The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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9934 as brother or as a protector 9935 (Boston about the size of Rapallo) 9936 scarce 16,000, 9937 habits of freedom now formed 9938 even among those who scarcely got so far as analysis 9939 so about 9 o'c in the morning Lard Narf wuz bein' impassible 9940 was a light fall of snow in Bastun, in King St. 9941 and the 29th Styschire in Brattle St 9942 Murray's barracks, and in this case was a 9943 barber's boy ragging the sentinel 9944 so Capn Preston etc/ 9945 lower order with billets of wood and 'just roving' 9946 force in fact of a right sez Chawles Fwancis 9947 at same time, and in Louses of Parleymoot ... 9948 so fatal a precision of aim, 9949 sojers aiming?? 9950 Gent standing in his doorway got 2 balls in the arm 9951 and five deaders 'never Cadmus ...' etc 9952 was more pregnant 9953 patriots need legal advisor 9954 measures involvin' pro-fessional knowl-edge 9955 BE IT ENACTED / guv-nor council an' house of assembly 9956 (Blaydon objectin' to form ov these doggymints) 9957 Encourage arts commerce an' farmin' 9958 not suggest anything on my own 9959 if ever abandoned by administration of England 9960 and outrage of the soldiery 9961 the bonds of affection be broken 9962 till then let us try cases by law IF by 9963 snowballs oystershells cinders 9964 was provocation 9965 reply was then manslaughter only
9967 unuprootable, that is, human emotions--- 9968 merely manslaughter 9969 brand 'em in hand 9970 but not hang 'em being mere human blighters 9971 common men like the rest of us 9972 subjekk to 9973 passions 9974 law not bent to wanton imagination 9975 and temper of individuals 9976 mens sine affectu 9977 that law rules 9978 that it be 9979 since affectu in 1770, Bastun. 9980 Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny. Burke 9981 disputed right to seize lands of the heathen 9982 and give it to any king, If we be feudatory 9983 parliament has no control over us 9984 We are merely 9985 under the monarch 9986 allegiance is to the king's natural person 'The Spensers' 9987 said Coke, hatched treason denying this 9988 allegiance follows natural, not politic person 9989 are we mere slaves of some other people? 9990 Mercantile temper of Britain 9991 constitution ... without appeal to higher powers unwritten 9992 VOTED 92 to 8 against Oliver 9993 i.e. against king's pay for the judges instead of 9994 having the wigs paid by the colony 9995 no jurors wd/ serve 9996 These are the stones of foundation 9997 J. A.'s reply to the Governor 9998 Impeachment of Oliver 9999 These stones we built on [Page 344] 10000 I don't receive a shilling a month, wrote Mr Adams to Abigail 10001 in seventeen 74 10002 June 7th. approve of committee from the several colonies 10003 Bowdoin, Cushing, Sam Adams, John A. and Paine (Robert) 10004 'mope, I muse, I ruminate' le 10005 personnel manque we have not men for the times 10006 Cut the overhead my dear wife and keep yr/ eye on the dairy 10007 non importation, non eating, non export, all bugwash 10008 but until they have proved it 10009 in experiment 10010 no use in telling 'em. 10011 Local legislation / that is basic / 10012 we wd. consent in matters of empire trade, It is 10013 by no means essential to trade with foreign nations at all 10014 as sez Chas Francis, China and Japan have proved it 10015 weekly in Boston Gazette from '74 until Lexington 10016 wrote Novanglus, then shooting started 10017 allus them as putts off taking a side 10018 and lastly in superintending the preparation of 10019 bills of credit, to serve as dollars durin' the struggle 10020 then moved for a navee 10021 which he got, after some ridicule 10022 Guided pubk mind in formation of state constitutions 10023 e.g. N. York and N. Carolina 10024 retain what experience has found good, 10025 central authority, war, trade, and disputes between states 10026 republican jealousy which seeks to cut off all power 10027 from fear of of abuses does 10028 quite as much harm as a despotism 10029 9th Feb to end of that year probably very laborious 10030 Birth of a Nation 10031 privateers not independence, what is? 10032 sovereign state 10033 acknowledged of nations and all that 10034 sovreign state and all that
