America: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1841 - Atlantic States |
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... producing Mediocrity of Taste.- Objections to acknowledge Masters by Servants . - Celebration of the National Inde- pendence , 4th of July . - Order of the Processions and Exercises . - Venerable Aspect of the Heroes of the Revolution ...
... producing Mediocrity of Taste.- Objections to acknowledge Masters by Servants . - Celebration of the National Inde- pendence , 4th of July . - Order of the Processions and Exercises . - Venerable Aspect of the Heroes of the Revolution ...
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... produced by Temperate Habits among Farmers . - High State of general Health in the Districts . -Longevity of the Temperate Livers . - Small Proportions of Paupers needing Re- lief . First Sabbath spent in a Rural District . - Happy and ...
... produced by Temperate Habits among Farmers . - High State of general Health in the Districts . -Longevity of the Temperate Livers . - Small Proportions of Paupers needing Re- lief . First Sabbath spent in a Rural District . - Happy and ...
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... produce a most agreeable effect . Here and there are some striking contrasts , to impress on the spectator the difference which a century has made in the style of building and scale of domestic comfort . The house we occupied , at the ...
... produce a most agreeable effect . Here and there are some striking contrasts , to impress on the spectator the difference which a century has made in the style of building and scale of domestic comfort . The house we occupied , at the ...
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... produce , very obnoxious in an age when , in many countries , greater ef- forts are making to establish general education than at any previous pe- riod , and when , on the other hand , the result at which some of the most distinguished ...
... produce , very obnoxious in an age when , in many countries , greater ef- forts are making to establish general education than at any previous pe- riod , and when , on the other hand , the result at which some of the most distinguished ...
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... produce all the good effects which it ought to produce without proper care being taken for the education of teachers . These are truths acknowledged in those countries where pub- lic instruction has most prospered . But there are so ...
... produce all the good effects which it ought to produce without proper care being taken for the education of teachers . These are truths acknowledged in those countries where pub- lic instruction has most prospered . But there are so ...
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Page 445 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 316 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 410 - Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 313 - They nourished up ~by YOUR indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them...
Page 313 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Page 23 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 316 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 23 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights...
Page 83 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 84 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.