Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-book of a German NoblemanFrancis Joseph Grund R. Bentley, 1839 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 195 - A multitude like which the populous North Poured never from her frozen loins to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Pàgina 205 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Pàgina 24 - Unhappy he ! who, from the first of joys, Society, cut off, is left alone Amid this world of death. Day after day, Sad, on the jutting eminence he sits, And views the main that ever toils below...
Pàgina 196 - Standing thus, as in the full gaze of our ancestors and our posterity, having received this inheritance from the former, to be transmitted to the latter, and feeling that, if I...
Pàgina 88 - He is our cousin, cousin ; but 'tis doubt, When time shall call him home from banishment, "Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green, Observed his courtship to the common people ; — How he did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy ; What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; Wooing poor craftsmen, with the craft of smiles, And patient undcrbearing of his fortune, As 'twere, to banish their affects with him.
Pàgina 196 - I ever have been, and ever mean to be. Here, standing on the platform of the general Constitution, a platform broad enough and firm enough to uphold every interest of the whole country, I shall still be found. Intrusted with some part in the administration of that Constitution, I intend to act in its spirit, and in the spirit of those who framed it. Yes, Sir, I would act as if our fathers, who formed it for us and who bequeathed it to us...
Pàgina 195 - Let him go. I remain. I am where I ever have been, and ever mean to be. Here, standing on the platform of the general Constitution, a platform broad enough and firm enough to uphold every interest of the whole country, I shall still be found.
Pàgina 197 - I came into public life, sir, in the service of the United States. On that broad altar my earliest and all my public vows have been made. I propose to serve no other master. So far as depends on any agency of mine, they shall continue united States; united in interest and...
Pàgina 193 - But, if allotted to pursuits that require inferior qualities, the higher are sure to decay and perish. I object to the banking system, because it allots the honors and rewards of the community, in a very undue proportion, to a pursuit the least of all...
Pàgina 193 - ... to the development of the higher mental qualities, intellectual or moral — to the decay of the learned professions, and the more noble pursuits of science, literature, philosophy, and statesmanship, and the great and more useful pursuits of business and industry. With the vast increase of its profits and influence, it is gradually concentrating in itself most of the prizes of life — wealth, honor, and influence — to the great disparagement and degradation of all the liberal, and useful,...