A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England. ...Wells and Lilly, 1825 - 70 pages |
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... force and its elasticity , and to cause its action to be more formidable and terrible . Human invention has devised nothing , human power has compassed nothing that can forcibly restrain it , when it breaks forth . Nothing can stop it ...
... force and its elasticity , and to cause its action to be more formidable and terrible . Human invention has devised nothing , human power has compassed nothing that can forcibly restrain it , when it breaks forth . Nothing can stop it ...
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... force to shake the firmest purpose , they had yet com- mitted themselves to heaven and the elements ; and a thousand leagues of water soon interposed to sepa- rate them forever from the region which gave them birth . A new existence ...
... force to shake the firmest purpose , they had yet com- mitted themselves to heaven and the elements ; and a thousand leagues of water soon interposed to sepa- rate them forever from the region which gave them birth . A new existence ...
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... force of habit and precedent , and is adopted in our own existing systems of government . " There lie , " says another English writer , whose connexion with the Board of Trade has enabled him to ascertain many facts connected with ...
... force of habit and precedent , and is adopted in our own existing systems of government . " There lie , " says another English writer , whose connexion with the Board of Trade has enabled him to ascertain many facts connected with ...
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... force be interpos ed , they govern themselves . " 1 4:18 : J r The history of other nations may teach us how favourable to public liberty is the division of the soil into small freeholds , and a system of laws , of which the tendency is ...
... force be interpos ed , they govern themselves . " 1 4:18 : J r The history of other nations may teach us how favourable to public liberty is the division of the soil into small freeholds , and a system of laws , of which the tendency is ...
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... force ; in other words that the government may be overturned . A most interesting experiment of the effect of a subdivision of property on government , is now mak- ing in France . It is understood , that the law regu- lating the ...
... force ; in other words that the government may be overturned . A most interesting experiment of the effect of a subdivision of property on government , is now mak- ing in France . It is understood , that the law regu- lating the ...
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Page 47 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 74 - Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.
Page 58 - Universal suffrage, for example, could not long exist in a community where there was great inequality of property. The holders of estates would be obliged in such case, either in some way to restrain the right of suffrage, or else such right of suffrage would ere long divide the property.
Page 70 - I invoke the ministers of our religion, that they proclaim its denunciation of these crimes, and add its solemn sanctions to the authority of human laws. If the pulpit be silent whenever or wherever there may be a sinner bloody with this guilt within the hearing of its voice, the pulpit is false to its trust.
Page 75 - ... transmitted from our fathers in just estimation ; some proof of our attachment to the cause of good government, and of civil and religious liberty ; some proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote every thing which may enlarge the understandings and improve the hearts of men.
Page 12 - ... the rush of adverse battalions, the sinking and rising of pennons, the flight, the pursuit, and the victory ; but by their effect in advancing or retarding human knowledge, in overthrowing or establishing despotism, in extending or destroying human happiness. When the...
Page 9 - We have come to this Rock, to record here our homage for our Pilgrim Fathers; our sympathy in their sufferings; our gratitude for their labors; our admiration of their virtues; our veneration for their piety; and our attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty, which they encountered the dangers of the ocean, the storms of heaven, the violence of savages, disease, exile, and famine, to enjoy and to establish.
Page 69 - If there be, within the extent of our knowledge or influence, any participation in this traffic, let us pledge ourselves here, upon the rock of Plymouth, to extirpate and destroy it. It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer.
Page 33 - Who would wish that his country's existence had otherwise begun? Who would desire the power of going back to the ages of fable? Who would wish for an origin obscured in the darkness of antiquity? Who would wish for other emblazoning of his country's heraldry, or other ornaments of her genealogy, than to be able to say, that her first existence was with intelligence, her first breath the inspiration of liberty, her first principle the truth of divine religion?
Page 10 - ... houseless, but for a mother's arms, couchless, but for a mother's breast, till our own blood almost freezes. The mild dignity of Carver and of Bradford ; the decisive and soldier-like air and manner of Standish ; the devout Brewster ; the enterprising Allerton ; the general firmness and thoughtfulness of the whole band ; their conscious joy for dangers escaped ; their deep solicitude about dangers to come ; their trust in Heaven; their high religious faith, full of confidence and anticipation...