Men and Manners in America, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1833 |
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... society . The tone of conversation is lighter and more agreeable , and topics of mere commercial interest are rarely obtruded at the din- ner table . In Baltimore there is not much pretension of any sort , and the average of literary ...
... society . The tone of conversation is lighter and more agreeable , and topics of mere commercial interest are rarely obtruded at the din- ner table . In Baltimore there is not much pretension of any sort , and the average of literary ...
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... society are so large . The most glaring want in Washington is that of compactness and consistency . The houses are scattered in straggling groups , three in one quarter , and half a dozen in another ; and ever and anon our compassion is ...
... society are so large . The most glaring want in Washington is that of compactness and consistency . The houses are scattered in straggling groups , three in one quarter , and half a dozen in another ; and ever and anon our compassion is ...
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... society in Europe could they be received as such . Each member is furnished with a desk , and a con- siderable number are usually engaged during the progress of public business in writing letters , or HALL OF THE SENATE . reading ...
... society in Europe could they be received as such . Each member is furnished with a desk , and a con- siderable number are usually engaged during the progress of public business in writing letters , or HALL OF THE SENATE . reading ...
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... society . The experience of the world is in favour of the assertion , that it is impossible to excel both in ... society than they can hope to meet elsewhere ; but the majority leave such in- CHARACTER OF SOCIETY . 37 cumbrances at home ...
... society . The experience of the world is in favour of the assertion , that it is impossible to excel both in ... society than they can hope to meet elsewhere ; but the majority leave such in- CHARACTER OF SOCIETY . 37 cumbrances at home ...
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Thomas Hamilton. CHARACTER OF SOCIETY . 37 cumbrances at home , some , it may be presumed , from taste , and others from ... society of Washington . The French mi- nister , who had recently arrived from Europe , had 38 BALL AT THE FRENCH ...
Thomas Hamilton. CHARACTER OF SOCIETY . 37 cumbrances at home , some , it may be presumed , from taste , and others from ... society of Washington . The French mi- nister , who had recently arrived from Europe , had 38 BALL AT THE FRENCH ...
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Page 119 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Page 287 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Page 118 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 118 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred...
Page 119 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.
Page 119 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 118 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you ; to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 122 - Party spirit has entered the recesses of retirement, violated the sanctity of female character, invaded the tranquillity of private life, and visited with severe inflictions the peace of families; neither elevation nor humility has been spared; nor the charities of life, nor distinguished public services, nor the fireside, nor the altar, been left free from attack; but a licentious and destroying spirit has gone forth, regardless of everything but the gratification of malignant feelings, and unworthy...
Page 200 - I rambled through the woods, there were a thousand shrubs already bursting into flower. On reaching the lower regions of the Mississippi, all was brightness and verdure. Summer had already begun, and the heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortly after entering Louisiana, the whole wildness of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are all cultivated, and nothing was to be seen but plantations of sugar, cotton, and rice, with the houses of their owners, and the little adjoining hamlets inhabited...
Page 398 - ... according to the anomalous and piebald creed prescribed by such a congregation, and the practical result is, that some one sect becomes victorious for a time; jealousies deepen into antipathies, and what is called an opposition church probably springs up in the village. Still harmony is not restored. The rival clergymen attack each other from the pulpit; newspapers are enlisted on either side ; and religious warfare is waged with the bitterness, if not the learning which has distinguished the...