Romantic Passages in Southwestern History: Including Orations, Sketches and EssaysS.H. Goetzel & Company, 1857 - 330 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 106 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 117 - Rhenumque bibunt. venient annis saecula seris, quibus Oceanus vincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tethysque novos detegat orbes nee sit terris ultima Thule.
الصفحة 284 - I am in your power ; do with me as you please. I am a soldier. I have done the white people all the harm I could. I have fought them, and fought them bravely. If I had an army, I would yet fight and contend to the last. But I have none. My people are all gone. I can do no more than weep over the misfortunes of my nation.
الصفحة 167 - Dante was the first awakener of entranced Europe; he created a language, in itself music and persuasion, out of a chaos of inharmonious barbarisms. He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning; the Lucifer of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world.
الصفحة 128 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
الصفحة 201 - O'Brien, with two pieces, had sustained this heavy charge to the last, and was finally obliged to leave his guns on the field — his infantry support being entirely routed. Captain Bragg, who had just arrived from the left, was ordered at once into battery. Without any infantry to support him, and at the imminent risk of losing his guns, this officer came rapidly into action, the Mexican line being but a few yards from the muzzle of his pieces. The first discharge of canister caused the enemy to...
الصفحة 60 - In a few years, owing to the operation of this institution upon our unparalleled natural advantages, we shall be the richest people beneath the bend of the rainbow, and then the arts and sciences, which always follow in the train of wealth, will flourish to an extent hitherto unknown on this side of the Atlantic.
الصفحة 86 - The correspondence which I am obliged to have with the English, who write to me from all parts, and particularly with the Governor of Mobile, gives me serious occupation. This governor is an extraordinary man. As he knows that I speak English, he occasionally writes to me in verse. He speaks to me of Francis I. and Charles V. He compares Pontiak, an Indian chief, to Mithridates ; he says that he goes to bed with Montesquieu. When there occur some petty difficulties between the inhabitants of New...
الصفحة 100 - Yet their names are on our waters, And we may not wash them out ! Their memory liveth on our hills, Their baptism on our shore, — Our everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore !" 'Tis heard where CHATTAHOOCHEE pours His yellow tide along ; It sounds on TALLAPOOSA'S shores, And COOSA swells the song ; Where lordly ALABAMA sweeps, The symphony remains ; And young CAHAWBA proudly keeps, The echo of its strains ; Where...
الصفحة 283 - who are friendly, I neither wish nor intend to make war; but they must afford evidences of the sincerity of their professions ; the prisoners and property they have taken from us and the friendly Creeks, must be restored; the instigators of the war, and the murderers of our citizens, must be surrendered ; the latter must and will be made to feel the force of our resentment. Long shall they remember Fort Mimms, in bitterness and tears.