the numerous publick assemblies, so many schools for learning the art of
speaking. The eloquence in Congress. Our language not patrimonial,
but maternal, by a just discrimination in forming the word to describe it.
The vernacular. The eloquence of our early ages. A sketch of a few of
our orators of a later period. Patrick Henry, Mr. Madison, John Adams,
Alexander Hamilton, Gouberneur Morris, Fisher Ames, Samuel Phillips,
Samuel Dexter, Pinckney; with attempts to mark the style of each as far
as a slight sketch would convey their different manners. - - 209
LECTURE XIII.
Our military character. The wars the colonies were engaged in. Character
of King Philip . Exploit of Mrs. Duston . The attack on Norridgewock.
Lovewell's fight. The sufferings of Virginia. The numerous attacks or
preparations for attack on Canada . The affair of Louisbourg. The suc-
ceeding events. Braddock's defeat. Johnson 's fight. Montcalm, on Lake
George. The Indian Chief Hendrick . Shirley. Abercrombie , Lord
Howe . Amherst , Wolfe . The close of that war. The revolutionary war.
The people loyal; the pangs of separation, the awful opening of the great
drama of the revolution. The battle of Bunker Hill. Death of Warren .
The uses of the blood spilt. The necessity of being provided for war to
prevent it 227
LECTURE XIV.
Washington 's first appearance at the head of the army. The veneration be was
held in. The expedition to Quebeck, daring and hazardous. Washington 's
character developed at the battle of Trenton and Princeton. The taking
of Burgoyne. A sketch of him. The battles which followed as showing
their bearing upon events, and as showing the character of the American
people. The debt the present generation owe the past. How the hero should
be rewarded when living, and honoured when dead. What was prepared to
be done, to perpetuate the memory of Washington . Hale , the martyr.
Pulaski. Kosciusko. L'Enfant. Daniel Boone. West Point. 243
LECTURE XV.
The naval character of out country. Its earliest beginnings. The naval
force at the capture of Louisbourg, as taken from ancient documents. The
exertion for a naval force in Massachusetts. In Congress. Washington 's
prompt conduct in regard to captures. The great success of the American
navy. The probable number of vessels captured. A few of our naval
heroes of that age mentioned. The close of this war. The resuscitation
of the navy arising from commercial enterprise. The proceedings in Con-
gress, 1798 . The quasi, war of 1798 . The doings of our navy at that
time. Truxton , Shaw , and others. The reduction of the navy in 1801 .
Its immediate increase for the war of Tripoli. Remarks upon that; some
of those distinguished mentioned. The certainty of our continuing to be a
maritime people, and keeping up a navy, drawn from the deep rooted par-
tiality seen for this kind of defence in every expression of publick senti-
ment 266
Postscript. 286
Appendix. 289
Lectures on American Literature (1829)
Author:
Knapp
Copyright:
1829
Book Type:
A History of American Literature
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