The MonikinsD. Appleton, 1868 - 491 sider |
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Side 383 - Your sacred rights are in danger ; your dearest liberties are menaced ; your wives and children are on the point of dissolution ; the infamous and unconstitutional position that the sun gives light by day, and the moon by night, is openly and impudently propagated, and now is the only occasion that will probably ever offer to arrest an error so pregnant with deception and domestic evils. We present to your notice a suitable defender of all...
Side 329 - the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of our own actions." [See Johnson's Dictionary, page 163, letter C. London edition. Rivington, publisher.] Now, in what manner can one judge of the goodness or wickedness of his acts, or of those of any other person, if he...
Side 92 - It is true that, with superficial observers, the instance of my own immediate ancestor might be supposed to form an exception, or rather an objection, to the theory. So far from this being the case, however, it proves the very reverse. My father, in a great measure, had concentrated all his investments in the national debt. Now, beyond all cavil he loved the funds intensely ; grew violent when they were assailed; cried out for bayonets when the mass declaimed against taxation ; eulogized the gallows,...