Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1924 - 247 sider |
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Side 234 - 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." It is a poet's verdict ; but it rings in the
Side 112 - is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences, — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion
Side 145 - 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
Side 145 - prevalent in my own day, and to govern two million of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity : and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them. That point nothing else can or ought to determine.
Side 145 - that 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
Side 135 - is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." "Men thinking freely, will,
Side 143 - those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations, not according to abstract ideas of right, by no means according to mere general theories of government, the resort to which appears to me, in our present situation, no better than arrant trifling.
Side 146 - preventing the sore evil of harsh, crude, unqualified reformations, and rendering all the headlong exertions of arbitrary power, in the few or in the many, forever impracticable. Through that diversity of members and interests, general liberty had as many securities as there are
Side 135 - it is our business to keep free from the evils attendant upon it ; and not to fly from the situation itself. If a fortress is seated in an unwholesome air, an officer of the garrison is obliged to be attentive to his health, but he must not desert his station.
Side 15 - makes surrender to some thoughtless boy, And dotes the more upon a heart at ease. " Ye love-sick bards, repay her scorn with scorn ; Ye love-sick artists, madmen that ye are, Make your best bow to her and bid adieu ; Then, if she likes it, she will follow