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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaddressed American appeared born Boston called Captain Church colony Congress Cotton Mather death died divine edition England English eyes fame father Franklin Freneau glory Gout Governor grace hand happy Harvard Harvard College hath head heart heaven honor Increase Mather Indian John John Adams John Bartram King land learning letter liberty literary live London Lord Massachusetts Memoirs ment mind native nature never o'er octavo peace Philadelphia Philip Freneau philosopher poem poet political preached present President printed published racter Revolution Rhode Island salt-box says sent sermons Society song soon soul South Carolina spirit sweet thee things thou thought tion town truth verses Virginia virtue visited volume Washington Whig William writings written wrote Yale College York Popular passagesPage 202 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Page 185 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore. Page 169 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads, and noblest hearts. Page 245 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. Page 356 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. Page 28 - There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good. Page 245 - ... scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example. Page 170 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Page 358 - For her my tears shall fall ; For her my prayers ascend ; To her my cares and toils be given, Till toils and cares shall end. Page 83 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. References from web pagesEvert A. Duyckinck (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878 and George L ... Cyclopaedia of American Literature (work by Duyckinck ... Kenneth M. Roemer - The Multi-Missionary Eleanor Roosevelt of ... The Ideological Function of Illustrations in American Literary ... JSTOR: Francis Knapp: A Red Herring in Colonial Poetry Brackenridge, Hugh Henry CAROLINE HOWARD GILMAN (1794 – 1888) A Pragmatic Defense of Source Study: Melville's "Borrowings" from ... The Cambridge History of American Literature/Book II/Chapter VII ... Guide to the Duyckinck family papers Bibliographic information
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