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We genious , subtil , versatile , " forgetive "never read any verses , produced by
one a most remarkable man , but not a great at the same tender years , so utterly
defi- poet . Nothing about his works “ wears cient in moral sense . Their gilded ...
We genious , subtil , versatile , " forgetive "never read any verses , produced by
one a most remarkable man , but not a great at the same tender years , so utterly
defi- poet . Nothing about his works “ wears cient in moral sense . Their gilded ...
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In this situation he Diety in spite of them . soon felt and saw the inefficiency of the
Mr. Jay used to remark that if men old confederation , and he soon after open-
would never forget that the world was ed a correspondence with Washington and
...
In this situation he Diety in spite of them . soon felt and saw the inefficiency of the
Mr. Jay used to remark that if men old confederation , and he soon after open-
would never forget that the world was ed a correspondence with Washington and
...
Page 66
He tendencies and results of a self - sacrificing was never a “ man of party . ” In
the spirit . Between such , the world , even , common acceptation of the word , he
had will yet be able to judge . no ambition . Nor had he any enthusiJay , in his ...
He tendencies and results of a self - sacrificing was never a “ man of party . ” In
the spirit . Between such , the world , even , common acceptation of the word , he
had will yet be able to judge . no ambition . Nor had he any enthusiJay , in his ...
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When I entered serving person . the ship to sail for Europe , I was twenty - five I
had no disease the physicians “ Too generally is it true , that the Ameri- could
name , and yet I was broken down , can never abandons his business till his busi
...
When I entered serving person . the ship to sail for Europe , I was twenty - five I
had no disease the physicians “ Too generally is it true , that the Ameri- could
name , and yet I was broken down , can never abandons his business till his busi
...
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I had no disease the physicians “ Too generally it true , that the Ameri- could
name , and yet I was broken down , can never abandons his business till his busi
worn out . I felt as though I had lived a cenness abandons him ; and so far has
this ...
I had no disease the physicians “ Too generally it true , that the Ameri- could
name , and yet I was broken down , can never abandons his business till his busi
worn out . I felt as though I had lived a cenness abandons him ; and so far has
this ...
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Page 34 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 34 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 329 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 34 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 33 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 206 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 177 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Page 33 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 329 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 384 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.