The North American Reader: Containing a Great Variety of Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from Very Highly Esteemed American and English Writers ... Designed for the Use of the Highest Classes in Schools and AcademiesHarper & brothers, 1835 - 504 strani |
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Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
Aaron Burr affections American amidst appeared arms army beauty blessed bosom breath character classick constitutions of Switzerland dark death defence of Praga delight earth father feeling feet forest give glory gratitude Greece guerite hand happiness heart Heaven Herculaneum honour hope hour human Indian influence irreligion labour Lafayette land LESSON liberty light live look lyre Macedon magick ment mind mingled moral mother Mount Vesuvius mountains musick nation nature never Newburgh letters night noble o'er object passed passions patriotism peace Pompeii pride principles proud publick republick river rocks Rolla ruins scene Scythians seahorse seemed sentiment shore silent soul speak spirit stream sublime superiour tears Tell tender thee thing thou thought thousand tion toil trees virtue vital current voice warriours waters waves whole wild wind words young youth
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Stran 222 - 10. Still one thing more, fellow-citizens ; a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another ; shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement; and shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government; and this
Stran 472 - law, or in the heads of departments. „ 3. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. SECTION III. 1. He shall, from time to time, give
Stran 220 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection, without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things ; and let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as
Stran 260 - enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. LESSON
Stran 158 - If, therefore, to use the often-quoted, and deservedly often-quoted language of Johnson, " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona
Stran 477 - equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. Miscellaneous. 1. All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation. 2. This Constitution, and the laws of
Stran 208 - Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth; the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Stran 209 - The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron, and maid, And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man, Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them.
Stran 209 - summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but,
Stran 220 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that, though the will of the majority is, in all cases, to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression. Let us then, fellowcitizens, unite with one heart and one mind.