The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1819 |
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Strana 29
... happy as when he is engaged in vindicating the reputation of our country from the foul slander of European li- bellers , in encouraging the modest merits of our candidates for literary fame , and in maintaining the exalted claims of our ...
... happy as when he is engaged in vindicating the reputation of our country from the foul slander of European li- bellers , in encouraging the modest merits of our candidates for literary fame , and in maintaining the exalted claims of our ...
Strana 36
... happy , live in constant fear to die , The wretched , hope for immortality , & c . p . 14. 15 . All which " originality of sentiment , " must have been very vexa- tious to the sick man , who would most unpatriotically have voted for its ...
... happy , live in constant fear to die , The wretched , hope for immortality , & c . p . 14. 15 . All which " originality of sentiment , " must have been very vexa- tious to the sick man , who would most unpatriotically have voted for its ...
Strana 39
... Happy is that country in having scribblers who call themselves wise ! Happy , too , in having ministers ( publishers ) who keep the scribblers in countenance ! And why should not I also assure my readers that this little performance ...
... Happy is that country in having scribblers who call themselves wise ! Happy , too , in having ministers ( publishers ) who keep the scribblers in countenance ! And why should not I also assure my readers that this little performance ...
Strana 44
... happy , instead of being punished for crimes which are not theirs , and which attach only to their mas- ters . The whole tenor of history seems to prove that there is no region in the world , the conquest of which would be easier than ...
... happy , instead of being punished for crimes which are not theirs , and which attach only to their mas- ters . The whole tenor of history seems to prove that there is no region in the world , the conquest of which would be easier than ...
Strana 61
... happy I was to find , after the long toil of digging it up , that my conclusion was well founded . Both Le Bruyn and Chardin have only given one line of figures on the left of the stair - case ; but , as it was evident that , in order ...
... happy I was to find , after the long toil of digging it up , that my conclusion was well founded . Both Le Bruyn and Chardin have only given one line of figures on the left of the stair - case ; but , as it was evident that , in order ...
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Strana 266 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Strana 23 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Strana 245 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and po'verty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Strana 153 - And opened on a narrow green, Where weeping birch and willow round With their long fibres swept the ground; Here, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower.
Strana 326 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Strana 269 - The Congress shall have Power 1 To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States...
Strana 141 - In short, every summer one lives in a state of mutiny and murmur, and I have found the reason: it is because we will affect to have a summer, and we have no title to any such thing. Our poets learnt their trade of the Romans, and so adopted the terms of their masters. They talk of shady groves, purling streams, and cooling breezes, and we get sore throats and agues with attempting to realize these visions.
Strana 269 - To borrow Money on the credit of the United States ; 3 To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes...
Strana 316 - ... sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts tomorrow.
Strana 302 - And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best; whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once...