Lecture on National Character: Delivered at the Jamaica Lyceum, L.I., April 25th, 1843Jas. P. Wright, 1843 - 32 страница |
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... important to nations and to individuals . The essential advantage , indeed abso- lute necessity , of character , is exemplified in every day's ex- perience : it may be traced in every incident that affects our prosperity or adversity ...
... important to nations and to individuals . The essential advantage , indeed abso- lute necessity , of character , is exemplified in every day's ex- perience : it may be traced in every incident that affects our prosperity or adversity ...
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... important results by their tendency to harmonize the feelings , enlist the sympathies , and elevate the sentiments of the great body of a people . Natural scenery , of a particular character , has its effects in attaching men to their ...
... important results by their tendency to harmonize the feelings , enlist the sympathies , and elevate the sentiments of the great body of a people . Natural scenery , of a particular character , has its effects in attaching men to their ...
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... importance that flourished before the Christian era , with whose history we are well acquainted - Rome was essentially military in her character . Yet she was on the pinnacle of her fame - her national character stood highest when her ...
... importance that flourished before the Christian era , with whose history we are well acquainted - Rome was essentially military in her character . Yet she was on the pinnacle of her fame - her national character stood highest when her ...
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... important discovery mainly con- tributed to the revival of learning and diffusion of science in the sixteenth century , and nearly all the illustrious men from whom our present stock of knowledge is derived , have sprung up and ...
... important discovery mainly con- tributed to the revival of learning and diffusion of science in the sixteenth century , and nearly all the illustrious men from whom our present stock of knowledge is derived , have sprung up and ...
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... important in history -that have exercised the greatest influence in changing and improving the social and political condition of man , were our own Revolution , and that of France , which fol- lowed it . Their consequences are now ...
... important in history -that have exercised the greatest influence in changing and improving the social and political condition of man , were our own Revolution , and that of France , which fol- lowed it . Their consequences are now ...
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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.
Страница 3 - It could be likened unto the confusion of tongues at the building of the Tower of Babel.
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...