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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... this will be repeated the narrative — not less impressive — of the civil wonders which accompanied the long military struggle ; of the separate Mr. Bancroft's History. Constitutions adopted by the colonies ; of 16 Address.
... this will be repeated the narrative — not less impressive — of the civil wonders which accompanied the long military struggle ; of the separate Mr. Bancroft's History. Constitutions adopted by the colonies ; of 16 Address.
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... would offer some remarks . It was just one hundred years ago , on the twenty- second of March last , that Edmund Burke delivered in the British Parliament that speech on " Concilia- tion with the Colonies , " which , of itself 7.
... would offer some remarks . It was just one hundred years ago , on the twenty- second of March last , that Edmund Burke delivered in the British Parliament that speech on " Concilia- tion with the Colonies , " which , of itself 7.
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... Colonies , " which , of itself , would have assured the fame of any speaker . The profoundest political and legislative wisdom was presented in it with perspicuous clearness , and enforced with an elo- quence which Burke himself never ...
... Colonies , " which , of itself , would have assured the fame of any speaker . The profoundest political and legislative wisdom was presented in it with perspicuous clearness , and enforced with an elo- quence which Burke himself never ...
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... colonies : " out of all pro- portion , beyond the numbers of the people ; " in re- spect to which " fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful , and imagination cold and barren . " Of their expanding agriculture , he said ...
... colonies : " out of all pro- portion , beyond the numbers of the people ; " in re- spect to which " fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful , and imagination cold and barren . " Of their expanding agriculture , he said ...
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... colonies , particularly the ex- tent to which the study of the law was cultivated among them , contributed to their untractable spirit . It led them , not , “ like more simple people , to judge of an ill principle in government only by ...
... colonies , particularly the ex- tent to which the study of the law was cultivated among them , contributed to their untractable spirit . It led them , not , “ like more simple people , to judge of an ill principle in government only by ...
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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