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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... Holland , the activity of France , or the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ; " and this by a people " who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood . " Still more ...
... Holland , the activity of France , or the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ; " and this by a people " who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood . " Still more ...
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... Holland , by the Dutch and the Walloons , was only the counterpart of this . An eminent American has made it familiar , in our time , to all who admire heroism in action , and eloquence in story . Mr. Motley has said of William the ...
... Holland , by the Dutch and the Walloons , was only the counterpart of this . An eminent American has made it familiar , in our time , to all who admire heroism in action , and eloquence in story . Mr. Motley has said of William the ...
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... Holland ; and while wolves and Indians filled the forests , which then extended from Canal Street to Harlem , the life * Rise of the Dutch Republic . Vol . III . , page 219 . Attitude of the Netherlands . in the two separated ...
... Holland ; and while wolves and Indians filled the forests , which then extended from Canal Street to Harlem , the life * Rise of the Dutch Republic . Vol . III . , page 219 . Attitude of the Netherlands . in the two separated ...
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... Holland ; and those who came hither could not but bring it , unless they had dropped their identity on the way . They came for trade . They came to purchase lands by labor ; to get what they could from the virgin soil , and send ...
... Holland ; and those who came hither could not but bring it , unless they had dropped their identity on the way . They came for trade . They came to purchase lands by labor ; to get what they could from the virgin soil , and send ...
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... English carpenters with oak shingles , which , by exposure to the weather , soon ' looked like slate . ' Brodhead's Hist . of New York . Vol . I. , pp . 336-7 . Huguenot movement in France . Holland . The Huguenot movement 50 Address .
... English carpenters with oak shingles , which , by exposure to the weather , soon ' looked like slate . ' Brodhead's Hist . of New York . Vol . I. , pp . 336-7 . Huguenot movement in France . Holland . The Huguenot movement 50 Address .
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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