The Life of Peter Van Schaack, LL. D.: Embracing Selections from His Correspondence and Other Writings During the American Revolution, and His Exile in EnglandD. Appleton & Company, 1842 - 490 páginas |
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Página 304 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Página 285 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 90 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end. And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Página 121 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Página 184 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
Página 207 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.
Página 304 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools* that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 128 - Dec. 11. 1756, immediately after leaving The King's bench prison, by the benefit of the act of insolvency: In consequence of which, He registered his Kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors.
Página 304 - Justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
Página 124 - I looked at the magnificent bridge built by John Duke of Marlborough, over a small rivulet, and recollected the Epigram made upon it — ' The lofty arch his high ambition shows, The stream, an emblem of his bounty flows...
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