The Historical Writings of John Fiske: Illustrated with Many Photogravures, Maps, Charts, Facsimiles, Etc. ...Houghton. Mifflin Company, 1902 - United States |
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Popular passages
Page 234 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God...
Page 234 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 286 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 33 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 49 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.
Page 110 - the old fool has put to death more people in that naked country than I did here for the murder of my father.
Page 270 - Thus my father had among his slaves of life at carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, curriers, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, and knitters, and even a distiller. His woods furnished timber and plank for the carpenters and coopers, and charcoal for the blacksmith ; his cattle killed for his own consumption and for sale supplied skins for the tanners, curriers, and shoemakers ; and his sheep gave wool and his fields produced cotton and flax for the weavers and spinners, and his orchards...
Page 6 - Captain spun ; he keeps weavers, and hath a a^d hiT" tan house, causes leather to be dressed, household hath eight shoemakers employed in their trade, hath forty negro servants, brings them up to trades in his house ; he yearly sows abundance of wheat, barley, &c., the wheat he selleth at four shillings the bushel, kills store of beeves, and sells them to victual the ships when they come thither ; hath abundance of kine, a brave dairy, swine great store, and poultry ; he married the daughter of Sir...
Page 33 - What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement, or labored mound, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Nor starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed Baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : Men, high-minded men...
Page 281 - That a pair of Silver Buckles be wrestled for by a number of brisk young men. " ' That a pair of handsome Shoes be danced for. "'That a pair of handsome silk Stockings of one Pistole value be given to the handsomest young country maid that appears in the Field. With many other Whimsical and Comical Diversions too numerous to mention. "' And as this mirth is designed to be purely innocent and void of offence, all persons resorting there are desired to behave themselves with decency and sobriety; the...