10036 when his Brit. majesty lords commons have excluded from 10037 crown protection 10038 May 12th, 'as 12 months ago shd/ have been' 10039 regards independency being moved and accepted June 7th 10040 spies and persons counterfeiting---or abetting in same--- 10041 our continental bills of credit 10042 or knowingly passing the same to be punished 10043 no word, orationem, probably not elegantissimam 10044 Routledge was elegant 10045 'said nothing not hackneyed six months before' 10046 wrote J. A. to his wife 10047 I said nothing etc/ letter to Chase from John Adams 10048 the people are addicted, as well as the great, to corruption 10049 Providence in which, unfashionable as the faith is, I believe 10050 Schicksal, sagt der Führer 10051 with pomp bells bonfires on the 2nd day of July 10052 than any social community has ever yet carried out 10053 reasonable act only by its geography 10054 INadequate concession by England, 10055 always too late (sero) 10056 Britain never in season, reciprocation by trade 10057 Cavalier, sentiment rather than principle 10058 TO serve liberty at a higher rate than tyrants wd/ pay 'em 10059 you shd/ have numbered yr/ regiments, you never 10060 send me 10061 accounts e.g. of guns, numbers, their weight of metal 10062 I never know of what size (frigates etc/) 10063 Impassible moderation of Washington 10064 saved us by stoppin' catfights between officers 10065 For proportional representation--- 10066 Clearest head in the Congress 10067 (John's was) 10068 THUMON 10069 we want one man of integrity in that embassy
10071 the ethics, so called, of Franklin 10072 IF moral analysis 10073 be not the purpose of historical writing ... 10074 Leyden Gazette, Magazine Politique Hollandais, Calkoen, 10075 Amsterdam bankers, directed to Mr A. by Gen. Washington 10076 (Cornwallis' surrender) 10077 De Ruyter still cherished memories of Dutch freedom 10078 doivent tousjours crier la Liberté,---amis de la France shd/ 10079 remarked Flassans 10080 and especially the consonance of Van Capellen 10081 personal visits to deputies at der Haag 10082 Leyden, Harlem, Zwol were petitions 10083 Zeland, Overyssel, Gronye, Utrecht and Guilderland 10084 so on the 19th of April 10085 John got his answer and recognition, categoric 10086 Mr Adams has demanded a categorical answer 10087 for the U.S.N.A. letters of credence / we say that he is 10088 to be now 10089 admitted as envoy 1782 Birth of a Nation 10090 corps diplomatique 10091 His literary connections sans which was no opening 10092 a stranger to language and manners so in his correspondence 10093 with 10094 Dumas, without money, friends, against intrigue 10095 to pecuniary advances 10096 in fact from Willink, van Staphorst and Fynje 10097 5,000,000 guilders to maintain our overstrained credit 10098 till 1788 relations 10099 His relations with bankers in Amsterdam 10100 in October a treaty of commerce, by no arts or disguises 10101 no flatteries, no corruptions 10102 who to the age of 40 years 10103 had scarce crossed the edge of his province [Page 347] 10104 transferred to Adam Street in the Adelphi 10105 suspecting the post boy of humour in taking him there 10106 Magazines, daily pamphlets in hands of men of no character 10107 in fact one bookseller said to me: can get 'em at a guinea a day 10108 to write pro or con anything. Hired! 