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... poor Friends and Relations • THE BROTHERS MONTGOLFIER . Character and Vocation of the Brothers - Previous Attempts to navigate the Air The Balloon invented - First Exhibition- The First Ascensions from Paris- Dr. Franklin interested ...
... poor Friends and Relations • THE BROTHERS MONTGOLFIER . Character and Vocation of the Brothers - Previous Attempts to navigate the Air The Balloon invented - First Exhibition- The First Ascensions from Paris- Dr. Franklin interested ...
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... poor a compliment , marquis , as to stay to change my dress . " I have often thought that she must have resembled Betsey Trotwood , as drawn by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield , and as found in many country homes both in Old ...
... poor a compliment , marquis , as to stay to change my dress . " I have often thought that she must have resembled Betsey Trotwood , as drawn by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield , and as found in many country homes both in Old ...
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... poor , either in purse or in spirit , as not to be both able and willing to impart to the poor- est of her children the rudiments of knowledge . This poor lad , therefore , found a common school within his reach a part of every year ...
... poor , either in purse or in spirit , as not to be both able and willing to impart to the poor- est of her children the rudiments of knowledge . This poor lad , therefore , found a common school within his reach a part of every year ...
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... poor of his neigh- borhood . On one occasion he subscribed fifty pounds toward building a parsonage for his minister , and on another he fur- nished his church with a new pulpit . His marriage was the first event in his life that was ...
... poor of his neigh- borhood . On one occasion he subscribed fifty pounds toward building a parsonage for his minister , and on another he fur- nished his church with a new pulpit . His marriage was the first event in his life that was ...
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... poor , and never had been , in all that region of country . The men wasted their earnings in the ale - house , which was the only flourishing establishment in the place ; and the whole of the laboring population was so sunk in ignorance ...
... poor , and never had been , in all that region of country . The men wasted their earnings in the ale - house , which was the only flourishing establishment in the place ; and the whole of the laboring population was so sunk in ignorance ...
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Page 354 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans ; we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 554 - Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his subsequent political career.
Page 22 - Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave, but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the human race, in humble supplication that, since he has been pleased to...
Page 194 - Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to...
Page 519 - ... between the present time and the beginning of next spring in planning and executing measures by which those portions of their towns and cities which are inhabited by the poorest classes, and which, from the nature of things, must most need purification and improvement, may be freed from those causes and sources of contagion which, if allowed to remain, will infallibly breed pestilence, and be fruitful in death, in spite of all the prayers and fastings of a united but inactive nation.
Page 183 - Sir, the circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say, that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly disposition of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their minister.
Page 194 - A solemn scene it was indeed, and it was made more affecting to me by the presence of the General, whose countenance was as serene and unclouded as the day. He seemed to me to enjoy a triumph over me. Methought I heard him say, "Ay ! I am fairly out and you fairly in! See which of us will be happiest.
Page 293 - YOUNG Oak ! when I planted thee deep in the ground, I hoped that thy days would be longer than mine ; That thy dark-waving branches would flourish around, And ivy thy trunk with its mantle entwine. Such, such was my hope, when, in infancy's years, On the land of my fathers I reared thee with pride : They are past, and I water thy stem with my tears, — Thy decay not the weeds that surround thee can hide.
Page 128 - When I was a child of seven years old my friends on a holiday filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children, and being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one.
Page 354 - I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.