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... give a sym- pathetic impulse to those who hear . The desolate misan- thropy of his mind rises , and throws its dark shade over his poetry , like one of his own ruined castles ; we feel it to be sublime , but we forget that it is a ...
... give a sym- pathetic impulse to those who hear . The desolate misan- thropy of his mind rises , and throws its dark shade over his poetry , like one of his own ruined castles ; we feel it to be sublime , but we forget that it is a ...
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... and to those other mighty intel- lects on whom the light of the holy oracles never shined . Who that has read his poem has not observed how he strove In vain to give dignity to the mythology of his 28 COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF PROSE .
... and to those other mighty intel- lects on whom the light of the holy oracles never shined . Who that has read his poem has not observed how he strove In vain to give dignity to the mythology of his 28 COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF PROSE .
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... give dignity to the mythology of his time ? Who has not seen how the religion of his country , unable to support the flight of his imagination , sunk powerless be- neath him ? It is the unseen world , where the master spir- its of our ...
... give dignity to the mythology of his time ? Who has not seen how the religion of his country , unable to support the flight of his imagination , sunk powerless be- neath him ? It is the unseen world , where the master spir- its of our ...
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... give to the portrait both interest and resemblance ; for it requires thought and study to under- stand the true ground of the superiority of his character over many others , whom he resembled in the principles < f action , and even in ...
... give to the portrait both interest and resemblance ; for it requires thought and study to under- stand the true ground of the superiority of his character over many others , whom he resembled in the principles < f action , and even in ...
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... gives to the soul . To know that our hour for toil is come , and that we are weak and unprepared ; to feel that depression or lassitude is weighing us down , when we must feign lightness and mirth ; or to mock our secret griefs with ...
... gives to the soul . To know that our hour for toil is come , and that we are weak and unprepared ; to feel that depression or lassitude is weighing us down , when we must feign lightness and mirth ; or to mock our secret griefs with ...
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Page 70 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 174 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 172 - ... agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging, in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected.
Page 162 - We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If -it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.
Page 259 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 71 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 161 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Page 172 - ... and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services, faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our...
Page 162 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured, that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven.
Page 174 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world. To myself, the assurance of my own conscience is, that I have at least believed myself to be guided by them.