Lecture on National Character: Delivered at the Jamaica Lyceum, L.I., April 25th, 1843Jas. P. Wright, 1843 - 32 страница |
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... laws and institutions of a country . All these , in their respective degrees and varied combina- tion , exert a pervading influence , and exercise a controlling effect upon the moral and physical character of man in his individual and ...
... laws and institutions of a country . All these , in their respective degrees and varied combina- tion , exert a pervading influence , and exercise a controlling effect upon the moral and physical character of man in his individual and ...
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... laws and institutions of our country . After the confusion of tongues , at the building of the tower of Babel , the people became dispersed to every region com- prised within the limits of the ancient world , and then were founded ...
... laws and institutions of our country . After the confusion of tongues , at the building of the tower of Babel , the people became dispersed to every region com- prised within the limits of the ancient world , and then were founded ...
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... Laws then became necessary to define rights and se- cure possessions ; and rulers , clothed with authority , were required to enforce the laws and preserve the order of so- ciety . By degrees , kings and armies , thrones and sceptres ...
... Laws then became necessary to define rights and se- cure possessions ; and rulers , clothed with authority , were required to enforce the laws and preserve the order of so- ciety . By degrees , kings and armies , thrones and sceptres ...
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... laws as they possessed , endeavoring only to improve them . He at- tempted , though unsuccessfully , to introduce uniformity of weights and measures . He conceived the vast plan of uniting the Rhine and the Danube , and the Atlantic ...
... laws as they possessed , endeavoring only to improve them . He at- tempted , though unsuccessfully , to introduce uniformity of weights and measures . He conceived the vast plan of uniting the Rhine and the Danube , and the Atlantic ...
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... laws , divided England into counties , tithings , and hundreds ; erected county courts , and founded the University of Oxford . Alfred gave also to England the trial by jury , and suggested the necessity of a naval force for her ...
... laws , divided England into counties , tithings , and hundreds ; erected county courts , and founded the University of Oxford . Alfred gave also to England the trial by jury , and suggested the necessity of a naval force for her ...
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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...