The L.F.U. Stentor, Bände 1-2

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Seite 206 - ... shut out of view the fact, within the knowledge of all, that the public health, the public morals and the public safety, may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks; nor the fact, established by statistics accessible to every one, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country are, in some degree at least, traceable to this evil.
Seite 121 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls...
Seite 233 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Seite 185 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream ; ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause...
Seite 127 - Smiling so tranquilly, and set, so deep ! Oft doth your dreamy loveliness return, Colouring the tender shadows of my sleep With light Elysian ; for the hues that steep Your shores in melting lustre, seem to float On golden clouds from spirit-lands remote, Isles of the blest; and in our memory keep Their place with holiest harmonies : fair scene, Most loved by evening and her dewy star!
Seite 151 - Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Seite 207 - ... from citizens who are of suitable age and mentally and morally qualified for the exercise of an intelligent ballot, it should be restored by the people through the Legislatures of the several States, on such educational basis as they may deem wise.
Seite 65 - What d' ye think o' that ? Shall ! Shall take a hold on him ! That don't mean they sha'n't, does it ? No ! God's word means what it says. And therefore means no otherwise, — not in no way, shape, nor manner. Not in no way, for He saith, ' I am the way — and the truth and the life.
Seite 110 - It is idle to talk of either law or order, or liberty or religion or civilization, if these gentlemen are to carry through the reckless and chaotic schemes that they have devised. Rapine is the first object ; but rapine is not the only object. It is perfectly true that these gentlemen wish to march through rapine to...
Seite 110 - It is perfectly true that these gentlemen wish to march through rapine to disintegration and dismemberment of the Empire, and, I am sorry to say, even to the placing of different parts of the Empire in direct hostility one with the other. That is the issue in which we are engaged.

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