Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - 637 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... ever be the models of all true popular eloquence , and of which we may say , in his own words , " Time itself seems to be the noblest witness to their glory , -a series of so many years hath now passed away , OF EDUCATED MEN . 21.
... ever be the models of all true popular eloquence , and of which we may say , in his own words , " Time itself seems to be the noblest witness to their glory , -a series of so many years hath now passed away , OF EDUCATED MEN . 21.
Pagina 43
... witness of all - judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed , Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed . " And more especially are such deeper views of responsibility , and such loftier ideas of a true and honest fame , needed ...
... witness of all - judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed , Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed . " And more especially are such deeper views of responsibility , and such loftier ideas of a true and honest fame , needed ...
Pagina 50
... witness to you , as you will bear witness in our place hereafter to those who shall succeed you , that there is not one of us , from the most success- ful to the most unfortunate of us all , from him who , having received ten talents ...
... witness to you , as you will bear witness in our place hereafter to those who shall succeed you , that there is not one of us , from the most success- ful to the most unfortunate of us all , from him who , having received ten talents ...
Pagina 88
... witness its results ; could they have seen the arms of America finally vic- torious , and the stars and stripes lifted at last in triumph to the sky , to float evermore over a great and glorious Republic ! Let me not fail to add ...
... witness its results ; could they have seen the arms of America finally vic- torious , and the stars and stripes lifted at last in triumph to the sky , to float evermore over a great and glorious Republic ! Let me not fail to add ...
Pagina 96
... witness to it ! That would be marching backwards 1900 years at a stride ! Heaven forbid that we should be called on in these days to go behind the Christian era for our examples , or to go back of the Gospel pages for our precepts ! Ah ...
... witness to it ! That would be marching backwards 1900 years at a stride ! Heaven forbid that we should be called on in these days to go behind the Christian era for our examples , or to go back of the Gospel pages for our precepts ! Ah ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 635 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Pagina 71 - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?
Pagina 289 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Pagina 328 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
Pagina 573 - ... his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Pagina 217 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Pagina 446 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Pagina 87 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Pagina 648 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Pagina 280 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.