| John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 580 pages
...annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men, in this respect, should be, once a year, "Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return." This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which... | |
| Thomas Paine - History - 2004 - 260 pages
...annual décrions end, there slavery begins." THESE great men, in this respect, should be, once a year, "Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return."1 This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without... | |
| Charles Schaefer - 2005 - 306 pages
...still, the general good. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again; All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we...breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. Nothing is foreign: parts relate to whole; One... | |
| William A. Cohen, Ryan Johnson - History - 2005 - 317 pages
...in Pope's "Essay on Man": See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply (By turns we...breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. Nothing is foreign: Parts relate to whole. One... | |
| John Hunt - 2006 - 500 pages
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