Men and Manners in America. By the Author of Cyril Thornton, Etc, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1833 |
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... politics . The world was then occupied with Poland , her wrongs , her sufferings , her chances of success in the unequal contest with the vast power of Russia . This subject naturally led to the general prospects of Europe , the ...
... politics . The world was then occupied with Poland , her wrongs , her sufferings , her chances of success in the unequal contest with the vast power of Russia . This subject naturally led to the general prospects of Europe , the ...
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... political distinction , or of speaking and act- ing in a manner basely subservient to the prejudices and caprices of his constituents . Let a member of Congress attempt to follow a bold , manly , and inde- pendent course , and he is ...
... political distinction , or of speaking and act- ing in a manner basely subservient to the prejudices and caprices of his constituents . Let a member of Congress attempt to follow a bold , manly , and inde- pendent course , and he is ...
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... political service , they immediately return . They are subject to all the impulses which can affect the deliberations of the more popular House . In no point of view do they present them- selves under the aspect of an independent body ...
... political service , they immediately return . They are subject to all the impulses which can affect the deliberations of the more popular House . In no point of view do they present them- selves under the aspect of an independent body ...
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... political institutions is of itself a source of weakness . It is only by slow de- grees that the intellect and habits of a people become accommodated to the operation of a government , that their prejudices are enlisted in its favour ...
... political institutions is of itself a source of weakness . It is only by slow de- grees that the intellect and habits of a people become accommodated to the operation of a government , that their prejudices are enlisted in its favour ...
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... political in- stitutions of the United States are consistent neither with stability of purpose in the legislative , nor vi- gour in the executive departments . Let us look where we will , all is feeble and vacillating . There is no ...
... political in- stitutions of the United States are consistent neither with stability of purpose in the legislative , nor vi- gour in the executive departments . Let us look where we will , all is feeble and vacillating . There is no ...
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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.