Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Band 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... appear in the results of the great wars by which the world has been lacerated . After long struggles , in which each nation has inflicted and received incalculable injury , peace has been gladly obtained on the basis of the condition of ...
... appear in the results of the great wars by which the world has been lacerated . After long struggles , in which each nation has inflicted and received incalculable injury , peace has been gladly obtained on the basis of the condition of ...
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... appear at the appointed time before the Seneschal of Acquitaine , or , in case of defeat , if he refused to consign Sicily undisturbed to the victor . While the two champions were preparing for the lists , the Pope , Martin IV ...
... appear at the appointed time before the Seneschal of Acquitaine , or , in case of defeat , if he refused to consign Sicily undisturbed to the victor . While the two champions were preparing for the lists , the Pope , Martin IV ...
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... appear in the register of everlasting life . The Christian Church , after the first centuries of its existence , failed to discern the peculiar spiritual beauty of the faith which it professed . Like Constantine , it found new ...
... appear in the register of everlasting life . The Christian Church , after the first centuries of its existence , failed to discern the peculiar spiritual beauty of the faith which it professed . Like Constantine , it found new ...
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... appear only with its inseparable American companions , the bowie - knife , and the pistol ! Be our standard of conduct derived , not from the degradation of our nature , though it affect the sem- blance of sensibility and refinement ...
... appear only with its inseparable American companions , the bowie - knife , and the pistol ! Be our standard of conduct derived , not from the degradation of our nature , though it affect the sem- blance of sensibility and refinement ...
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... appear by a contrast with other expenditures ; the aggregate capital of all the joint stock companies in England , of ... appears that War absorbed ninety cents of every dollar that was pressed by heavy taxation from the English people ...
... appear by a contrast with other expenditures ; the aggregate capital of all the joint stock companies in England , of ... appears that War absorbed ninety cents of every dollar that was pressed by heavy taxation from the English people ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Algerine Algiers Allston American ancient antiquity Argel arms army barbarous beauty beneficent Benevolence blessed blood brothers Cæsar captives cents Cervantes Channing character Christian Christian slaves church Cicero civilization conduct confess death declared distant divine duty early earth England English Europe evil Fame Father force France freedom genius happiness heart Heaven honor human illustrations individuals influence Jurist justice knowledge labors land Laws of War learning Leibnitz literature lives Lord Lord Exmouth mankind master ment mind moral Morocco nations nature Navy orator Peace Pharsalia poet praise Progress race recognized regard religion Roman Rome sacred says scene selfish sentiment ships slavery slaves soldiers soul spirit story strife success sword Thomas Phelps tion Titian Trial by Battle triumph True Glory truth Tunis victory virtue voice War with Tripoli White Slavery words youth
Beliebte Passagen
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.