Trade and Letters: Their Journeyings Round the World. Three Discources, Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, and Published at the Request of the AssociationR. Carter & brothers, 1856 - 168 páginas |
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Página 158 - So that, beside the improvements which they receive from knowledge and the liberal arts, it is impossible but they must feel an increase of humanity, from the very habit of conversing together, and contributing to each other's pleasure and entertainment. 289 Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble chain...
Página 107 - There is the moral of all human tales ; « 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Página 165 - Let merchants, and such as are increasing cent, per cent., remember this, that worldly gain was not the end and design of the people of New England, but religion. And if any man among us make religion as twelve, and the world as thirteen, such an one hath not the spirit of a true New Englishman.
Página 34 - By mutual confidence, and mutual aid, Great deeds are done, and great discoveries made . The wise new prudence from the wise acquire And one brave hero fans another's fire.
Página 16 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Página 158 - The more these refined arts advance, the more sociable men become: nor is it possible, that, when enriched with science, and possessed of a fund of conversation, they should be contented to remain in solitude, or live with their fellow-citizens in that distant manner, which is peculiar to ignorant and barbarous nations. They flock into cities; love to receive and communicate knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture.
Página 33 - ... of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and no ray to enlighten, they assimilate and coalesce with those qualities so congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanency in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor indeed, my Lords, except where the interest of millions can be affected by the folly or the vice of an individual...
Página 165 - And if any man amongst us make Religion as twelve and the world as thirteen, let such an one know he hath neither the spirit of a true New England man nor yet of a sincere Christian.
Página 32 - Providence that all human affairs should sometimes fluctuate ; and as such, they had been found at once a protection to the people and a security to the crown; My lords, it is by the salutary repulsion of popular privilege that the power of the monarchy is supported in its sphere. Withdraw that support and it falls in ruin upon the people, but it falls in a ruin...
Página 59 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.