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... father and of his grandparents , had prevailed in New England . Until his active life was well begun , indeed , these old principles still seemed dominant . Church and state , the fathers held , should alike be subject to the rule of ...
... father and of his grandparents , had prevailed in New England . Until his active life was well begun , indeed , these old principles still seemed dominant . Church and state , the fathers held , should alike be subject to the rule of ...
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... fathers , in such manner as should revive their failing spirit among those whom Cotton Mather thought their degenerate descendants . In its whole conception it is such a history not as that of Thucydi- des , but as Plutarch's . It has ...
... fathers , in such manner as should revive their failing spirit among those whom Cotton Mather thought their degenerate descendants . In its whole conception it is such a history not as that of Thucydi- des , but as Plutarch's . It has ...
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... fathers of New England realized on earth , stand forth by and by as heroic . Until very lately the struggle between the austere Calvinism of which he was the champion , and the devout free thought with which New England has replaced it ...
... fathers of New England realized on earth , stand forth by and by as heroic . Until very lately the struggle between the austere Calvinism of which he was the champion , and the devout free thought with which New England has replaced it ...
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... Father had once devoted him ; and a Malignant Fever then raging in those Parts of the Country , carried off him with his wife within Two or Three Days of one another . This was counted the sorest of all the Trials that ever befel his Father ...
... Father had once devoted him ; and a Malignant Fever then raging in those Parts of the Country , carried off him with his wife within Two or Three Days of one another . This was counted the sorest of all the Trials that ever befel his Father ...
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... Father alter'd not his Course , but Wrote after the Preacher as formerly ; and when he came Home he held on his former Methods of Divine Worship in his Family , not for the Excuse of Aaron , omit- ting any thing in the Service of God ...
... Father alter'd not his Course , but Wrote after the Preacher as formerly ; and when he came Home he held on his former Methods of Divine Worship in his Family , not for the Excuse of Aaron , omit- ting any thing in the Service of God ...
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Page 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Page 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Page 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Page 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Page 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Page 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Page 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Page 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.