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His wife "ruled the roost," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.
Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
His [the author's] renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is—no man knows what a ministering angel she is—until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
The setting sun as usual shed a melancholy effulgence on the ruddy towers of the Alhambra.
The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
As I sat on a sunny bank
On Christmas day in the morning
I spied three ships come sailing in.
My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
They who drink beer will think beer.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
As the dove will clasp its wings to its side, and cover and conceal the arrow that is preying on its vitals, so it is in the nature of women to hide from the world the pangs of wounded affection.
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
Tales of a Traveler (1824)
How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.
Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? — No — no, ‘tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.