10109 Found archery still being practiced 10110 Credit till I returned to America 10111 Ice, broken ice, icy water 10112 500 miles on a trotting horse in dead winter 10113 but never as on that journey to Holland 10114 (England to Holland) 10115 Struck down our men, shattered our mainmast 10116 never as on that going to Amsterdam, 10117 fundamentals in critical moments 10118 literature and philosophy are the rage in even 10119 fashionable circles 10120 and Frederick's treaty of commerce 10121 toward mitigation of maritime law 10122 considerably in advance of world standards 10123 philanthropy not wholly free from suspicion that 10124 the new states cd/ profit 10125 The Duke said that John wd/ be stared at, 10126 to make gain out of neighbor's troubles 10127 secondary misfortune of Britain. 10128 AS of a demonstration in Euclid: 10129 system of government 10130 Immediacy: in order to be of any effect 10131 perceive taste and elegance are the cry 10132 which I have not 10133 Libertatem Amicitiam Fidem 10134 a new power arose, that of fund holders 10135 fond of rotation so that to remove 10136 their abuse from me to the President (Washington) 10137 TO be punctual, to be confined to my seat 10138 (over the Senate)
10140 to hear nothing said, to say and DO nothing 10141 borrow for trading very unmercantile 10142 by thought, word, never encourage a war ... 10143 horror they are in lest peace shd/ continue 10144 will accumulate perpetual DEBT 10145 leading to yet more revolutions 10146 He (Adet) announced to the President the entire 10147 annihilation of factions in France (18 June '95) 10148 He (Jay) returned yesterday to N. York 10149 very sociable and in fine spirits 10150 no Chief Justice yet named to succeed him 10151 happily he is elected before the 10152 treaty was published 10153 as factions 10154 against him wd/ have quarrelled whether right or 10155 the contrary 10156 to colour their opposition 10157 elegance of J. Q. A.'s style is admired 10158 properties of serenity in OBservation 10159 but where shall be found (1795) good men and true to fill offices 10160 Washington's cabinet posts go a-begging 10161 to four senators, and to more whom I do not know nominatim 10162 King, Henry, Cotsworth (?) and Pinckney 10163 all have refused it (similarly for the War Office) 10164 expenses here so far beyond salaries 10165 Integrity rewarded with obloquy 10166 I believe the President will retire 10167 Dangerous that President and V.P. be in opposite boxes 10168 persons highest class of ability enlisted 10169 habitually in elaborate discussions 10170 assiduously read by the people 10171 I hate to live in Philadelphy in the summer 10172 hate speeches messages addresses levees and 10173 drawingrooms
10175 (Amphion) and none wd/ ever move without money. 10176 Had I eloquence humour or irony, if Mr Jefferson be elected I 10177 believe I must put up for the House 10178 believe I 10179 might be of some use in that body, retirement 10180 (Washington's) removed all check upon 10181 parties 10182 Mr Jefferson, Mr Hamilton 10183 the latter not enjoying the confidence of the people at large 10184 to oppose Ham to Jeff wd/ be futile 10185 whereon Ham set to undercut Adams 10186 '96 till 1854 no president chosen against Pennsylvania 10187 'the old man will make a good president' remarked Mr Giles 10188 'but we shall have to check him occasion'lly' 10189 'manoeuvres that wd/ surprise you' wrote John to Abigail 10190 a love of science and letters 10191 a desire to encourage schools and academies 10192 as only means to preserve our Constitution. 10193 Elleswood administered the oath with great energy. 10194 Napoleon's conquest of Italy 10195 created a paradise for army contractors. 10196 whereon Senor Miranda 10197 was for making great conquests and Hamilton ... 10198 Talleyrand ... Mr A. not caught asleep his cabinet 10199 so that on the 18th of Feb. the senate recd/ the nomination 10200 of Murray 10201 and a communication of Talleyrand's document 10202 assuming no risk in trusting 10203 the professions of Talleyrand. 10204 Not vindictive that I can remember 10205 though I have often been wroth 10206 at any rate staved off a war 10207 roused the land to be ready 10208 a pardon for all offenders
