The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 12Lee and Shepard, 1877 |
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... Future , the immense continent stretched by God between the Atlantic and Pacific , where mankind may plant , essay , and resolve all social prob- lems . [ Loud cheers . ] Europe has to decide whether she will confound herself with Asia ...
... Future , the immense continent stretched by God between the Atlantic and Pacific , where mankind may plant , essay , and resolve all social prob- lems . [ Loud cheers . ] Europe has to decide whether she will confound herself with Asia ...
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... future history . If the Golden Age is before , and not behind , as is now happily the prevailing faith , then indeed must America share , at least , if it does not monopolize , the promised good . Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492 ...
... future history . If the Golden Age is before , and not behind , as is now happily the prevailing faith , then indeed must America share , at least , if it does not monopolize , the promised good . Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492 ...
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... future of America and the vast unfold- ing of our continent . They will have a lesson also . Seeing what has been fulfilled , we may better judge what to expect . I shall set them forth in the order of time , prefacing each prediction ...
... future of America and the vast unfold- ing of our continent . They will have a lesson also . Seeing what has been fulfilled , we may better judge what to expect . I shall set them forth in the order of time , prefacing each prediction ...
Pagina 10
... future . Second - sight is little more than clearness of sight . Milton tells us that " Old experience doth attain To something like prophetic strain . " Sometimes this strain is attained even in youth . But here Genius with divine ...
... future . Second - sight is little more than clearness of sight . Milton tells us that " Old experience doth attain To something like prophetic strain . " Sometimes this strain is attained even in youth . But here Genius with divine ...
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... Future State of Several Nations , " where the famous author " plainly discovers his expectation to be the same with that entertained lately with more confidence by Dr. Berkeley , that America will be the seat of the fifth em- pire ...
... Future State of Several Nations , " where the famous author " plainly discovers his expectation to be the same with that entertained lately with more confidence by Dr. Berkeley , that America will be the seat of the fifth em- pire ...
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Pagina 60 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Pagina 60 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Pagina 11 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Pagina 28 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Pagina 244 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Pagina 216 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Pagina 399 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Pagina 142 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Pagina 399 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Pagina 60 - ... of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means ; and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, — which I trust in God we shall not.