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... Junius . - Tamoc Caspipina.- Mr. Duché . Page 79 CHAPTER IV . The Author removes to York . - Society there . - A Maryland Parson.- Odd character . - Judge Stedman . - Mr . James Smith . - Family circle.- Author returns to Philadelphia ...
... Junius . - Tamoc Caspipina.- Mr. Duché . Page 79 CHAPTER IV . The Author removes to York . - Society there . - A Maryland Parson.- Odd character . - Judge Stedman . - Mr . James Smith . - Family circle.- Author returns to Philadelphia ...
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... ED . + Vide correspondence in the " Letters of Junius . " In his celebrated contro- versy with the " great unknown , " sir William displayed a degree of ability and 68 SIR WILLIAM DRAPER - FRANK RICHARDSON . who made.
... ED . + Vide correspondence in the " Letters of Junius . " In his celebrated contro- versy with the " great unknown , " sir William displayed a degree of ability and 68 SIR WILLIAM DRAPER - FRANK RICHARDSON . who made.
Page 68
... Junius . It has even been suggested that this very incident sent the knight on his travels . Whether or not , it had so important a consequence , it cannot be denied , that sir William caught a tartar in Junius ; and that when he ...
... Junius . It has even been suggested that this very incident sent the knight on his travels . Whether or not , it had so important a consequence , it cannot be denied , that sir William caught a tartar in Junius ; and that when he ...
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... Junius . Without granting something to celebrity of this latter sort , what possible interest could we take in learning that doctor Johnson liked a leg of pork , or that he could swallow twelve or more cups of tea at a sitting ? * Major ...
... Junius . Without granting something to celebrity of this latter sort , what possible interest could we take in learning that doctor Johnson liked a leg of pork , or that he could swallow twelve or more cups of tea at a sitting ? * Major ...
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... Junius . - Tamoc Caspipina . - Mr . Duché . ABOUT the year 1769 or 1770 , my grandfather died . My in- attention to dates disqualifies me for fixing the year , nor is it ma- terial . His disorder was a complication of dropsy and asthma ...
... Junius . - Tamoc Caspipina . - Mr . Duché . ABOUT the year 1769 or 1770 , my grandfather died . My in- attention to dates disqualifies me for fixing the year , nor is it ma- terial . His disorder was a complication of dropsy and asthma ...
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Page 87 - Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
Page 362 - I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.
Page 341 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Page 371 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY; His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Page 176 - If we cannot prevent vessels from passing up, and the enemy are possessed of the surrounding country, what valuable purpose can it answer to attempt to hold a post, from which the expected benefit cannot be had? I am therefore inclined to think, that it will not be prudent to hazard the men and stores at Mount Washington ; but, as you are on the spot, I leave it to you to give such orders, as to evacuating Mount Washington, as you may judge best, and so far revoking the order given to Colonel Magaw...
Page 343 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Page 331 - Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extolled, To live upon their tongues and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise, His lot who dares be singularly good?
Page 359 - Against us are the Executive, the Judiciary, two out of three branches of the Legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty...
Page 462 - I must, in justice to myself, when this campaign is closed, which I believe will close the war, retire from a service at the head of which is placed a man capable of offering such injuries. But at the same time, in justice to you, I must repeat, that I from my soul believe, that it was not a motion of your own breast, but instigated by some of those dirty earwigs, who will...
Page 365 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.