The United States as a Nation: Lectures on the Centennial of American Independence Given at Berlin, Dresden, Florence, Paris, and LondonJ.R. Osgood, 1877 - 323 頁 |
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第 vi 頁
... foreign war , of financial crises , of territorial expansion , of promiscuous immigration , of threatened disintegration with civil war , and the assassination of the Head of the State . No other government has endured so many and so ...
... foreign war , of financial crises , of territorial expansion , of promiscuous immigration , of threatened disintegration with civil war , and the assassination of the Head of the State . No other government has endured so many and so ...
第 x 頁
... foreign countries , in the study of their peo- ples and institutions , and in intercourse with their better citizens , I have dispossessed myself of narrow national prejudices , and am able to speak of my own country with more of ...
... foreign countries , in the study of their peo- ples and institutions , and in intercourse with their better citizens , I have dispossessed myself of narrow national prejudices , and am able to speak of my own country with more of ...
第 6 頁
... foreign trade of England at the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury with the whole world . " No sea , " said Mr. Burke , " but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils . Neither the perseverance ...
... foreign trade of England at the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury with the whole world . " No sea , " said Mr. Burke , " but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils . Neither the perseverance ...
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... foreign foes . That hand- ful of the men of Lexington , who , on the morning of the 19th April , 1775 , drew themselves up in military order on their village green to await the British regulars , repre- sented the town in its ancient ...
... foreign foes . That hand- ful of the men of Lexington , who , on the morning of the 19th April , 1775 , drew themselves up in military order on their village green to await the British regulars , repre- sented the town in its ancient ...
第 58 頁
... foreign mercenaries . At this stage , the American philosopher wrote to a former friend in London , 1- MR . STRAHAN , -You are a member of Parliament , and one of that majority who has doomed my country to destruction . You have begun ...
... foreign mercenaries . At this stage , the American philosopher wrote to a former friend in London , 1- MR . STRAHAN , -You are a member of Parliament , and one of that majority who has doomed my country to destruction . You have begun ...
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第 95 頁 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
第 179 頁 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions will afford a happy issue to the...
第 248 頁 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
第 160 頁 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
第 60 頁 - 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 the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
第 191 頁 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
第 197 頁 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
第 139 頁 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
第 211 頁 - ... painted The ruddy tints of health On haggard face and form that drooped and fainted In the fierce race for wealth; Till one arose, and from his pack's scant treasure A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster, And as the fire-light fell, He read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of "Little Nell...
第 139 頁 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.