Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Band 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... England both aver the determination to vindicate what is called the National Honor ; and our Government now calmly contemplates the dread Arbitrament of War , provided it cannot obtain what is called an 8 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
... England both aver the determination to vindicate what is called the National Honor ; and our Government now calmly contemplates the dread Arbitrament of War , provided it cannot obtain what is called an 8 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
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... England ? What just man would sacrifice a single human life , to bring under our rule both Texas and Oregon ? An ancient Roman , a stranger to Christian truth , touched only by the relations of fellow- countrymen , and not of fellow ...
... England ? What just man would sacrifice a single human life , to bring under our rule both Texas and Oregon ? An ancient Roman , a stranger to Christian truth , touched only by the relations of fellow- countrymen , and not of fellow ...
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... England are of this character . On the one 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 ...
... England are of this character . On the one 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 ...
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... England and the United States . The innumerable ships of the two countries , the white doves of commerce , bearing the olive of peace , would be driven from the sea , or turned from their proper purposes to be ministers of destruction ...
... England and the United States . The innumerable ships of the two countries , the white doves of commerce , bearing the olive of peace , would be driven from the sea , or turned from their proper purposes to be ministers of destruction ...
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... England , Duke of Acqui- taine , the agreement of the two princes , which he most earnestly declared to be full of indecency and rashness , hostile to the concord of Christendom , and careless of Christian blood ; and he urged upon the ...
... England , Duke of Acqui- taine , the agreement of the two princes , which he most earnestly declared to be full of indecency and rashness , hostile to the concord of Christendom , and careless of Christian blood ; and he urged upon the ...
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Seite 370 - Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
Seite 178 - 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.
Seite 83 - 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 or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Seite 111 - 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.
Seite 217 - 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...
Seite 298 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Seite 324 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Seite 20 - 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...
Seite 45 - 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...
Seite 116 - This little State," says Oldmixon, " subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a Militia for its defence.