The Early American Spirit, and the Genesis of it: An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, at the Celebration of Its Seventieth Anniversary, April 15th, 1875A.D.F. Randolph & Company, 1875 - 74 Seiten |
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770 BROADWAY afterward Albert Gallatin amid Amsterdam ancient annals ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH blood born BRIGHT brought Burke century civil coasts colonies colonists commerce Congress conquer continent cultivated Dutch Dutch Republic earlier EARLY AMERICAN SPIRIT Egbert Benson element eloquence energetic energy England English enterprise established faith fathers force Fort Orange fought France freedom French gave GENESIS German Harlem Harvard College Henry Bright heroic Hist hither Holland Huguenot hundred impulse influence Jamestown John John Pintard JONATHAN BROWN King labor land liberty look manhood Milton mind ministers narrative nation Netherlands never Northern Europe numbers oration Parliament passion Plymouth Plymouth Colony political popular population Protestant Raleigh recall religion religious represented Republic RICHARD Rufus King Samuel L seas settlements SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY Shakespeare shores Spain splendor STORRS Sweden swift temper tion trained tyranny uttered vast vehement vital wealth wilderness William the Silent word youth
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Seite 23 - He was a person for study as well as action : and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages. The Dutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as the English. The French tongue he could also manage. The Latin and Greek he had mastered. But the Hebrew, he most of all studied, Because, he said, he would see with his own eyes the ancient Oracles of GOD in their native beauty.
Seite 55 - And surely they that shall boast, as we do, to be a free nation, and not have in themselves the power to remove or to abolish any governor, supreme or subordinate, with...
Seite 47 - ... the little one became a thousand, and the small one a strong nation, there is no province for anticipation in public affairs, and " the philosophy of history