Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States of America: Being a Fragment of a Private Correspondence, Accidentally Discovered in Europe, Containing a Favorable View of the Manners, Literature, and State of Society of the United States, and a Refutation of Many of the Aspersions Cast Upon this Country by Former Residents and TouristsI. Riley, 1810 - 165 頁 |
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... America : being a fragment of a private correspondence , acci- " dentally discovered in Europe ; containing a favourable view of the 66 manners , literature , and state of society , of the United States , and a re- " futation of many of ...
... America : being a fragment of a private correspondence , acci- " dentally discovered in Europe ; containing a favourable view of the 66 manners , literature , and state of society , of the United States , and a re- " futation of many of ...
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... America . " From internal evidence , and as a more saleable designation , they have been denominated " The Jesuit's Letters . " They are given to the world by the American editor , precisely as he has been assured they were found in ...
... America . " From internal evidence , and as a more saleable designation , they have been denominated " The Jesuit's Letters . " They are given to the world by the American editor , precisely as he has been assured they were found in ...
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... America , where their em- pire was distinguished by wisdom and tranquillity . For many years past , this once flourishing and influential association , has been degraded , dispersed and diminishing . Their name has become a designation ...
... America , where their em- pire was distinguished by wisdom and tranquillity . For many years past , this once flourishing and influential association , has been degraded , dispersed and diminishing . Their name has become a designation ...
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... America , has given his countrymen an edition of the Studies of Nature . But it is to be regretted , that he has not introduced his work with any biographi- cal sketch of the author : because , independent of the desire of most readers ...
... America , has given his countrymen an edition of the Studies of Nature . But it is to be regretted , that he has not introduced his work with any biographi- cal sketch of the author : because , independent of the desire of most readers ...
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... America . Even the faces , figures , and costume of the American females , if not unworthy your pen , would be agreeable to our peru- sal . I presume they are infinitely mixed . What with the original English leaven , the aboriginal ...
... America . Even the faces , figures , and costume of the American females , if not unworthy your pen , would be agreeable to our peru- sal . I presume they are infinitely mixed . What with the original English leaven , the aboriginal ...
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第 106 頁 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
第 115 頁 - The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay : they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms ; and from them, collectively considered, must the measure of general prosperity be taken.
第 145 頁 - As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
第 67 頁 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
第 107 頁 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward.
第 57 頁 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
第 66 頁 - How vain then, how idle, how presumptuous, is the opinion, that laws can do every thing ! and how weak and pernicious the maxim founded upon it, that measures, not men, are to be attended to...
第 107 頁 - Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves.
第 54 頁 - Representatives, had sauntered into the hall, and, were, with their attendants, sacrificing some impatient moments to the inscrutable mysteries of pleading. On the opposite side was a group of Indians, who are here on a visit to the President...