A Voice to America: Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: with a Review of the Causes of the Decline and Failure of the Republics of South America, Mexico, and of the Old World; Applied to the Present Crisis in the United StatesE. Walker, 1855 - 404 sidor |
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... thought is encouraged ; and the result of our school systems , which are confessedly the best extant , is such as fully to uphold their claim to superiority . In those parts of the country where they have reached their completest devel ...
... thought is encouraged ; and the result of our school systems , which are confessedly the best extant , is such as fully to uphold their claim to superiority . In those parts of the country where they have reached their completest devel ...
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... thought remarkable that the mail came through from New York to Philadelphia in three days , now numbers twenty- five thousand post - offices , and sends its mail - bags over two hundred and twenty thousand miles of roads . Seventy years ...
... thought remarkable that the mail came through from New York to Philadelphia in three days , now numbers twenty- five thousand post - offices , and sends its mail - bags over two hundred and twenty thousand miles of roads . Seventy years ...
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... thought , in every sphere of labor , physical or mental . It would be too long a story to enumerate the daring of our exploring seamen ; the exhaustless fertility and practical adaptedness of our myriads of inventors ; the triumphs of ...
... thought , in every sphere of labor , physical or mental . It would be too long a story to enumerate the daring of our exploring seamen ; the exhaustless fertility and practical adaptedness of our myriads of inventors ; the triumphs of ...
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... thought is moulding the opinions of the world . Ever since the pub- lication of the Declaration of Independence our statesmen have been confessedly , for breadth and depth of thought , and for power of reason- ing , the ablest of the ...
... thought is moulding the opinions of the world . Ever since the pub- lication of the Declaration of Independence our statesmen have been confessedly , for breadth and depth of thought , and for power of reason- ing , the ablest of the ...
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... has given to man , and which are as comprehensive as the uni- " verse of matter and of thought in which he exists . THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS : A GLANCE AT EARLY CIVILIZATION . UNITED STATES - RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE . 25.
... has given to man , and which are as comprehensive as the uni- " verse of matter and of thought in which he exists . THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS : A GLANCE AT EARLY CIVILIZATION . UNITED STATES - RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE . 25.
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Sida 398 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial ; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it.
Sida 32 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Sida 397 - Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Sida 394 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Sida 32 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Sida 32 - Puritan was made up of two different men, — the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Sida 400 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Sida 398 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Sida 32 - ... before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account.
Sida 395 - That from and after the fourth day of July next, the Flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.