Men and Manners in America. By the Author of Cyril Thornton, Etc, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1833 |
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... Congress in the discharge of their more interesting duties would be lost . I therefore deter- mined on setting out for Washington without farther delay , and bade a temporary farewell to my friends in Baltimore , whom I rejoiced in the ...
... Congress in the discharge of their more interesting duties would be lost . I therefore deter- mined on setting out for Washington without farther delay , and bade a temporary farewell to my friends in Baltimore , whom I rejoiced in the ...
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... Congress . It would have been inconsistent with the American character , had the original plan of the future metropolis not been framed on a scale of gigantic magnitude . A parallelogram , nearly five miles in length , and more than two ...
... Congress . It would have been inconsistent with the American character , had the original plan of the future metropolis not been framed on a scale of gigantic magnitude . A parallelogram , nearly five miles in length , and more than two ...
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... Congress is no great burden on the shoulders of any of its mem- bers ; and a trip to Washington is generally regard- ed as a sort of annual lark , which enables a man to pass the winter months more pleasantly than in the country . A ...
... Congress is no great burden on the shoulders of any of its mem- bers ; and a trip to Washington is generally regard- ed as a sort of annual lark , which enables a man to pass the winter months more pleasantly than in the country . A ...
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... Congress generally live together in small boarding- houses , which , from all I saw of them , are shabby and uncomfortable . Gentlemen with families take lodgings , or occupy apartments in a hotel ; and it is really marvellous , at the ...
... Congress generally live together in small boarding- houses , which , from all I saw of them , are shabby and uncomfortable . Gentlemen with families take lodgings , or occupy apartments in a hotel ; and it is really marvellous , at the ...
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... Congress had been indiscriminate , for the party was adorned by many members of that body who would not probably have been present on any prin- ciple of selection . Many of the gentlemen had evidently not thought it necessary to make ...
... Congress had been indiscriminate , for the party was adorned by many members of that body who would not probably have been present on any prin- ciple of selection . Many of the gentlemen had evidently not thought it necessary to make ...
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Page 285 - 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 117 - 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 116 - 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 116 - 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 117 - ... 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 120 - 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 198 - 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 by the slaves. Here and there were orchards of orange-trees, but these occurred too seldom to have much influence on the landscape.
Page 116 - 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 185 - Mississippi as wanting grandeur and beauty. Most certainly, it has neither. But there is no scenery on earth more striking. The dreary and pestilential...
Page 396 - Ofeed 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 controversies of abler polemics.