PHILIP MORIN FRENEAU

To recommend what monarchies have done, They bring, for witness, David and his son; How one was brave, the other just and wise; And hence our plain Republics they despise; But mark how oft, to gratify their pride, The people suffered, and the people died; Though one was wise, and one Goliath slew, Kings are the choicest curse that man e’er knew!

This is the land of every joyous sound, Of liberty and life, sweet liberty! Without whose aid the noblest genius fails, And science irretrievable must die.

In a country which two hundred years ago was peopled only by savages and whose government has ... been no other than republican, it is really wonderful that there should be any polite authors at all in any line ...

This is the land of every joyous sound, Of liberty and life, sweet liberty! Without whose aid the noblest genius fails, And science irretrievable must die.

In a country which two hundred years ago was peopled only by savages and whose government has ... been no other than republican, it is really wonderful that there should be any polite authors at all in any line ...

To recommend what monarchies have done, They bring, for witness, David and his son; How one was brave, the other just and wise; And hence our plain Republics they despise; But mark how oft, to gratify their pride, The people suffered, and the people died; Though one was wise, and one Goliath slew, Kings are the choicest curse that man e’er knew!