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Page 83
... pride , To stem , with triumph , Gallia's crimson tide ? Alas ! no conscious breast to glory soars , Endowed , by Heaven , with more than mortal powers , * Throughout thy hapless realm , no gallant name Flings its broad radiance o'er ...
... pride , To stem , with triumph , Gallia's crimson tide ? Alas ! no conscious breast to glory soars , Endowed , by Heaven , with more than mortal powers , * Throughout thy hapless realm , no gallant name Flings its broad radiance o'er ...
Page 118
... pride as an Ameri- can , were I not to offer you some specimen of his splendid ta- lents , as an orator , a statesman , and a scholar . With this view , I will recite to you , a few paragraphs from a speech made by him in the house of ...
... pride as an Ameri- can , were I not to offer you some specimen of his splendid ta- lents , as an orator , a statesman , and a scholar . With this view , I will recite to you , a few paragraphs from a speech made by him in the house of ...
Page 130
... pride of the former , who do not by any means feel disposed to be intimate and familiar with the whites . I speak . of the nabobs of the country , who being the present lords of the soil , assume all the pompous dignity 130 MEMOIRS OF ...
... pride of the former , who do not by any means feel disposed to be intimate and familiar with the whites . I speak . of the nabobs of the country , who being the present lords of the soil , assume all the pompous dignity 130 MEMOIRS OF ...
Page 137
... pride which he at first assumed . He always showed himself disin- terested , liberal without profusion , living on the purses of others as he would have done on his own , without seeking to amass for the future , without throwing away ...
... pride which he at first assumed . He always showed himself disin- terested , liberal without profusion , living on the purses of others as he would have done on his own , without seeking to amass for the future , without throwing away ...
Page 159
... pride of heraldry abstracted from other good ? Such factitious advantages , may surely , for a while pur- chase the applause of the venal , extort adulation from servile imbecility , or impose upon credulous ambition ; but how short is ...
... pride of heraldry abstracted from other good ? Such factitious advantages , may surely , for a while pur- chase the applause of the venal , extort adulation from servile imbecility , or impose upon credulous ambition ; but how short is ...
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