A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting-House in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Britain (London, 1790).
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Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait.
I saw them go: one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet.
No Drury Lane for you to-day.
Oh let thy fear within me dwell, Thy love my footsteps guide ; That love shall vainer loves expel, That fear all fears beside.
Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh, let thy grace supply!
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.
The enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth.
When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.
Every man I met up north was my protector, and any man I ever met, if he needed my help, got it, whether it was a hot meal, nursing, mothering or whatever else he needed. After all, we pass this way only once, and it's up to us to help our …
Why child, I haven't had time for marriage. Men are a nuisance anyhow, now aren't they? They're just boys grown up.
So Britain’s monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.
But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense: "I hear a lion in the lobby roar; Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door And keep him there, or shall we let him in To try if we can turn him out again?"
What's not devoured by Time’s devouring hand? Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand?
I was one of the first in this country—I rather think I was quite the first—to hail in print the genius of Mr. Joyce, when, many years ago, he put forth a quiet little volume of short stories called " ." I saw in his bleak and bitter …
" Instinct," as said, " is a great matter "; but it is not the whole. believes so much in domination and antagonism that he seems not to believe in men and women—the first act of faith that God requires of the artist.
... , years before he died, was hidden from most of us in the mist of his own method.
fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as they plese [several lines of random punctuation marks]
World makers mankind with marbel and parchment and paper pen & ink and printers tips and Lyes upon Lyes amen and amen the world was made in six Days out of Nothing o yess o lye Now all troue Lye yess all the world over
FROM THE MUSEUM OF TIMOTHY DEXTER, ESQ. Ime the first Lord in the younited States of A mercary Now of Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it goue Now as I must be Lord there will foler many more Lords …
I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the …
Good morning, sir! I've brought you some of the old United States guns, sir!