Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volumen1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... invoked only as a Trial of Right . But it forms no part of my purpose to consider indi- vidual Wars in the Past , except so far as necessary by VOL . 1 . 2 way of example . My aim is above this . THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . 17.
... invoked only as a Trial of Right . But it forms no part of my purpose to consider indi- vidual Wars in the Past , except so far as necessary by VOL . 1 . 2 way of example . My aim is above this . THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS . 17.
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Charles Sumner. way of example . My aim is above this . I wish to expose the irrational , cruel , and impious enormity of the whole custom of War , as sanctioned by the Law of Nations . On this account I resort to that supreme law , for ...
Charles Sumner. way of example . My aim is above this . I wish to expose the irrational , cruel , and impious enormity of the whole custom of War , as sanctioned by the Law of Nations . On this account I resort to that supreme law , for ...
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... example for a Christian prince or a Christian people , - a model of True Greatness . He was of conscience all - compact , subject- ing all that he did to the single and exclusive test of moral rectitude , disregarding all considerations ...
... example for a Christian prince or a Christian people , - a model of True Greatness . He was of conscience all - compact , subject- ing all that he did to the single and exclusive test of moral rectitude , disregarding all considerations ...
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... example , his influence , and his express intercession . He treated with many of the great vassals of the crown , and induced them to renounce this unnatural usage . Though for many years later , France in some parts continued to be ...
... example , his influence , and his express intercession . He treated with many of the great vassals of the crown , and induced them to renounce this unnatural usage . Though for many years later , France in some parts continued to be ...
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... example , often on an extended scale . But it cannot be urged in our day , that we are to look for a standard of duty in the conduct of vain , mistaken , fallible man . It is not in the power of man , by any subtle alchemy , to ...
... example , often on an extended scale . But it cannot be urged in our day , that we are to look for a standard of duty in the conduct of vain , mistaken , fallible man . It is not in the power of man , by any subtle alchemy , to ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 116 - This little State," says Oldmixon, " subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a Militia for its defence.