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Strana xvi
... fact with regard to this fundamental question , it need hardly be said , is that literary English in the United States does not differ , except infinites- imally , from that in Great Britain . Vulgar English in the United States , of ...
... fact with regard to this fundamental question , it need hardly be said , is that literary English in the United States does not differ , except infinites- imally , from that in Great Britain . Vulgar English in the United States , of ...
Strana 1
... fact , as one studies him now , Cotton Mather reveals himself , for all his peculiarity , as the most completely typical of Boston Puritans . Almost the last of that stern race , and hardly ever absent from the capital town which they ...
... fact , as one studies him now , Cotton Mather reveals himself , for all his peculiarity , as the most completely typical of Boston Puritans . Almost the last of that stern race , and hardly ever absent from the capital town which they ...
Strana 2
... facts of New England history ; it recounts the lives of the early governors and ministers ; it describes the founding ... fact , then , the Magnalia is untrustworthy ; as a record , on the other hand , of Puritan ideals it is priceless ...
... facts of New England history ; it recounts the lives of the early governors and ministers ; it describes the founding ... fact , then , the Magnalia is untrustworthy ; as a record , on the other hand , of Puritan ideals it is priceless ...
Strana 14
... fact alone made his hearers realize them . Doubtless the things that were real to Edwards were not the things that were real to Franklin . The things that were real to Franklin were phe- nomenal to Edwards and of little concern to him ...
... fact alone made his hearers realize them . Doubtless the things that were real to Edwards were not the things that were real to Franklin . The things that were real to Franklin were phe- nomenal to Edwards and of little concern to him ...
Strana 15
... fact that he was a New Englander who made the world aware of the New England mind . That he should have been a theologian was natural ; so was Cotton Mather , chiefly , who had performed a somewhat similar service half a century before ...
... fact that he was a New Englander who made the world aware of the New England mind . That he should have been a theologian was natural ; so was Cotton Mather , chiefly , who had performed a somewhat similar service half a century before ...
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Strana 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Strana 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Strana 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Strana 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Strana 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Strana 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Strana 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Strana 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Strana 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.