Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Zväzok 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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Strana 11
... side , by an act of unjust legisla- tion , extending our power over Texas , we have en- dangered Peace with Mexico ; while on the other , by a presumptuous assertion of a disputed claim to a worthless territory beyond the Rocky ...
... side , by an act of unjust legisla- tion , extending our power over Texas , we have en- dangered Peace with Mexico ; while on the other , by a presumptuous assertion of a disputed claim to a worthless territory beyond the Rocky ...
Strana 15
... side . " ( Works , Vol . III . p . 40. ) This definition of the English philosopher has been adopted by the American jurist , Chancellor Kent , in his authoritative Commen- taries on American Law , ( Vol . I. p . 46. ) The Swiss ...
... side . " ( Works , Vol . III . p . 40. ) This definition of the English philosopher has been adopted by the American jurist , Chancellor Kent , in his authoritative Commen- taries on American Law , ( Vol . I. p . 46. ) The Swiss ...
Strana 17
... side we assert a title to Texas , which is disputed ; and on the other side , we assert a title to Oregon , which is disputed . Surely it is only according to " martial logic , " or the " flash language " of a dishonest patriotism ...
... side we assert a title to Texas , which is disputed ; and on the other side , we assert a title to Oregon , which is disputed . Surely it is only according to " martial logic , " or the " flash language " of a dishonest patriotism ...
Strana 25
... side , resound with the dismal clamors and groans of dying men . At Salamanca , long after the battle , we behold the ground strewn with the fragments of casques and cuirasses , and still blanched by the skeletons of those who fell . We ...
... side , resound with the dismal clamors and groans of dying men . At Salamanca , long after the battle , we behold the ground strewn with the fragments of casques and cuirasses , and still blanched by the skeletons of those who fell . We ...
Strana 27
... British fleet in the harbor , to force the strong defences by assault , the city is invested by a strict blockade . All communication with the country is cut off on the one side , while the harbor is THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . 27.
... British fleet in the harbor , to force the strong defences by assault , the city is invested by a strict blockade . All communication with the country is cut off on the one side , while the harbor is THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . 27.
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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.