Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Zväzok 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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Strana 12
... arms in the cause of their country ; and perhaps he dreams that he too may sleep , like the Great Captain of Spain , with a hundred trophies over his grave . The law of the land throws its sanction over this madness . But the contagion ...
... arms in the cause of their country ; and perhaps he dreams that he too may sleep , like the Great Captain of Spain , with a hundred trophies over his grave . The law of the land throws its sanction over this madness . But the contagion ...
Strana 13
... arms , which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor , fortitude , courage , obedience , modesty , and temperance , excites the brave man's patriotism , and is a chastening correction of the rich man's pride . " - Alas ! in the ...
... arms , which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor , fortitude , courage , obedience , modesty , and temperance , excites the brave man's patriotism , and is a chastening correction of the rich man's pride . " - Alas ! in the ...
Strana 20
... arms of his wife , he invokes the gods for a single blessing on the boy's head , " that he may excel his father , and bring home bloody spoils , his enemy being slain , and so make glad the heart of his mother ! " Similar illustrations ...
... arms of his wife , he invokes the gods for a single blessing on the boy's head , " that he may excel his father , and bring home bloody spoils , his enemy being slain , and so make glad the heart of his mother ! " Similar illustrations ...
Strana 22
... arms , " and he wantons in picturing the assaults of cities , " which , being soon gained by force , were robbed , and put to the sword without mercy , men and women and children , while the churches were burnt . " * This was in a ...
... arms , " and he wantons in picturing the assaults of cities , " which , being soon gained by force , were robbed , and put to the sword without mercy , men and women and children , while the churches were burnt . " * This was in a ...
Strana 24
... arms was followed by the storming of Badajoz , in which the same scenes were again enacted with added atrocities . Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity , brutal intemperance , savage lust ...
... arms was followed by the storming of Badajoz , in which the same scenes were again enacted with added atrocities . Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity , brutal intemperance , savage lust ...
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Strana 368 - Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
Strana 109 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel. With belted sword and spur on heel: They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Strana 81 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Strana 215 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Strana 18 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Strana 194 - Aid the dawning tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper — aid it type, — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
Strana 43 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Strana 114 - This little State," says Oldmixon, " subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a Militia for its defence.
Strana 176 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and, without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Strana 401 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.