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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Æneid affectionate agreeable Albany America army assured attention banishing act Baron Dieskau beautiful believe Britain British character circumstances civil colonies committee conduct Congress consider courts Cruger dear boy DEAR BROTHER dear Harry DEAR SIR dearest declared duty Egbert Benson endeavor enemy England expect favor feel friends friendship gentleman give Gouverneur Morris happy hear heart HENRY CRUGER HENRY VAN SCHAACK honor hope House human idea interest JOHN JAY Kinderhook letter liberty London Lord Lord North measures ment mentioned mind misprision of treason native country nature never New-York oath object occasion opinion paper Parliament peace persons PETER SILVESTER PETER VAN SCHAACK pleasing pleasure political present principles proceedings reason received respect sentiments sincerely situation spirit suppose tender THEODORE SEDGWICK thing thought tion town troops uncle wish write
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Página 297 - 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 farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 490 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for, or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war; and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or property...
Página 316 - 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 198 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Página 219 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
Página 316 - Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. " 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 64 - Whereas the present government of this colony, by congress and committees, was instituted while the former government, under the Crown of Great Britain, existed in full force; and was established for the sole purpose of opposing the usurpation of the British Parliament...
Página 135 - Ev'n 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...
Página 138 - 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...
Página 142 - KINGDOM OF CORSICA FOR THE USE OF HIS CREDITORS. The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings. But Theodore this moral learned ere dead : Fate poured its lessons on his living head, Bestowed a kingdom, and denied him bread.
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