Speeches, LecturesJ. Redpath, 1863 - 562 pagina's |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln agitation American antislavery army believe blood Boston Carolina cause Cheers civil claim Commonwealth Congress Constitution court Daniel Webster dare disunion duty England execute Faneuil Hall fathers free speech freedom friends Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave Law Garrison Gentlemen Governor hand Harper's Ferry heart honest honor hour House human hundred idea John Brown John Quincy Adams judge justice Laughter Legislature liberty Lincoln live look Loring Lovejoy Massachusetts Mayor means meeting ment millions moral mulatto Napoleon nation negro never North party peace political President principle public opinion pulpit question race Republican right of revolution Senate Seward side Slave Power slaveholders slavery South South Carolina stand statesmen statute streets tell thought thousand tion to-day Union Virginia Washington wealth Webster William Lloyd Garrison woman word
Populaire passages
Pagina 244 - The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Pagina 369 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Pagina 99 - I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Pagina 394 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Pagina 345 - Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
Pagina 369 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
Pagina 145 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Pagina 178 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Pagina 286 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Pagina 476 - I here to tell you the story of Washington, I should take it from your hearts, — you, who think no marble white enough on which to carve the name of the Father of his Country.