Homes of American Statesmen: With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive SketchesG. P. Putnam and Company, 1854 - 469 頁 "Notable for being the first American book illustrated with an original photograph, which is a salt print of the Hancock House in Boston tipped in as a frontispiece. Pencil inscription under photograph stating 'Hancock House Boston, An Original Sun Picture.'" -- AbeBooks, via WWW, Feb. 13, 2013. |
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第 428 頁 - Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arm Are strong as iron bands. " His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan,
第 43 頁 - now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public Ufe.
第 31 頁 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances, in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and
第 428 頁 - brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'cr he can, And looks the whole world in the face For he owes not any man. " Week in, week out, from morn to night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low.
第 63 頁 - it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by an invention of ours : and this we should do freely and
第 9 頁 - A creature who, endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and, upright, with front serene, Govern the rest, self-knowing ; and from thence, Magnanimous, to correspond with Heaven ; But, grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither, with heart and voice and eyes, Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief Of all his works.
第 18 頁 - I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. These, I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.
第 238 頁 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of ALEXANDER HAMILTON."*
第 46 頁 - I have felt all that love, respect and attachment for you, with which length of years, close connection, and your merits have inspired me. I often asked myself, as our carriages separated, whether that was the last sight I should ever have of you ? And though I wished to say No ! my fears answered Yes
第 23 頁 - I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds a year would not induce me to undergo what I do ; and after all, perhaps, to lose my character, as it is impossible, under such a variety of distressing circumstances, to