10210 formed own view of Hamilton's game (and his friends') 10211 which wd/ certainly have tangled with Europe 10212 wont to give to his conversation 10213 full impetus of vehement will, 10214 charged course of Ham and his satellites 10215 to disappointment that they hadn't 10216 got us entangled with Britain 10217 defensive and offensive 10218 Snot, Bott, Cott left over from 10219 Washington's cabinet 10220 and as for Hamilton 10221 we may take it (my authority, ego scriptor cantilenae) 10222 that he was the Prime snot in ALL American history 10223 (11th Jan. 1938, from Rapallo) 10224 But for the clearest head in the congress 10225 1774 and thereafter 10226 pater patriae 10227 the man who at certain points 10228 made us 10229 at certain points 10230 saved us 10231 by fairness, honesty and straight moving 10232 ARRIBA ADAMS [Page 351] LXIII
10234 and the pardon of Fries 10235 25 years in office, treaties put thru and loans raised 10236 and General Pinckney, a man of honour 10237 declined to participate 10238 or even to give suspicion of having colluded 10239 deficiency in early moral foundations (Mr Hamilton's) 10240 they effect here and there simple manners 10241 true religion, morals, here flourish 10242 i.e. Washington 4th March 1801 10243 toward the newly created fount of supply (Mr Jefferson) 10244 in ardour of hostility to Mr Jefferson 10245 to overlook a good deed 10246 If Pickering cd/ mount on 10247 wd/ vote for J. Adams 10248 whose integrity not his enemies had disputed 10249 ... rights 10250 diffusing knowledge of principles 10251 maintaining justice, in registering treaty of peace 10252 changed with the times, and not 10253 forgetting what had suffered 10254 by the sedition laws 10255 Obt. svt. Chas Holt 10256 Honoured father 10257 (signed John Quincy Adams (in full) 10258 1825 (when elected) 10259 Scott's fictions and even the vigorous and exaggerated 10260 poetry of Ld/ Byron 10261 when they wd/ not read him anything else 10262 property EQUAL'D land in J. A.'s disposition 10263 From Fancy's dreams to active Virtue turn 10264 The cats thought him (Franklin) almost a catholic
10266 Presbyters thought him half presbyterian 10267 friends, sectaries, 10268 Eripuit caelo fulmen 10269 and all that to ditch a poor man fresh from the country 10270 Vol Two (as the protagonist saw it:) 10271 No books, no time, no friends 10272 Not a new idea all this week 10273 even bagpipe not disagreeable 10274 for amusement reading her (Mrs Savil) the Ars Amandi 10275 1758, around half after three, went to the Court House 10276 With Saml Quincy and Dr Gordon.... 10277 And saw the most spacious room and 10278 finest line 10279 of ladies I ever did see, Gridley 10280 enquired my method of study 10281 and gave me Reeve's advice to his nephew 10282 read a letter he wrote to Judge Leighton: follow the study 10283 rather than gain of the law, but the gain 10284 enough to keep out of the briars, So that I 10285 believe no lawyer ever did so much business 10286 for so little profit as I during the 17 years that I practised 10287 you must conquer the INSTITUTES 10288 and I began with Coke upon Littleton 10289 greek mere matter of curiosity (in the law) 10290 to ask Mr Thatcher's concurrence 10291 whole evening on original sin and the 10292 plan of the universe 10293 and lastly on law, he thinks that the country is full 10294 Van Myden editio terza design of the book is 10295 exposition 10296 [Image] 10297 of technical terms [Page 353] 10298 as of Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown. Bracton, 10299 Britten, Fleta on Glanville, must dig with my fingers 10300 as nobody will lend me or sell me a pick axe. 10301 Exercises my lungs, revives my spirits opens my pores 10302 reading Tully on Cataline quickens my circulation 10303 Ruggles grandeur in boldness of thought honour contempt 10304 of meanness 10305 was practising law and running a tavern in Sandwich 10306 died Novascotia 1788 and a tory. 10307 Read one book an hour 10308 then dine, smoke, cut wood 10309 in quella parte 10310 dove sta memora, Colonel Chandler not conscious 10311 these crude thoughts and expressions 10312 are catched up and treasured as proof of his character. 