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| The General History of Virginia |
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| A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
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| The Wonders of the Invisible World |
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| Arguments against Writs of Assistance |
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| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
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| Oration on the Boston Massacre |
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| The Way to Wealth (Poor Richard's Almanac) |
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| Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention |
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| To the University Students |
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| Reply to President Washington |
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| Eulogy on George Washington |
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| The Author's Account of Himself |
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| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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| "But now was all our provision spent, the sturgeon gone, all helps abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the savages; when God, the patron of all good endeavors, in that desperate extremity so changed the hearts of the savages, that they brought such plenty of their fruits and provisions, as no man wanted." |
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| The General History of Virginia - Smith |
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| "But to conclude, Adam and Eve did first begin this innocent work to plant the earth to remain to posterity, but not without labor, trouble, and industry, etc." |
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| The General History of Virginia - Smith |
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| "Being well armed with clubs, targets, bows and arrows, they charged the English, that so kindly received them with their muskets loaded with pistol shot, that down fell their God, and divers lay sprawling on the ground; the rest fled again to the woods, and ere long sent one of their Quiyoughkasoucks to offer peace, and redeem their Okee" |
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| The General History of Virginia - Smith |
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| "But to conclude, Adam and Eve did first begin this innocent work to plant the earth to remain to posterity, but not without labor, trouble, and industry..." |
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| The General History of Virginia - Smith |
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| "There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily with grievous execrations; and did not let to tell them that he hoped to help to cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey’s end, and to make merry with what they had; and if he were by any gently reproved, he would curse and swear most bitterly. But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head, and it was astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him." |
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Of Plymouth Plantation - Bradford
Everything is governed by God's providence
PURITANISM |
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| "They also set up a maypole, drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together like so many fairies, or furies, rather; and worse practices. As if they ha anew revived and celebrated the feasts of the Roman goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of the mad Bacchanalians. Morton likewise, to show his poetry composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness, and others to the detraction and scandal of some persons, which he affixed to this idle or idol maypole." |
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| Of Plymouth Plantation - Bradford |
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| "What could now sustain them but the Spirit of God and His grace? May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: "Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity." |
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Of Plymouth Plantation - Bradford
Divine Providence
They have little but they still have each other |
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| "The inhabitants of Pasonagessit (Ma-re Mount) did devise amongst themselves to have it performed in a solemn manner with revels and merriment, after the old English custom" |
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New English Canaan - Morton
They were setting up a maypole and drinking |
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| "This harmless mirth made by young men that lived in hope to have wives brought over to them, that would save them a labor to make a voyage to fetch any over, was much distasted of the precise Separatists: that keep much ado about the tithe of mint and cummin..." |
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New English Canaan - Morton
Mocking the Pilgrims and Separatists, giving them trouble like they did the King of England |
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| "The inhabitants there were in Good hope of the subversion of the plantation at Ma-re mount and, the rather, because mine Host was a man that endeavored to advance the dignity of the Church of England, which they would labor to vilify with uncivil terms, envying against the sacred Book of Common Prayer" |
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New English Canaan - Morton
People gave him trouble like they did the King of England |
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| "After this they fell to great licentiousness and led a dissolute life, pouring out themselves into all profaneness. And Morton became Lord of Misrule, and maintained (as it were) a School of Atheism." |
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Of Plymouth Plantation - Bradford
Bradford was bothered by Morton's wasting of money, drinking excessively, and selling the Indians guns |
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| "The law of Grace or the Gospel hath some difference from the former, as in these respects. First, the law of nature was given to man in the estate of innocency; this of the gospel in the estate of regeneracy" |
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A Model of Christian Charity - Winthrop
The law of nature ended with Adam's fall. Christ brough to making the new law, expressed in the Gospels. For these people, the Bible is their Guide book. Winthrop is a Puritan --> Providence through Christianity |
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| "If any shall object that it is not possible that love should be bred or upheld without hope of requital; it is granted; but that is not our cause; for this love is always under reward." |
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| A Model of Christian Charity - Winthrop |
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| "First this love among Christians is a real thing, not imaginary..." |
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A Model of Christian Charity - Winthrop
Love thy enemy
Showing outwardly Christian |
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| "Thus Stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into Covenant with him for his work. We have taken out a commission, the Lord hath given us leave to draw our own Articles." |
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| A Model of Christian Charity - Winthrop |
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| "We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when he shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, "the Lord make it like that of NEW ENGLAND. For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill" |
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Model of Christian Charity - Winthrop
Doesn't think America is their's to take |
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| First, that the blood of so many hundred thousand souls of Protestants and Papists, spilt in the wars of present and former ages, for their respective consciences, is not required nor accepted by Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace. |
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The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
Williams
Quakers in Mass were horribly treated
Papists = Catholics |
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| Sixthly, it is the will and command of God that (since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus) a permission of the most paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or antichristian consciences and worships, be granted to all men in all nations and countries; and they are only to be fought against with that sword which is only (in soul matters) able to conquer, to wit, the sword of God's Spirit, the Word of God. |
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The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
Williams
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| Seventhly, the state of the Land of Israel, the kings and people thereof in peace and war, is proved figurative and ceremonial, and no pattern nor president for any kingdom or civil state in the world to follow. |
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The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
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| That ever I should speak or write a tittle, that tends to such an infinite liberty of conscience, is a mistake, and which I have ever disclaimed and abhorred. |
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Letter to the Town of Providence
Williams
Telling the town of providence that they should practice a religion if they CHOOSE to |
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To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings,
Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun,
For my mean Pen are too superior things;
Or how they all, or each their dates have run,
Let Poets and Historians set these forth.
My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth.
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The Prologue
Anne Bradstreet
"Mean Pen" Sarcastic tone verbal irony |
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My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings;
All this to mend, alas, no art is able,
Cause nature made it so irreparable. |
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The Prologue
Bradstreet
Sarcasm and Verbal Irony |
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits.
A Poet's Pen all scorn I should thus wrong,
For such despite they cast on female wits.
If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are.
Men have precedency and still excel;
It is but vain unjustly to wage war.
Men can do best, and Women know it well.
Preeminence in all and each is yours;
Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours.
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The Prologue
Bradstreet
FULL OF VERBAL IRONY and SARCASM |
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Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide,
When Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed,
The trees all richly clad, yet void of pride,
Were gilded o're by his rich golden head.
Their leaves and fruits seem'd painted but was true
Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hew,
Rapt were my senses at this delectable view. |
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Contemplations
Bradstreet |
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I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I,
If so much excellence abide below,
How excellent is he that dwells on high?
Whose power and beauty by his works we know.
Sure he is goodness, wisdom, glory, light,
That hath this under world so richly dight.
More Heaven than Earth was here, no winter and no night. |
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Contemplations
Bradstreet |
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Silent alone where none or saw or heard,
In pathless paths I lead my wand'ring feet.
My humble Eyes to lofty Skies I rear'd
To sing some Song my mazed Muse thought meet.
My great Creator I would magnify
That nature had thus decked liberally,
But Ah and Ah again, my imbecility! |
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Contemplations
Bradstreet
Alliteration! |
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By birth more noble than those creatures all,
Yet seems by nature and by custom curs'd,
No sooner born but grief and care makes fall
That state obliterate he had at first:
Nor youth, nor strength, nor wisdom spring again,
Nor habitations long their names retain
But in oblivion to the final day remain. |
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Contemplations
Bradstreet |
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Ye Fish which in this liquid Region 'bide
That for each season have your habitation,
Now salt, now fresh where you think best to glide
To unknown coasts to give a visitation,
In Lakes and ponds, you leave your numerous fry.
So Nature taught, and yet you know not why,
You watry folk that know not your felicity. |
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Contemplations
Bradstreet |
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Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheele compleat;
Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for mee.
Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neate,
And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to bee.
My Conversation make to be thy Reele,
And reele the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheele. |
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Then mine apparell shall display before yee
That I am Cloathd in Holy robes for glory. |
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Thou King of Terrours with thy Gastly Eyes
With Butter teeth, bare bones Grim looks likewise.
And Grizzly Hide, and clawing Tallons, fell,
Opning to Sinners Vile, Trap Door of Hell,
That on in Sin impenitently trip
The Downfall art of the infernall Pit,
Thou struckst thy teeth deep in my Lord’s blest Side:
Who dasht it out, and all its venom ‘stroyde
That now thy Poundrill shall onely dash
My Flesh and bones to bits, and Cask shall clash |
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A Fig for Thee Oh! Death
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| "The first planters of these colonies were a chosen generation of men who were first so pure as to disrelish many things which they though wanted reformation elsewhere" |
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The Wonders of the Invisible World
Mather |
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| "They are now the objecs of that very same anger and wrath of God that is expressed in the torments of Hell: and the reason why they don't go down to Hell at each moment, is not because of God, in whose power they are..." |
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards
Puritans --> Sermon given to encourage people to ask for salvation because the people assumed they would be saved... Refers to congregation, Fear of God vs. Fear of Men |
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| "Natural men's prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, don't secure em a moment. This divine Providence and universal experience does also bear testimony to." |
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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| "All Wicked men's pains and contrivance they use to escape Hell, while they continue to reject Christ, and so remain wicked men, don't secure 'em from Hell one moment. Almost every natural man that hears of Hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it..." |
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards |
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| "Brethren, the time has come when you must act for yourselves. It is an old and true saying that "if hereditary bondmen would be free..." |
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The Way to Wealth (Poor Richard's Almanac)
Franklin |
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"WHILE an intrinsic ardor prompts to write,
The muses promise to assist my pen;
'Twas not long since I left my native shore
The land of errors, and Egyptain gloom:
Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand
Brought me in safety from those dark abodes." |
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To the University Students
Phyllis Wheatley |
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Students, to you 'tis giv'n to scan the heights
Above, to traverse the ethereal space,
And mark the systems of revolving worlds.
Still more, ye sons of science ye receive
The blissful news by messengers from heav'n,
How Jesus' blood for your redemption flows.
See him with hands out-stretcht upon the cross;
Immense compassion in his bosom glows;
He hears revilers, nor resents their scorn:
What matchless mercy in the Son of God!
When the whole human race by sin had fall'n,
He deign'd to die that they might rise again,
And share with him in the sublimest skies,
Life without death, and glory without end. |
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To the University Students
Wheatley |
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Improve your privileges while they stay,
Ye pupils, and each hour redeem, that bears
Or good or bad report of you to heav'n.
Let sin, that baneful evil to the soul,
By you be shun'd, nor once remit your guard;
Suppress the deadly serpent in its egg.
Ye blooming plants of human race divine,
An Ethiop tells you 'tis your greatest foe;
Its transient sweetness turns to endless pain,
And in immense perdition sinks the soul. |
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To the University Students
Wheatley |
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| "Ye Alps audacious, thro' the Heavens that rise/ To cramp the day and hide me from the skies/ Ye Gallic flags, that o'er their heights unfurl'd/ Bear death to kings, and freedom to the world, I sing not you." |
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The Hasty Pudding
Barlow
irony/ anticlimax; builds up the reader's expectations, then swiftly lets them down
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“I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel / my morning incense, and my evening meal/ the sweets of hasty-pudding”
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| “For thee thro’ Paris that corrupted town, / how long in vain I wandered up and down / where shameless Bacchus, with his drenching hoard / cold from his cave usurps the morning board. / London is lost in smoke and steep’d in tea; / no yankey there can lisp the name of thee: / the uncouth word, a libel on the town, / would call a proclamation from the crown.” |
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The Hasty Pudding
Barlow
o – Europe cannot compare to the Americas
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| "Not so the Yankey—his abundant feast/ With simples furnished, and with plainness drest/ A numerous offspring gathers round the board/ And cheers alike the servant and the lord." |
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| "Fear not to slaver; ‘tis no deadly sin / like the free Frenchman, from your joyous chin / suspend the ready napkin; or, like me, / poise with one hand your bowl upon your knee/ Just in the zenith your wise head project/ Your full spoon, rising in a line direct/ Bold as a bucket, heeds no drops that fall/ The wide mouth'd bowl will surely catch them all." |
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"But most to me, whose heart and palate chaste
Preserve my pure hereditary taste" |
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"To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And gentle sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware." |
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Thanatopsis
Bryant
Stoic tone about death, comes to life... sense of Nature as a healing/sacred place |
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Yet not to thy eternal resting place
Shalt thou retire alone--nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
, With patriarchs of the infant world--with kings
The powerful of the earth--the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre. |
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And millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep--the dead reign there alone.--
So shalt thou rest--and what if thou shalt fall
Unnoticed by the living--and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe
Will share thy destiny. |
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So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, that moves
To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death |
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| What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American. |
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What is an American
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| I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. |
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Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention
Franklin
Not everyone will agree here, but if they do not compromise they will look weak to the British |
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| "The Roman Catholic church is infallible, and the Church of England is never in the Wrong" |
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Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention
Franklin |
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| For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. |
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Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention
Franklin |
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| On the whole, Sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument. |
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Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention
Franklin |
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"Cease, Sons of America, lamenting our separation. Go on, and confirm by your wisdom the fruits of our joint councils, joint efforts, and common dangers. Reverence religion; diffuse knowledge throughout your land; patronize the arts and sciences; let liberty and order be inseparable companions; control party spirit, the bane of free government; observe good faith to, and cultivate peace with all nations; shut up every avenue to foreign influence; contract rather than extend national connection; rely on yourselves only: be American in thought and deed. Thus will you give immortality to that union, which was the constant object of my terrestrial labors; thus will you preserve undisturbed to the latest posterity the felicity of a people to me most dear; and thus will you supply (if my happiness is now aught to you) the only vacancy in the round of pure bliss high Heaven bestows."
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Eulogy on President Washington
Lee |
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| "The custom which commemorates in rejoicing the anniversary of the national independence of these states, has its origin in a human feeling, amiable in its nature, and beneficial under proper direction, in its indulgence." |
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Fourth of July Address
Wright |
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| There is, in the institutions of this country, one principle, which, had they no other excellence, would secure to them the preference over those of all other countries. I mean, and some devout patriots will start, I mean the principles of change. |
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4th of July Address
Wright |
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| Here, then, is the great beauty of American government. The simple machinery of representation carried through all its parts, gives facility for its being moulded at will to fit with the knowledge of the age. If imperfect in any or all of its parts, it bears within it a perfect principle - the principle of improvement. |
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4th of July Address
Wright |
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| [H]e begged of them his life, promising them money (as they told me) but they would not hearken to him but knocked him in head, and stripped him naked, and split open his bowels” |
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| “I have seen the extreme vanity of this world: One hour I have been in health, and wealthy, wanting nothing. But the next hour in sickness and wounds, and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction” |
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| “Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it. When I lived in prosperity … and yet seeing many … under many trials and afflictions … I should sometimes be jealous lest I should have my portion in this life” |
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| “Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell” |
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| “Thus were we butchered by those merciless heathen, standing amazed, with the blood running down to our heels” |
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| Some in our house were fighting for their lives, others wallowing in their blood, the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock un on the head, if we stirred out” |
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