Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Band 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... the anniversary of the Declaration of the Independence of the United States ; and that he be requested to furnish a copy for the press . Attest , - S. F. MCCLEARY , City Clerk . THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . IN obedience to an.
... the anniversary of the Declaration of the Independence of the United States ; and that he be requested to furnish a copy for the press . Attest , - S. F. MCCLEARY , City Clerk . THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . IN obedience to an.
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... United States against Great Britain in 1812 , was to ob- tain from the latter power an abandonment of her claim to search American vessels . Unrighteous as was this claim , it seems clear that War was here invoked only as a Trial of ...
... United States against Great Britain in 1812 , was to ob- tain from the latter power an abandonment of her claim to search American vessels . Unrighteous as was this claim , it seems clear that War was here invoked only as a Trial of ...
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... 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 ; the threads of ...
... 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 ; the threads of ...
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... United States have appealed to arms in vain . " * Afterwards , despair- ing of extorting from Great Britain a relinquishment of the unrighteous claim , and foreseeing only an accumu . lation of calamities from an inveterate prosecution ...
... United States have appealed to arms in vain . " * Afterwards , despair- ing of extorting from Great Britain a relinquishment of the unrighteous claim , and foreseeing only an accumu . lation of calamities from an inveterate prosecution ...
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... united . I cannot refrain from the effort to tear this iron branch of War from the golden tree of Christian truth , even though a voice come forth from the breaking bough . mans . - imperante , QUEM ADESSE BELLANTIBUS CREDUNT , 54 THE ...
... united . I cannot refrain from the effort to tear this iron branch of War from the golden tree of Christian truth , even though a voice come forth from the breaking bough . mans . - imperante , QUEM ADESSE BELLANTIBUS CREDUNT , 54 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.