Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 páginas |
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... constitutions . Epics are better mirrors of manners than chronicles ; dramas oftentimes let you into the secrets of stat- utes ; orations stirred by a deep energy of emotion or resolution , passionate pamphlets that survive their ...
... constitutions . Epics are better mirrors of manners than chronicles ; dramas oftentimes let you into the secrets of stat- utes ; orations stirred by a deep energy of emotion or resolution , passionate pamphlets that survive their ...
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... constitutions , theologies , philosophies more fanciful than the romances encased in neigh- bor volumes on another shelf . But they were books which were used to being taken down and read ; they had been daily companions to the rest of ...
... constitutions , theologies , philosophies more fanciful than the romances encased in neigh- bor volumes on another shelf . But they were books which were used to being taken down and read ; they had been daily companions to the rest of ...
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... constitution of the modern world . It is to be suspected that , as a matter of fact , mind is one of those modern monarchs who reign , but do not govern . That old House of Commons , that popular chamber in which the pas- sions , the ...
... constitution of the modern world . It is to be suspected that , as a matter of fact , mind is one of those modern monarchs who reign , but do not govern . That old House of Commons , that popular chamber in which the pas- sions , the ...
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... have no permanent place among them . ' T would be a vast gain to have the laws of that community better known than they are . Even the - first principles of its constitution are singularly unfamiliar . 64 AN AUTHOR'S COMPANY .
... have no permanent place among them . ' T would be a vast gain to have the laws of that community better known than they are . Even the - first principles of its constitution are singularly unfamiliar . 64 AN AUTHOR'S COMPANY .
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Woodrow Wilson. - first principles of its constitution are singularly unfamiliar . It is not a community of writers , but a community of letters . One gets admission , not because he writes , write he never so cleverly , like a gentleman ...
Woodrow Wilson. - first principles of its constitution are singularly unfamiliar . It is not a community of writers , but a community of letters . One gets admission , not because he writes , write he never so cleverly , like a gentleman ...
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Página 240 - He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Página 143 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 147 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Página 148 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Página 153 - We see that the parts of the system do not clash. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. One advantage is as little as possible sacrificed to another. We compensate, we reconcile, we balance. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. From hence arises, not an excellence in simplicity, but, one far superior, an excellence in composition.
Página 106 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 147 - Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire by a unity of spirit, though in a diversity of operations, that, if I were sure the colonists had, at their leaving this country, sealed a regular compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their posterity to all generations, yet I should hold myself obliged to conform to the temper I found...
Página 146 - I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict; and still less in the midst of it. I may escape ; but I can make no insurance against such an event. Let me add, that I do not choose wholly to break the American spirit; because it is the spirit that has made the country.
Página 146 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Página 133 - Now we who know Mr. Burke, know, that he will be one of the first men in the country.