Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volumen1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... feel constrained to allege this seeming excuse , although its absurdity is openly attested by the fact , that it is advanced equally by each . belligerent party . But it is unreasonable and impossi- ble 16 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
... feel constrained to allege this seeming excuse , although its absurdity is openly attested by the fact , that it is advanced equally by each . belligerent party . But it is unreasonable and impossi- ble 16 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
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... feel the bitterness of parting with dear friends and kindred , whom you watch tenderly till the last golden sands are run Laws in that which is lawless ! order in disorder ! rules of wrong ! There can be only one law of War ; that is ...
... feel the bitterness of parting with dear friends and kindred , whom you watch tenderly till the last golden sands are run Laws in that which is lawless ! order in disorder ! rules of wrong ! There can be only one law of War ; that is ...
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... feeling her care , the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels and men , and creatures of what condition soever , though each in different sort and manner , yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their ...
... feeling her care , the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels and men , and creatures of what condition soever , though each in different sort and manner , yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their ...
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... feel the weak- ness of our nature and the elevation of Christian truth . It is important to observe , as an unanswerable fact of history , that for some time after the Apostles , while the lamp of Christianity burnt pure and bright ...
... feel the weak- ness of our nature and the elevation of Christian truth . It is important to observe , as an unanswerable fact of history , that for some time after the Apostles , while the lamp of Christianity burnt pure and bright ...
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... feel , beyond the force of any argument , the unworthy character of the sentiment to which this term refers . The degrading rule of honor is founded in the imagined necessity of resenting by force a supposed injury , whether by word or ...
... feel , beyond the force of any argument , the unworthy character of the sentiment to which this term refers . The degrading rule of honor is founded in the imagined necessity of resenting by force a supposed injury , whether by word or ...
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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.