The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, المجلد 3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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الصفحة 139 - elements to teach Who rules them. Be it ours to meditate In these calm shades thy milder majesty, And to the beautiful order of thy works Learn to conform the order of our lives. Oh, God ! when thou We shall add just a few lines from a recent poem,
الصفحة 139 - Thy gates shall yet give way, Thy bolts shall fall, inexorable Past! Thine for a space are they— Yet shalt thou yield thy treasures up at last; All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb, from earliest time, Shall then come forth, to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime
الصفحة 119 - By rejecting the posts, we light the savage fires, we bind the victims. This day we undertake to render account to the widows and orphans whom our decision will make, to the wretches that will be roasted at the stake, to our country, and I do not deem it too serious to
الصفحة 141 - of frozen land over which it has passed. Ere, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on. The mountains that infold, In their wide sweep, the colour'd landscape round, Seem groups of giant kings, in purple
الصفحة 141 - twere a lot too bless'd For ever in thy colour'd shades to stray ; Amid the kisses of the soft south-west To rove and dream for aye ; And leave the vain low strife That makes men mad—the tug for wealth aud power, The passions and the cares that wither life, And waste its little hour.
الصفحة 138 - My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back—yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence. Nor to the streaming eye Thou givest them back—nor to the broken heart. In vain—thy gates deny All passage, save to those who hence depart; Earth's wonder and her pride Are
الصفحة 130 - pall of universal darkness. Beware, then, sir, how you give a fatal sanction, in this infant period of our republic, to military insubordination. Remember, that Greece had her Alexander, Rome her Csesar, England her Cromwell, France her Bonaparte, and, that if we would escape the rock on which they split, we must avoid their errors.
الصفحة 141 - My steps are not alone Along the winding way. And far in heaven, the while, The sun, that sends that gale to wander here, Pours out on the fair earth his quiet smile,— The sweetest of the year. Oh, Autumn ! why so soon Depart the hues that make thy forests glad
الصفحة 138 - And grew with years, and falter'd not in death. Full many a mighty name Lurks in thy depths, unutter'd, unrevered ; With thee are silent fame. Forgotten arts, and wisdom disappear'd. Thy gates shall yet give way, Thy bolts shall fall, inexorable Past! Thine for a space are they— Yet shalt thou yield thy treasures up at last;
الصفحة 117 - us in point of feeling and principle, I see no objection in a political view in making them tributary to our advantage. And as I have no prejudice to prevent my making this use of them, so, sir, I have no fear of any mischief they can do us. Afraid of them ! What, sir!