10313 Not finding them (Rhine grapes slips) in that city 10314 sends to a village 70 miles away 10315 and then sends two packets 10316 one by water and lest that miscarry, the other by post 10317 to Mr Quincy to whom he owes nothing 10318 and with whom he is but little acquainted 10319 purely for the purpose of 10320 propagating Rhine wine in these provinces 10321 (one up to Franklin) I 10322 read Timon of Athens, the manhater 10323 must be (IRA must be) aroused ere the mind be 10324 at its best 10325 la qual manda fuoco 10326 dirty and ridiculous litigations been multiplied 10327 proverb; as litigious as Braintree 10328 fraud and system of bigotry 10329 on which papal usurpations are founded, monument of priestly 10330 ambition 10331 guile wrought into system 10332 'Our constitution' 'every man his own monarch'
10334 and never failed to raise a hoarse laugh 10335 An inferior officer in Salem 10336 whose name was Cockle petitioned 10337 the justices for a Writ of Assistance 10338 to break open ships, shops, cellars and houses 10339 Mr Sewall expressed doubt of legality, 10340 Oxenbridge Thayer with Otis, 10341 a contest appeared to be opened.
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10343 Cromwell was not prudent 10344 nor honest 10345 nor laudable. 10346 Prayer: hands uplifted 10347 Solitude: a person, a NURSE 10348 plumes: is she angel or bird, is she a bird or an angel? 10349 ruffled, rumpled, rugged ... wings 10350 looks down 10351 and pities those who wear a crown 10352 meaning (query) George, Louis or Frederick? 10353 Beautiful spot, am almost wholly surrounded by water 10354 wherein Deacon (later General) Palmer 10355 has surrounded himself with a colony 10356 of glass-blowers from Germany 10357 come to undertake that work in America, 1752, 10358 his lucerne grass 10359 whereof 4 crops a year, seed he had of Gridley of Abingdon 10360 pods an odd thing, a sort of ramshorn of straw 10361 about 70 bushel of 1/4th an acre of land 10362 his potatoes 10363 sub conditione fidelitatis 10364 is it known that Oliver ever advised to lay internal taxes 10365 upon us? 10366 or solicited office of stamps? 10367 to be dragged through the town only in pageantry 10368 to be burnt on a hill, and his house broken open ... 10369 but has not the Lieutenant Governor 10370 a near relation etc/ 10371 a son etc/ 10372 in one family etc/ 10373 BY 40 towns, verbatim, their instrument
10375 paragraphs 10376 Stamp Act spread a spirit from Georgia 10377 to New Hampshire 10378 with honour, more inquisitive as to their liberties 10379 even the lowest 10380 Your courts are shut down, justice VOID 10381 I have not drawn a writ since the 1st of November 10382 if this authority be once recognized 10383 ruins America 10384 I must cut down my expenses. 10385 For my ruin as well as America's ... 10386 To renounce under tree, nay under the very branch 10387 where they hang'd him in effigy ... 10388 UNANIMOUS for Gridley, Jas Otis, J. Adams 10389 pray that the Courts may be opened 10390 (original of this is preserved) 10391 If what I wrote last night 10392 recall what Lord Bacon 10393 wrote about laws ... invisible and correspondences ... 10394 that parliament 10395 hath no authority 10396 to impose internal taxes upon us. 10397 Common Law. 1st Inst. 142 10398 Coke, to the 3rd Inst. Law is the subject's birthright 10399 Want of right and of remedy are all one. 10400 CONSTRUED that no innocent 10401 may by literal construction be 10402 damaged actus 10403 legis nulli facit injuriam 10404 Governor in council as supreme court of probate 10405 ... by more ravenous sort of ambition 10406 or avarice ... 10407 avoid as the plague 10408 tendency of the act to reduce the body of people
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