The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great InterpretersYale University Press, 1918 - 281 strán (strany) |
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Adams admirable American artistic beauty born Boston Bret Harte Bryant Cambridge century church Civil Clemens colonies colonists Concord Cooper Cotton Mather critical Edward Emerson England English essays Europe F. B. Sanborn father Franklin George Harvard Hawthorne Henry Henry James historian Holmes Howells human humor instinct Irving Irving's James Jefferson John Cotton Journal Knickerbocker Leaves of Grass letters Lincoln literary literature lived London Longfellow Lowell lyric Mark Twain Massachusetts mind moral nature never novel orations oratory Parkman passion pioneer poems poet poetry political Prescott prose Puritan Ralph Waldo Emerson readers Roger Williams romance Scarlet Letter sermons short story social soul speech spirit Stowe theme Theodore Parker things Thomas Thoreau thought tion Transcendentalism Transcendentalist true truth turn Union verse Virginia volumes Washington Webster West Whitman Whittier Winthrop words writing written wrote York
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Strana 230 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world.
Strana 26 - When you send again, I entreat you rather send but thirty carpenters, husbandmen, gardeners, fishermen, blacksmiths, masons, and diggers up of trees' roots, well provided, than a thousand of such as we have...
Strana 78 - If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, If to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain.
Strana 87 - It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in 'human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.
Strana 65 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Strana 11 - I charge you, before God and His blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry, for I am persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His Holy Word.
Strana 215 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Strana 21 - They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the...
Strana 218 - The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us ; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by their best friends, under it.
Strana 189 - I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability and evanescence of temporal things to give any continuous effort to anything— to be consistent in anything. My life has been whim— impulse— passion— a longing for solitude— a scorn of all things present, in an earnest desire for the future.