The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He rememb...ered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This canal, which is the oldest in the country, and has even an antique look beside the more modern railroads, is fed by the Conco...rd, so that we were still floating on its familiar waters. It is so much water which the river lets for the advantage of commerce. There appeared some want of harmony in its scenery, since it was not of equal date with the woods and meadows through which it is led, and we missed the conciliatory influence of time on land and water; but in the lapse of ages, Nature will recover and indemnify herself, and gradually plant fit shrubs and flowers along its borders. Already the kingfisher sat upon a pine over the water, and the bream and pickerel swam below. Thus all works pass directly out of the hands of the architect into the hands of Nature, to be perfected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a fr...ee people, claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions ... too plainly prove a del...iberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice ...has placed them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodig...ality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my count...ry may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is his weakness to be proud: he derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surr...ound him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »