American Literature 1607-1885, Volym 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889 |
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... Thomas Paine contend against Plato ? " Pre- vious to the Revolution things had been , of course , in a worse condition , and fulsome puffery of such writers as Anne Bradstreet or Phillis Wheatley- mere curiosities in the field of ...
... Thomas Paine contend against Plato ? " Pre- vious to the Revolution things had been , of course , in a worse condition , and fulsome puffery of such writers as Anne Bradstreet or Phillis Wheatley- mere curiosities in the field of ...
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... Thomas Paine ; Albert Gallatin ; John Marshall ; and Joseph Story . Makers of the Nation . Thomas Jefferson , the first and greatest of Ameri- can Democrats , in his lifetime as cordially hated by political enemies as revered by ...
... Thomas Paine ; Albert Gallatin ; John Marshall ; and Joseph Story . Makers of the Nation . Thomas Jefferson , the first and greatest of Ameri- can Democrats , in his lifetime as cordially hated by political enemies as revered by ...
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... Thomas Paine , Albert Gallatin , John Marshall , and Joseph Story was less prominent than that of the men whose names have last been considered , and less important as indicating the intellectual bent of the United States in its early ...
... Thomas Paine , Albert Gallatin , John Marshall , and Joseph Story was less prominent than that of the men whose names have last been considered , and less important as indicating the intellectual bent of the United States in its early ...
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... literature must be founded ; indeed , one of them , Story , began his career as a sentimental poet . A different mind gov- Story , erned the luckless Thomas Paine , whose rough but vigorous 210 American Literature , 1607-1885 .
... literature must be founded ; indeed , one of them , Story , began his career as a sentimental poet . A different mind gov- Story , erned the luckless Thomas Paine , whose rough but vigorous 210 American Literature , 1607-1885 .
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... Thomas Paine , The later oratory of the United States was really of higher literary ability than the earlier , though it was , as a rule , less picturesque and less startling in its immediate results . What it lacked in spontaneity it ...
... Thomas Paine , The later oratory of the United States was really of higher literary ability than the earlier , though it was , as a rule , less picturesque and less startling in its immediate results . What it lacked in spontaneity it ...
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Sida 153 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Sida 189 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?
Sida 255 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his...
Sida 255 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Sida 196 - Sometimes it is said, that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or, have we found angels in the form of kings, to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Sida 180 - Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved...
Sida 254 - The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Sida 196 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Sida 410 - Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood. Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe ; His strength is so tender, his...
Sida 204 - ... the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the pre-eminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world.