Washington, Or, Liberty Restored: A Poem, in Ten BooksJohn Vance, 1809 - 253 pages |
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... mind Hast deep impress'd the unutterable worth Of heaven - sprung Liberty , and didst denounce The curse of ignorance with all its woes Upon that nation which should spurn her gifts ; To thee I call , and beg thy heavenly aid To uphold ...
... mind Hast deep impress'd the unutterable worth Of heaven - sprung Liberty , and didst denounce The curse of ignorance with all its woes Upon that nation which should spurn her gifts ; To thee I call , and beg thy heavenly aid To uphold ...
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... mind , pointing out only quo ducit gula , it is not much to be wondered at that many of the greatest cha- racters of the world should have arisen from humble stations . " Washington's patrimonial estate was by no means consi- derable ...
... mind , pointing out only quo ducit gula , it is not much to be wondered at that many of the greatest cha- racters of the world should have arisen from humble stations . " Washington's patrimonial estate was by no means consi- derable ...
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... mind Forebodes some dire misfortune to my throne , 45 50 44. Whence we have hop'd , -If the efforts of the British mi- nistry to subjugate America had been crowned with success , it is hardly possible to doubt the consequences that ...
... mind Forebodes some dire misfortune to my throne , 45 50 44. Whence we have hop'd , -If the efforts of the British mi- nistry to subjugate America had been crowned with success , it is hardly possible to doubt the consequences that ...
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... minds of men Shall reign no more : ' tis on Columbia's plains 165 The victor shall be vanquish'd : hence it comes That the chief powers of heaven do now uuite To aid Columbia's cause and Washington : And hell too must unite ; no petty ...
... minds of men Shall reign no more : ' tis on Columbia's plains 165 The victor shall be vanquish'd : hence it comes That the chief powers of heaven do now uuite To aid Columbia's cause and Washington : And hell too must unite ; no petty ...
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... mind With more than Argus ' vigilance pursues Our intricatest movements ; he alone Is in himself a host , a Washington . Fondly I hoped in British Wedderburne 195 200 192. the other Washington , -Lieutenant colonel Wash- ington . 195 ...
... mind With more than Argus ' vigilance pursues Our intricatest movements ; he alone Is in himself a host , a Washington . Fondly I hoped in British Wedderburne 195 200 192. the other Washington , -Lieutenant colonel Wash- ington . 195 ...
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Page 19 - We next got it launched, then went on board of it and set off; but, before we were half way over, we were jammed in the ice in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish.
Page 114 - confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity; by comparing events with each other, reasoning from effects to causes, methinks I plainly discover the traces of an over-ruling influence.
Page 110 - Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper : they have been wronged : they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of...
Page 130 - We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the divine favour towards us, that his providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves.
Page 111 - That liberty was a plant that deserved to be cherished ; that he loved the tree, and wished well to every branch of it. That, like the vine in the Scripture, it had spread from east to west, had embraced whole nations with its branches, and sheltered them under its leaves. That the Americans had purchased their liberty at a dear rate, since they had quitted their native country, and gone in search of freedom to a desert.* * " They left their native land in search of freedom, and found it in a detert,
Page 14 - HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Page 19 - Town,) we fell in with a party of French Indians, who had lain in wait for us. One of them fired at Mr. Gist or me, not fifteen steps off, but fortunately missed. We took this fellow into custody...
Page 107 - Sorry I am to hear the liberty of speech in this House imputed as a crime. But the imputation shall not discourage me. It is a liberty I mean to exercise. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it.
Page 127 - Directing pardons to be offered to the colonies, who are the very parties injured, expresses indeed that opinion of our ignorance, baseness, and insensibility, which your uninformed and proud nation has long been pleased to entertain of us; but it can have no other effect than that of encreasing our resentments.
Page 101 - ... is this — I repeat it — I will maintain it to my last hour, — taxation and representation are inseparable; — this position is founded on the laws of nature; it is more, it is itself an eternal law of nature; for whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man...