A Voice to America: Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: with a Review of the Causes of the Decline and Failure of the Republics of South America, Mexico, and of the Old World; Applied to the Present Crisis in the United StatesE. Walker, 1855 - Всего страниц: 404 |
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... force on earth , yet only refer to physical power , and do not by any means give a comprehensive view even of that power . However important our pecuniary wealth and material power at this present moment may be , as securing to us a ...
... force on earth , yet only refer to physical power , and do not by any means give a comprehensive view even of that power . However important our pecuniary wealth and material power at this present moment may be , as securing to us a ...
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... force to follow the commands of hered- itary despots . We consider and inquire to our heart's content what we would have the government do , and then vigilantly watch its exe- cution . No such broad political freedom was ever heard of ...
... force to follow the commands of hered- itary despots . We consider and inquire to our heart's content what we would have the government do , and then vigilantly watch its exe- cution . No such broad political freedom was ever heard of ...
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... force - Who does not read American books ? Such statistics tell a proud story for our country . But it is not merely in science , philosophy , or elegant literature , that American thought is moulding the opinions of the world . Ever ...
... force - Who does not read American books ? Such statistics tell a proud story for our country . But it is not merely in science , philosophy , or elegant literature , that American thought is moulding the opinions of the world . Ever ...
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... force a prostrating commercial system upon tributary millions by war , to steal colonies everywhere , to speckle the world with our garrisons , and then to boast that the drum - beat of our army ever greets the rising sun , For us there ...
... force a prostrating commercial system upon tributary millions by war , to steal colonies everywhere , to speckle the world with our garrisons , and then to boast that the drum - beat of our army ever greets the rising sun , For us there ...
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... force of Gre- cian character kept in check the revolutionary tendency of the fickle populace , while in Rome the intellectual refinement of Greece tended rather to emasculate than invigorate the body politic . The histories of these ...
... force of Gre- cian character kept in check the revolutionary tendency of the fickle populace , while in Rome the intellectual refinement of Greece tended rather to emasculate than invigorate the body politic . The histories of these ...
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Стр. 398 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial ; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it.
Стр. 32 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Стр. 397 - Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Стр. 394 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Стр. 32 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Стр. 32 - Puritan was made up of two different men, — the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Стр. 400 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Стр. 398 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Стр. 32 - ... before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account.
Стр. 395 - That from and after the fourth day of July next, the Flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.