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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... ship and commerce between the two nations and every individual thereof , impressing upon each citizen or subject the character of enemy . Imagine this between England and the United States . The innumerable ships of the two countries ...
... ship and commerce between the two nations and every individual thereof , impressing upon each citizen or subject the character of enemy . Imagine this between England and the United States . The innumerable ships of the two countries ...
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... ship of the line of our country . Many of you have , perhaps , pressed its deck , and observed with admiration the completeness which prevails in all its parts ; its lithe masts and complex net - work of ropes ; its thick wooden walls ...
... ship of the line of our country . Many of you have , perhaps , pressed its deck , and observed with admiration the completeness which prevails in all its parts ; its lithe masts and complex net - work of ropes ; its thick wooden walls ...
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... ships of all classes ; but deducting such as are used as convict ships , floating chapels , coal depôts , the efficient navy consists of 88 sail of the line ; 109 frigates ; 190 small frigates , corvettes , brigs , and cut- ters ...
... ships of all classes ; but deducting such as are used as convict ships , floating chapels , coal depôts , the efficient navy consists of 88 sail of the line ; 109 frigates ; 190 small frigates , corvettes , brigs , and cut- ters ...
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... ships of the line , 8 frigates , 4 sloops , 6 brigs , 7 schooners or galleys , and a number of smaller vessels ; the number of men in its service in 1839 was 4,547 . The Navy of Denmark consisted at the close of 1837 of 7 ships of the ...
... ships of the line , 8 frigates , 4 sloops , 6 brigs , 7 schooners or galleys , and a number of smaller vessels ; the number of men in its service in 1839 was 4,547 . The Navy of Denmark consisted at the close of 1837 of 7 ships of the ...
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... ship of the line , the Ohio , carrying ninety guns , finished as late as 1836 for 547,888 dollars ; repaired only two years afterwards in 1838 , for 223,012 dollars ; with an armament which has cost * Mr. Justice Story , whose various ...
... ship of the line , the Ohio , carrying ninety guns , finished as late as 1836 for 547,888 dollars ; repaired only two years afterwards in 1838 , for 223,012 dollars ; with an armament which has cost * Mr. Justice Story , whose various ...
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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...