Word: meres
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...outline for a constitution, sending it back to Williamsburg with his mentor, Lawyer George Wythe. By the time Wythe got there, however, the many arguments over Mason's draft had finally been settled. Chairman Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished lawyer, said that the members "could not, from mere lassitude, have been induced to open the instrument again." But they did like Jefferson's preamble, which contains many of the same ideas that Jefferson has included in his Declaration of Independence, so they attached that to Mason's constitution and approved it on June...
...about one-third of the vote. Its speakers have opposed the King's policy almost every day during the debates of the last session. Inveighing against the "cruel civil war," 19 Lords signed a dissenting petition last October. Said they: "We [shall not] be able to preserve by mere force that vast continent and that growing multitude of resolute freemen who inhabit it, even if that or any other country was worth governing against the inclination of all its inhabitants." With typical wit, Fox made the same argument to Lord North in the House of Commons: "Lord Chatham [government...
...meandered from Charles Town, South Carolina, to Jacksonburg, Florida, and back to Savannah, Georgia, with a number of exploratory side trips in between. Although the scientific descriptions in his journals can make for dull reading-some entries are mere lists of as many as 57 plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure...
Being alone and unprotected in the wilds does pose a few hazards, however. In Florida Bartram went through one hurricane so strong that huge liveoak branches flew about in the air as if they were mere "leaves and stubble." Bartram also records that he has met venomous snakes: the "bastard rattle snake" and the "large and horrid" moccasin, which has a bite that is "always incurable." He has seen wolves, bears and wildcats too, but to date the only creature that has actually threatened his life is the Florida alligator...
...rent asunder, Edward Gibbon has produced an eloquent and authoritative account of the ruin of Imperial Rome. This is somewhat surprising, since Gibbon, 39, an inconspicuous Member of Parliament, has previously written only some brief essays and two minor volumes of literary criticism. Yet his new work is not mere history but high tragedy, as the course of Rome's decay is hurried forward by fools and villains, and only briefly impeded by the strivings of worthy...