Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Band 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES . A LEC- TURE BEFORE THE BOSTON MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION , FEBRUARY 17 , 1847 . . 199-302 FAME AND GLORY . AN ORATION BEFORE THE LITE- RARY SOCIETIES OF AMHERST COLLEGE , AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY , AUGUST ...
... SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES . A LEC- TURE BEFORE THE BOSTON MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION , FEBRUARY 17 , 1847 . . 199-302 FAME AND GLORY . AN ORATION BEFORE THE LITE- RARY SOCIETIES OF AMHERST COLLEGE , AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY , AUGUST ...
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... slavery and to War . There are yet other special auguries of this great change , auspicating , in the natural Progress of Man , the abandonment of all international Preparations for War . To these I allude briefly , but with a deep ...
... slavery and to War . There are yet other special auguries of this great change , auspicating , in the natural Progress of Man , the abandonment of all international Preparations for War . To these I allude briefly , but with a deep ...
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... Slavery and War . Fain would I pass these by , on this occasion ; but not to speak of them would be to present a portrait from which the most distinctive features had been carefully removed . And , first , as to Slavery . To this 182 ...
... Slavery and War . Fain would I pass these by , on this occasion ; but not to speak of them would be to present a portrait from which the most distinctive features had been carefully removed . And , first , as to Slavery . To this 182 ...
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... Slavery , the most extensive treatise on any subject from his pen . Other publications followed , down to the close of his life , among which was a prophetic letter , addressed to Henry Clay , against the annexation of Texas , on the ...
... Slavery , the most extensive treatise on any subject from his pen . Other publications followed , down to the close of his life , among which was a prophetic letter , addressed to Henry Clay , against the annexation of Texas , on the ...
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... slavery ; poverty sooner than slavery . " But while he exhibited this institution , in the blackest colors of reprobation , as unhuman , unjust , unchristian , unworthy of an age of light and of a republic professing freedom , his ...
... slavery ; poverty sooner than slavery . " But while he exhibited this institution , in the blackest colors of reprobation , as unhuman , unjust , unchristian , unworthy of an age of light and of a republic professing freedom , his ...
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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.