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, 1875Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1875 - 74 Seiten |
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... Quakers , and Catholics , were at that time upon the American coast . From that point , then , it is well to look back , and see what was the governing spirit , the diffused and moulding moral life , which the steady immigration of ...
... Quakers , and Catholics , were at that time upon the American coast . From that point , then , it is well to look back , and see what was the governing spirit , the diffused and moulding moral life , which the steady immigration of ...
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... quakers , by whom Germantown , in Pennsylvania , was settled , in 1684 ; the three thousand Germans , sent out to the Hudson River in 1710 , and who afterward established their prosperous homes at Schoharie , and along the inviting ...
... quakers , by whom Germantown , in Pennsylvania , was settled , in 1684 ; the three thousand Germans , sent out to the Hudson River in 1710 , and who afterward established their prosperous homes at Schoharie , and along the inviting ...
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Seite 11 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 11 - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
Seite 9 - For some time past the Old World has been fed from the New. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, 1 had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Seite 9 - England, sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles.
Seite 10 - It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
Seite 37 - 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 69 - 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 12 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Seite 9 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 49 - All mankind know," said the preamble, "that a prince is appointed by God to cherish his subjects, even as a shepherd to guard his sheep. When, therefore, the prince does not fulfil his duty as protector ; when he oppresses his subjects, destroys their ancient liberties, and treats them as slaves, he is to be considered, not a prince, but a tyrant. As such, the estates of the land may lawfully and reasonably depose him, and elect another in his room.