The True Grandeur of Nations: An Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845Smith, 1846 - 104 páginas |
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... important of these is the prejudice to a certain extent in its favour founded on the belief in its necessity . The consciences of all good men condemn it as a crime , a sin ; even the soldier , whose profession it is , confesses that it ...
... important of these is the prejudice to a certain extent in its favour founded on the belief in its necessity . The consciences of all good men condemn it as a crime , a sin ; even the soldier , whose profession it is , confesses that it ...
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... 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 , not only the Fathers of the church held it unlawful for Christians to bear arms ...
... 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 , not only the Fathers of the church held it unlawful for Christians to bear arms ...
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... importance to ourselves ; this , when the individual is clearly the ob- ject of his own feeling , is called selfishness . But when under the name of patriotism , each individual indulges himself in vanity , in pride , in ambition , in ...
... importance to ourselves ; this , when the individual is clearly the ob- ject of his own feeling , is called selfishness . But when under the name of patriotism , each individual indulges himself in vanity , in pride , in ambition , in ...
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... importance ; perhaps it is more important than all . It is at once cause and effect ; the cause of much of the feeling in favour of war , and the effect of this feeling . I refer to the costly preparations for war in time of peace . I ...
... importance ; perhaps it is more important than all . It is at once cause and effect ; the cause of much of the feeling in favour of war , and the effect of this feeling . I refer to the costly preparations for war in time of peace . I ...
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... important statistics , makes it upward of three millions . The annual expense of supporting a soldier differs in different countries . In Austria it is about 130 dollars ; in France 146 dollars ; in Prussia nearly 200 dollars , and in ...
... important statistics , makes it upward of three millions . The annual expense of supporting a soldier differs in different countries . In Austria it is about 130 dollars ; in France 146 dollars ; in Prussia nearly 200 dollars , and in ...
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Página 50 - 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 95 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Página 70 - MY FRIENDS — There is one great God and power that hath made the world and all things therein, to whom you and I, and all people owe their being and well-being, and to whom you and I must one day give an account for all that we do in the world. This great God hath written his law in...
Página 23 - 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 100 - 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 32 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Página 24 - 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. 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 peace and joy.
Página 70 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 11 - Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos...
Página 75 - Peace, receive unwonted admiration when we discern them in war, — like violets shedding their perfume on the perilous edge of the precipice, beyond the smiling borders of civilization. God be praised for all the examples of magnanimous virtue which he has vouchsafed to mankind ! God be praised that the Roman Emperor, about to start on a distant expedition of war, encompassed by squadrons of cavalry and by golden eagles...