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... hope , which must intervene before he can break through the barriers of professional success , and pioneer his way through the rugged ascents and deso- late bleaknesses that lie before even the most gifted and gallant adventurer . Some ...
... hope , which must intervene before he can break through the barriers of professional success , and pioneer his way through the rugged ascents and deso- late bleaknesses that lie before even the most gifted and gallant adventurer . Some ...
Side 82
... hope and encourage- ment ; and you will go out of the world , fretted , dis- appointed , and ruined ! " Nothing but my real regard for you , could induce me to set those considerations in this light before you . Remember , we are born ...
... hope and encourage- ment ; and you will go out of the world , fretted , dis- appointed , and ruined ! " Nothing but my real regard for you , could induce me to set those considerations in this light before you . Remember , we are born ...
Side 99
... hope of conciliation is left . Power and au- thority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms , by an impoverished and defeated violence . A further objection to force is , that you impair the object by ...
... hope of conciliation is left . Power and au- thority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms , by an impoverished and defeated violence . A further objection to force is , that you impair the object by ...
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... hope of reconciling the countries ; and supported his repeated proposals with an enthu- siasm of eloquence which held the House in perpetual astonishment . A speech in which he denounced the employment of the Indian savages , as an ...
... hope of reconciling the countries ; and supported his repeated proposals with an enthu- siasm of eloquence which held the House in perpetual astonishment . A speech in which he denounced the employment of the Indian savages , as an ...
Side 123
... hope , pronounced the man all but a traitor , who advised moderation . Bristol , angry at finding that he was not a slave , branded him as a renegade ; and under the pitiless , pelting storm " of rabble obloquy , this emi- nent man ...
... hope , pronounced the man all but a traitor , who advised moderation . Bristol , angry at finding that he was not a slave , branded him as a renegade ; and under the pitiless , pelting storm " of rabble obloquy , this emi- nent man ...
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Side 39 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Side 148 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Side 98 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Side 102 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Side 89 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Side 102 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate, indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! Excuse me, Sir, if turning from such thoughts I resume this comparative view once more.
Side 98 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the I775O CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. 29! haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit...
Side 100 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow; a square of five hundred miles.
Side 171 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Side 90 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred...