The Letters of the British SpyJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 260 sider |
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... recollecting it , perhaps from some injudicious rigour , which he thought had the effect of break- ing his spirit . He was transferred to a classical school in Charles county , Maryland , about forty miles 16 BIOGRAPHY OF.
... recollecting it , perhaps from some injudicious rigour , which he thought had the effect of break- ing his spirit . He was transferred to a classical school in Charles county , Maryland , about forty miles 16 BIOGRAPHY OF.
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... spirits , and broke in , for a time , on his professional occupations and aims ; and with a view , we believe , to diverting his chagrin by change of scene , his friends urged him to allow himself to be nomi nated in the next election ...
... spirits , and broke in , for a time , on his professional occupations and aims ; and with a view , we believe , to diverting his chagrin by change of scene , his friends urged him to allow himself to be nomi nated in the next election ...
Side 43
... spirits , to whom the wit and other fascinations of the new clerk carried their usual allurement . His immediate predecessor , John Stewart , of witty memory , had been displaced from political considerations , the republican party ...
... spirits , to whom the wit and other fascinations of the new clerk carried their usual allurement . His immediate predecessor , John Stewart , of witty memory , had been displaced from political considerations , the republican party ...
Side 59
... spirits cast back on this period of our domestic politics , when , indeed , our foreign relations were so perplexing and pro- voking as unavoidably to sharpen the bitterness of other dissensions . In reviewing these scenes , the author ...
... spirits cast back on this period of our domestic politics , when , indeed , our foreign relations were so perplexing and pro- voking as unavoidably to sharpen the bitterness of other dissensions . In reviewing these scenes , the author ...
Side 61
... spirit , by which the wise and the good will not fail to profit . " But this candid mood was far from prevail- ing at the period which we have reached in this biographical sketch . Questions of portentous magnitude agitated the nation ...
... spirit , by which the wise and the good will not fail to profit . " But this candid mood was far from prevail- ing at the period which we have reached in this biographical sketch . Questions of portentous magnitude agitated the nation ...
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adieu admiration alluvion America appearance argument Atlantic ocean beautiful believe Bladensburg boys British Spy Buffon cause celebrated censure character Cicero continent court curious dear deism Demosthenes doubt earth eastern coast Edmund Randolph effect eloquence eminent fancy feelings force genius gentlemen grace hand hearers heart heaven honour Indians interest James river judgment lava letters light literary look Lord Verulam manner ment miles mind Monticello motion mountains native nature never observation occasion ocean Old Bachelor once opinion orator ornament passage passion Patrick Henry perhaps person political present probably produced profes reader reason remarkable resided Richmond Robert Boyle scene seems shore sketch soul South America speaker spirit style sublime suppose surface talents taste theory thing thought tion truth venerable vigorous Virginia voice western whole WILLIAM WIRT Williamsburg Wirt Wirt's writer young
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Side 225 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Side 194 - Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect is inconceivable.
Side 204 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Side 183 - Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Side 191 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess, that curiosity, to hear the preacher of such a wilderness, was not the least of my motives.
Side 81 - ... we find her shivering at midnight on the winter banks of the Ohio and mingling her tears with the torrents that froze as they fell.
Side 71 - On one side, specimens of sculpture set out, in such order, as to exhibit at a coup d'ceil, the historical progress of that art; from the first rude attempts of the aborigines of our country, up to that exquisite and finished bust of the great patriot himself, from the master hand of Caracci.
Side 184 - Our revels now are ended: these our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Side 198 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Side 57 - ... raillery on their own past misconceptions and mistakes; the same mutual and just admiration and respect for their many virtues and services to mankind. That correspondence was, to them both, one of the most genial employments of their old age; and it reads a lesson of wisdom on the bitterness of party spirit, by which the wise and the good will not fail to profit.