In Memory of Carlton Edwards ...private distribution, 1863 - 272 Seiten |
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... Americans that we are known , the world over . Who asks you what state you are from , in Europe , in Africa , or in Asia ? Is he an American ? Does he belong to the United States ? Does that flag protect him ? Does he rest under the ...
... Americans that we are known , the world over . Who asks you what state you are from , in Europe , in Africa , or in Asia ? Is he an American ? Does he belong to the United States ? Does that flag protect him ? Does he rest under the ...
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... Americans at heart , the Union can not be safe . We must reject the low and groveling theory that society is a mere contract , and that its security depends only on the whims , prejudices and conflicting passions of the governed . How ...
... Americans at heart , the Union can not be safe . We must reject the low and groveling theory that society is a mere contract , and that its security depends only on the whims , prejudices and conflicting passions of the governed . How ...
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... American government was framed for the benefit of human nature , and a certain vague and dreamy humani- tarianism . Now we surmise that the founders and builders of this republic did not labor for universal human nature , in the spirit ...
... American government was framed for the benefit of human nature , and a certain vague and dreamy humani- tarianism . Now we surmise that the founders and builders of this republic did not labor for universal human nature , in the spirit ...
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... American nation can be broken like a wisp of straw , or that it can be shattered by a single blow into ruin and petty but per- haps belligerent republics ? Can these things happen to us in this epoch of an advancing civilization , and ...
... American nation can be broken like a wisp of straw , or that it can be shattered by a single blow into ruin and petty but per- haps belligerent republics ? Can these things happen to us in this epoch of an advancing civilization , and ...
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... American legislators . To make a speech which will read well in some remote locality in the interior ; to deliver an essay more ap- propriate to a quarterly review than to the halls of congress ; to talk Buncombe by the hour , or to ...
... American legislators . To make a speech which will read well in some remote locality in the interior ; to deliver an essay more ap- propriate to a quarterly review than to the halls of congress ; to talk Buncombe by the hour , or to ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 76 - THERE is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.
Seite 193 - Words used in this Code in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the word "person...
Seite 166 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Seite 81 - ... the swelling heart conceived and communicated the pure and generous purpose — when my slenderer and younger taper imbibed its borrowed light from the more matured and redundant fountain of yours.
Seite 167 - Kneel undisturbed, fair saint ! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly ; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly.
Seite 81 - ... and this soothing hope I draw from the dearest and tenderest recollections of my life, from the remembrance of those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods which we have spent with those admired and respected and beloved companions who have gone before us; — over whose ashes the most precious tears of Ireland have been shed...
Seite 24 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; Yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.
Seite 191 - Constitution, shall appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this State, or so much and such parts thereof as to the said commissioners shall seem practicable and expedient.
Seite 200 - This jurisdiction is confined to the ship; and no one ship has a right to prohibit the approach of another at sea, or to draw round her a line of territorial jurisdiction, within which no other is at liberty to intrude. Every vessel, in time of peace, has a right to consult its own safety and convenience, and to pursue its own course and business, without being disturbed, when it does not violate the rights of others.
Seite 81 - Yes, my good lord, I see you do not forget them ; I see their sacred forms passing in sad review before your memory...