Lecture on National Character: Delivered at the Jamaica Lyceum, L.I., April 25th, 1843Jas. P. Wright, 1843 - 32 страница |
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... give their impression to the mind in its earliest stages of being and in- telligence and although the influence thus imparted may become weakened in after - life , it returns and is ever strongly felt at the close of existence ; for ...
... give their impression to the mind in its earliest stages of being and in- telligence and although the influence thus imparted may become weakened in after - life , it returns and is ever strongly felt at the close of existence ; for ...
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... give a charter to the people of France . A charter , however , is not a contract between the sovereign and the nation , nor is it a constitution framed by the people : it is the free gift of the crown . But , after the experience of the ...
... give a charter to the people of France . A charter , however , is not a contract between the sovereign and the nation , nor is it a constitution framed by the people : it is the free gift of the crown . But , after the experience of the ...
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... gives them neither the privilege nor the right to resist . In Sweden , on the contrary , the peasantry are proverbially honest , they constitute an order of the State , and are represented in the Diet . The Swede resists an attack on ...
... gives them neither the privilege nor the right to resist . In Sweden , on the contrary , the peasantry are proverbially honest , they constitute an order of the State , and are represented in the Diet . The Swede resists an attack on ...
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... gives token of his coming in pride , and pomp , and majesty . Here his first rays reflect the broad shadows of the mountain on the calm sur- face of the lake below ; there , glancing through the valleys , they gild the spires of the ...
... gives token of his coming in pride , and pomp , and majesty . Here his first rays reflect the broad shadows of the mountain on the calm sur- face of the lake below ; there , glancing through the valleys , they gild the spires of the ...
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... give exis- tence to the spirit that pervaded these songs , that favored their effect , and gave increased value to the moral influences they imparted . Surrounded by the ocean , the habits and pursuits of her people must necessarily ...
... give exis- tence to the spirit that pervaded these songs , that favored their effect , and gave increased value to the moral influences they imparted . Surrounded by the ocean , the habits and pursuits of her people must necessarily ...
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122 FULTON STREET ages Alfred ardor arms Assyria banner battle became benefit blessings brave calm cause charter China Christendom civil liberty consequence Constitution country's dangers effect Egypt elevate Empire enduring England enjoy enjoyment enlightened essential Essex Europe evil exertions fair fame favor felt flag foes of freedom form of government foundation founded France glories habits and pursuits improve individual influence JAMAICA LYCEUM JAMES DE PEYSTER King King of France laws and institutions LECTURE ON NATIONAL lights and information Magna Charta monarch mother country mountain Napoleon national character Nature naval numbers ocean passions patriotism PEYSTER OGDEN political possessed pride of country primeval origin prosperity proud Prussia public opinion Published by request rank rational freedom reign Republican resist rest our hopes Revolution Revolutionary fathers reward Rome rude rulers sceptre secured songs of Dibdin spirit storm talent throne tion verdant lawn victory wave wealth winds of heaven
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Страница 29 - ... a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
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Страница 11 - ... itself under the protecting wings of the Imperial eagles, as it had before been anxious for combat under the banners of Liberty and Equality. Napoleon was as great a foe as Freedom ever knew.
Страница 4 - As confidence increased, cities, and kingdoms, and empires were founded and established, while arts, and arms, and science, and literature, and commerce, and laws, and liberty...
Страница 11 - The idea of foreign interference, joined to a suspicion of domestic treason, was sufficient to...