What a prodigious growth this English race, especially the American branch of it, is having! How soon will it subdue and occupy al...l the wild parts of this continent and of the islands adjacent. No prophecy, however seemingly extravagant, as to future achievements in this way [is] likely to equal the reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The annexation to the United States of the adjacent parts of the continent both north and south, seems to be, according to the phr...ase of 1844, our "manifest destiny." I am not in favor of artificial stimulants to this tendency. But I think I see plainly that it is now for the interest of both Canada and the United States that properly and in order, and with due regard to the feelings of Great Britain, the two countries should come under one government. If it were known that we would probably pay the whole or part of the Canadian debts, or would assume to pay them, would it not stimulate the feeling in favor of annexation in Canada?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that... I never had heard the town clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn,--a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I had never seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar institutions; for it is a shire town. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. It is the law of average. Such a rule of the two diameters not only gu...ides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draw lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man's particular daily behaviors ... and where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character. Perhaps we need only to know how his shores trend and his adjacent country or circumstances, to infer his depth and concealed bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Viola. What country, friends, is this? Sea Captain. This is Illyria, lady.... Viola. And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »