Lecture on National Character: Delivered at the Jamaica Lyceum, L.I., April 25th, 1843Jas. P. Wright, 1843 - 32 страница |
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... reflected increased lustre on their character , emanating , as it did , from surrounding darkness , and their names long stood prominent as beacon - lights for their own and for succeeding ages . Charlemagne , or Charles the Great ...
... reflected increased lustre on their character , emanating , as it did , from surrounding darkness , and their names long stood prominent as beacon - lights for their own and for succeeding ages . Charlemagne , or Charles the Great ...
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... reflected from the moun- tain sides , shine on the verdant lawns , and fertile plains , and glassy lakes below , as on a sea of burnished gold ; until the varying tints and ever - changing hues , that seem to brighten ere they are lost ...
... reflected from the moun- tain sides , shine on the verdant lawns , and fertile plains , and glassy lakes below , as on a sea of burnished gold ; until the varying tints and ever - changing hues , that seem to brighten ere they are lost ...
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... Legislatures ? Have these bodies reflected the lights and information , or justified the hopes and expectations , of an enlightened age ? Or do we not require a patriotism and a public virtue of a higher order than of late exercised 28.
... Legislatures ? Have these bodies reflected the lights and information , or justified the hopes and expectations , of an enlightened age ? Or do we not require a patriotism and a public virtue of a higher order than of late exercised 28.
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... reflection or dis- crimination , our own distinctive character . The prominent public men of our country , who , from their situation , must necessarily , to some extent , lead or mislead public opinion , are also lamentably deficient ...
... reflection or dis- crimination , our own distinctive character . The prominent public men of our country , who , from their situation , must necessarily , to some extent , lead or mislead public opinion , are also lamentably deficient ...
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... reflection of intelligent masses qualified to judge , and who , having their own rights and interests at stake , are likely in most cases , in the end , to judge correctly . But the leaders of the political parties of our day are ...
... reflection of intelligent masses qualified to judge , and who , having their own rights and interests at stake , are likely in most cases , in the end , to judge correctly . But the leaders of the political parties of our day are ...
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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...