short of ...
... according to Mr Buckingham , instead of await- ing the slow results of industry , looks eagerly round for some rapid road to wealth , some mode of dashing into a fortune ; and if the faintest prospect of this appears , nothing short of ...
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... according to Mr Hamilton , considers himself an impersonation of the honour of the Union , and feels as if all the dignity of his country were concentrated in himself . Yet it does not appear as if he repelled foreign ideas , being ...
... according to Mr Hamilton , considers himself an impersonation of the honour of the Union , and feels as if all the dignity of his country were concentrated in himself . Yet it does not appear as if he repelled foreign ideas , being ...
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... then the Western , or those newly formed , divided according to the two others whence they respectively spring . The VOL . III . C above delineation has been given specially with a view to MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA . 41.
... then the Western , or those newly formed , divided according to the two others whence they respectively spring . The VOL . III . C above delineation has been given specially with a view to MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA . 41.
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Seite 355 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Seite 154 - Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee—there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb : But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone...
Seite 141 - SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow; Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea...
Seite 154 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by...
Seite 139 - Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill. With all the waters of the firmament. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at thy call.
Seite 160 - Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know, Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow ; The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.
Seite 149 - Celestial voices Hymn it unto our souls : according harps, By angel fingers touched when the mild stars Of morning sang together, sound forth still The song of our great immortality...
Seite 138 - THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain. And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
Seite 137 - Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Seite 125 - ... by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit ; by accompanying them in their toils ; by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs — we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age.