Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Band 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... THEIR ANNIVERSARY , AUGUST 11 , 1847 • 303-358 THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS . AN ORATION BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF UNION COLLEGE , SCHENECTADY , JULY 25 , 1848 • 359-410 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . AN ORA- TION DELIVERED.
... THEIR ANNIVERSARY , AUGUST 11 , 1847 • 303-358 THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS . AN ORATION BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF UNION COLLEGE , SCHENECTADY , JULY 25 , 1848 • 359-410 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . AN ORA- TION DELIVERED.
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... progress of opinion . This custom , as a part of the common law of England , was par- tially restrained by Henry II . , and rebuked at a later day by Elizabeth . But though it fell into desue- tude , quietly overruled by the enlightened ...
... progress of opinion . This custom , as a part of the common law of England , was par- tially restrained by Henry II . , and rebuked at a later day by Elizabeth . But though it fell into desue- tude , quietly overruled by the enlightened ...
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... progress of a quarrel to a duel , through the seven degrees of Touchstone , in As You Like it . But the degradation , in which the law of honor has its origin , may be best illustrated by an authentic incident from the life of its most ...
... progress of a quarrel to a duel , through the seven degrees of Touchstone , in As You Like it . But the degradation , in which the law of honor has its origin , may be best illustrated by an authentic incident from the life of its most ...
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... Progress of Man , points with unerring finger to that destiny of True Grandeur , when Nations , like individuals - disowning War as a proper Arbiter of Justice shall abandon the oppressive apparatus of Armies , Navies and Fortifi ...
... Progress of Man , points with unerring finger to that destiny of True Grandeur , when Nations , like individuals - disowning War as a proper Arbiter of Justice shall abandon the oppressive apparatus of Armies , Navies and Fortifi ...
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... progress of society in modern Europe , we find that the odious system of private quarrels , of hostile meetings even in the street , continued so long as men persevered in the habit of wearing arms . Innu- merable families were thinned ...
... progress of society in modern Europe , we find that the odious system of private quarrels , of hostile meetings even in the street , continued so long as men persevered in the habit of wearing arms . Innu- merable families were thinned ...
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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.