Memoir. Lectures and addresses

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Little, Brown, 1862
 

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Página 217 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Página 505 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon, and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression.
Página 224 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
Página 524 - The duty of the government, at the present moment, would seem to be to preserve, not to destroy ; to maintain the position which it has assumed ; and, for one, I shall feel it an indispensable obligation to hold it steady, as far as in my power, to that degree of protection which it has undertaken to bestow.
Página 208 - Novels. Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building up or elevating, in any shape ! The sick heart will find no healing here, the darkly struggling heart no guidance : the Heroic that is in all men no divine awakening voice.
Página 480 - ... revolutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country, and to raise his children to a condition better than his own, may my name and the name of my posterity be blotted forever from the memory of mankind ! [Mr.
Página 502 - With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame ; Men watched the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make.
Página 381 - Fair, laurelled spirits seemed to soar, Who thus in song their voices blended : "Shine, shine for ever, glorious Flame, Divinest gift of Gods to men ! From Greece thy earliest splendour came, To Greece thy ray returns again, " Take, Freedom, take thy radiant round, When dimmed, revive, when lost, return, Till not a shrine through earth be found, On which thy glories shall not burn I
Página 461 - Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States...
Página 511 - If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

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