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... Europe more propitious to liberty ; why the Egyptians were abject and melancholy ; the Greeks inventive , elegant , and versatile ; the Romans stern , saturnine , and , in matters of literature , for the most part servile imitators of a ...
... Europe more propitious to liberty ; why the Egyptians were abject and melancholy ; the Greeks inventive , elegant , and versatile ; the Romans stern , saturnine , and , in matters of literature , for the most part servile imitators of a ...
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... European peasantry , in the place of , perhaps , the most substantial , uncorrupted population on earth , the American ... Europe , to toil and bleed for a Power too great to keep or to resign . Where the compulsion stops short of these ...
... European peasantry , in the place of , perhaps , the most substantial , uncorrupted population on earth , the American ... Europe , to toil and bleed for a Power too great to keep or to resign . Where the compulsion stops short of these ...
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... Europe have encouraged letters , it has not been in that of a steady , cheer- ing patronage . We may think there is abundant reason to acknowledge , that the ancient lesson is confirmed by modern expe- rience , and that popular ...
... Europe have encouraged letters , it has not been in that of a steady , cheer- ing patronage . We may think there is abundant reason to acknowledge , that the ancient lesson is confirmed by modern expe- rience , and that popular ...
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... Europe and America . Now mark a singular fatality as regards the connexion of this enlarged and diffused civilization , with the progress of letters and the excitement to intellectual exer- tion in any given state . Instead of one sole ...
... Europe and America . Now mark a singular fatality as regards the connexion of this enlarged and diffused civilization , with the progress of letters and the excitement to intellectual exer- tion in any given state . Instead of one sole ...
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... Europe , seems to confirm the justice of the observation . There is , indeed , an influence of exalted genius co - extensive with the earth . Something of its power will be felt , in spite of the obstacles of different languages ...
... Europe , seems to confirm the justice of the observation . There is , indeed , an influence of exalted genius co - extensive with the earth . Something of its power will be felt , in spite of the obstacles of different languages ...
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Page 27 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 427 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 585 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 553 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 637 - Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.
Page 428 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 37 - Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 128 - ' These shall resist the empire of decay, When time is o'er, and worlds have passed away: Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie, But that which warmed it once can never die.
Page 372 - She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there...
Page 324 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and to perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.