The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include "Capital Lawes" providing a death penalty for any c...hild over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will keep America moving forward, always forward--for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of l...ight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, a capital ship for an ocean trip, Was the Walloping Window Blind;... No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior... service. In God, every end is converted into new means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall never love England till she sues to us for help; and, in the meantime, the fewer triumphs she obtains, the better for all ...the parties. An Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character; he does not lose his dignity, but merely comes to a proper conceit of himself.... I seem to myself like a spy or a traitor, when I meet their eyes, and am conscious that I neither hope nor fear in sympathy with them, although (unless they detect me for an American by my aspect) they look at me in full confidence of sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King--my republican feelings and p...rinciples forbid it--the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild,... or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Professor Eucalyptus said, "The search For reality is as momentous as... The search for god." It is the philosopher's search For an interior made exterior And the poet's search for the same exterior made Interior: breathless things broodingly abreath....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »