Mercy WarrenCharles Scribner's Sons, 1896 - 317 páginas |
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Abigail Adams Adams's admiration American apprehensions Barnstable beauty Boston Braintree Britain character Colonies Cotton Mather dear death delight dramatic England expression eyes fear feel friends friendship Genius gentleman give Governor Hutchinson habit hand happy heart Hingham honor hope human husband intellectual James Otis James Warren John Adams John Otis judgment lady land less letters liberty literary lived look Macaulay Madam manner ment Mercy Otis Mercy Otis Warren Mercy Warren Milton Hill mind moral mother nation nature never patriots perhaps pleasure Plymouth political portraits printed Samuel Samuel Adams Samuel Allyne Otis seems sion social soul spirit taste tell things thought tion town virtue Warren writes Watertown wife Winslow Winthrop wish woman women words written wrote young youth
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Página 172 - A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.
Página 148 - ... has been my favorite study— I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Página 148 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Página 43 - Otis was a flame of fire; with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American Independence was then and there born.
Página 42 - That Council chamber was as respectable an apartment as the House of Commons or the House of Lords in Great Britain, in proportion, or that in the State House in Philadelphia, in which the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. In this chamber, round a great fire, were seated five judges, with Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson at their head as Chief Justice, all arrayed in their new, fresh, rich robes of scarlet English broadcloth ; in their large cambric bands and immense judicial wigs.
Página 145 - So they.lefte y' goodly & pleasante citie, which had been ther resting place near 12. years; but they knew they were pilgrimes, & looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to ye heavens, their dearest cuntrie, and quieted their spirits.
Página 156 - For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her.
Página 64 - ... behind which I have entrenched myself, neither of which can be forced. In the first place, I do not understand politics ; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you ; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in seven be devoted to religion ; in the fourth place, I am engaged in a work of infinitely greater importance : give me any subject to preach on of more consequence than the truths I bring you, and I will preach on it the next sabbath.
Página 59 - in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a. convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal...
Página 232 - Oh ! my Nora's gown for me, That floats as wild as mountain breezes, Leaving every beauty free To sink or swell as Heaven pleases. Yes, my Nora Creina, dear, My simple, graceful Nora Creina, Nature's dress Is loveliness — The dress you wear, my Nora Creina. Lesbia hath a wit...