Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Zväzok 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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Strana 11
... soul from a literature , whose beautiful fields have been moistened by human blood . Fain would I offer my tribute to the Father of Poetry , stand- ing with harp of immortal melody , on the misty moun- tain top of distant antiquity ; to ...
... soul from a literature , whose beautiful fields have been moistened by human blood . Fain would I offer my tribute to the Father of Poetry , stand- ing with harp of immortal melody , on the misty moun- tain top of distant antiquity ; to ...
Strana 12
... soul is taught to swell at the thought that he also is a soldier ; that his name shall be entered on the list of those who have borne arms in the cause of their country ; and perhaps he dreams that he too may sleep , like the Great ...
... soul is taught to swell at the thought that he also is a soldier ; that his name shall be entered on the list of those who have borne arms in the cause of their country ; and perhaps he dreams that he too may sleep , like the Great ...
Strana 23
... soul of Wil- berforce , which sighed " that the bloody laws of his country sent many unprepared into another world , " by capital punishment , could hail the slaughter of Water- loo , on the Sabbath that he held so holy , by which ...
... soul of Wil- berforce , which sighed " that the bloody laws of his country sent many unprepared into another world , " by capital punishment , could hail the slaughter of Water- loo , on the Sabbath that he held so holy , by which ...
Strana 29
... soul and clear judgment did not recognize the truth , that the whole custom of War is unrighteous and unlawful , and that the horrors of this siege are its natural consequence . Laws of War ! 99 At this stage the French general ...
... soul and clear judgment did not recognize the truth , that the whole custom of War is unrighteous and unlawful , and that the horrors of this siege are its natural consequence . Laws of War ! 99 At this stage the French general ...
Strana 31
... soul . Who can forget the anguish that fills the bosom and crazes the brain of Leonora , in the matchless ballad of Burger , when seeking in vain among the returning squadrons for her lover left dead on Prague's ensanguined plain ? But ...
... soul . Who can forget the anguish that fills the bosom and crazes the brain of Leonora , in the matchless ballad of Burger , when seeking in vain among the returning squadrons for her lover left dead on Prague's ensanguined plain ? But ...
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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.